Category: technology
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Munin Monitor Tesla Powerwall/Solar info using local API
Who this is for: Tesla Solar owners with Powerwalls, with the Powerwall on your local network on a known IP address (ie reserved IP via dhcp), and your munin software also running on your local network We’re going to use Powerwall2PVOutput to graph our tesla solar+powerwall behavior in munin.
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Monitoring Ioniq 5 / Kia EV6 EV SOC / 12 V battery with Munin
The SOC (state of charge) and the charge of the 12v battery is available in the MyHundai app. That means you can also look it up via the bluelink API. This munin plugin will poll the API (not too frequently, and NOT pulling current values from the car – to avoid 12v battery drain) and…
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We put the HA! in Home Automation
I admit it. I’ve got a Smart Home. It’s supposed to be like this: Sometimes – many times – it’s like this:
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How old are those disks, anyway?
The day after the big heat wave, I woke to a dead home server. Not good. Fortunately things eventually recovered enough to bring everything back up, but that got me thinking about the actual age of the spinning rust (the drives) and the likelihood that the consumer/home grade drives were probably due for an upgrade.
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If this then that.
This isn’t new. It’s just new to me. I’ve built similar systems myself based on this idea, but IFTTT has done a really nice job of integrating a slew of social media sites and smart phone sensors (well, location anyway) to allow for really simple automation. Besides you just have to love any service where…