Solar panel performance declines over the years. I thought it might be interesting to see how mine compares. Of course weather comes into it, but hopefully this will be a useful guide.

Upgrading your smart home doesn’t have to be stressful. When Nabu Casa released the new ZBT-2 Zigbee coordinator, I migrated my entire Zigbee network from the ZBT-1 — and it was as simple as promised. With just a quick firmware update and a guided setup in Home Assistant, every device reconnected within seconds.

The statistics for our SolarPV and battery system for the month of September 2025

The statistics for our SolarPV and battery system for the month of September 2025

Fixing no sound when capturing from an Elgato 4K X

My settings for exporting my 4K videos from Final Cut Pro to YouTube

The statistics for our SolarPV and battery system for the month of August 2025

The statistics for our SolarPV and battery system for the month of July 2025

Setting up a notification when Samba Backup and native Home Assistant backups have run successfully

The statistics for our SolarPV and battery system for the month of June 2025

The statistics for our SolarPV and battery system for the month of May 2025

After a recent Home Assistant reboot one of my automation failed with this error: Zigbee_Delivery_Failed. This is how I fixed it.

The statistics for our SolarPV and battery system for the month of April 2025

Post to Mastodon from Home Assistant in 2025

Send an Home Assistant notification via M365

The statistics for our SolarPV and battery system for the month of March 2025

The statistics for our SolarPV and battery system for the month of February 2025

The statistics for our SolarPV and battery system for the month of January 2025

Why is our hot water tank losing temperature so quickly? The tank is brand new. It was installed with the new heat pump in July. It should not cool this quickly.

The statistics for our SolarPV and battery system for the month of December 2024