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

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.

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

Migrating Home Assistant from Raspberry Pi 400 to Raspberry Pi 500. I was worried about how the ZBT-1 (Sky Connect) would migrate and would I have issues with my devices.

The weather has now become cold enough for the central heating to kick in. This is how we are finding it so far with our new heat pump rather than gas.

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

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

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

Apple Watch - Setup Accessories Using The Home App On Your iPhone

Using Ormanäs smart light strips in Home Assistant. I am using them with the IKEA Fabrikor cabinet to display my Lego collection.

Connecting a Daikin Altherma 3 heat pump to Home Assistant. Once that is done you can send that data to Emoncms and then onto heatpumpmonitor.org

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