We have a gas heating system in the basement, a fairly old one. In the living room there was a bimetal thermostat to control it and there were normal thermostats on the radiators. I already had Comet Dect radiator thermostats from my old apartment, which I could control via the Fritzbox. These are replicas of … Read more
They are on everyone’s lips and not exactly cheap, radiator fans. The fans are mounted under a radiator and turn on automatically when the radiator heats up. And they are good too, the energy efficiency is significantly higher, the room warms up faster. But since they are too expensive for me and I need a very small … Read more
I use some of these Comet WiFi thermostats from eurotronic , they are quite cheap. They were also easy to integrate into my old Telekom smart home solution. When I switched to Home Assistant, I found that there was no integration for the thermostats. So I went on a search and found information in several articles on the Internet on … Read more
I have a new toy, seriously, I want to switch some 230V devices in my basement. I got this card for that; the board has four switching relays and especially a 230V power supply on the board. But it’s a little tinkering. If you can’t or don’t want to solder, you should look for another board. The board does … Read more
Anyone who owns a house with several floors knows the problem, the simple Bluetooth devices are no longer recognized over several floors. For me, it’s simple thermometers that I read out via Bluetooth and have integrated into Home Assistant. These thermometers can be obtained for a few euros. With me, the thermometers in the attic were no … Read more
All smart home systems, such as switches, adapter sockets, smart lamps, etc. contain small computers, so-called microcontrollers. Two quite common ones are the two boards ESP32 and ESP8266.These two microcontrollers differ primarily in the built-in CPUs and the wireless capability. An ESP32 has a 2-core CPU, the 8266 only one core, both boards support WiFi, the ESP32 … Read more
I bought the wall switch from Homatic IP (HmIP-WRC2) because I want to switch a lamp with it, in this post I describe the setup. A prerequisite for the setup is a successfully installed Homatic IP CCU and the Homatic IP integration. I describe both here: Homatic IP setup . Bevore the two switches can be used, the … Read more
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Home Assist saves the data of the devices for about 20 days. If you want to evaluate data, eg temperatures, over a longer period of time, the data must be stored in another database. For this there is the InfluxDB, which can store very large amounts of data and quickly process it again for evaluations. Since each … Read more