If you use the Sunsynk dashboard, you know how crucial accurate energy monitoring is. We recently ran into a tricky issue after adding the Octopus EV charger,. House consumption included the heat pump. We wanted to split it out.

This is my favourite power flow card for Home AssistantFor ages, we just had raw data. We desperately wanted one clear graph showing our daily electricity costs on our smart home dashboard. Plotly was the tool, but the learning curve was real. Here’s how we finally made it work!

I’ve updated my Sunsynk Home Assistant dashboard to include our new Octopus Charge EV charger. This post explains how I moved from the compact card to the full layout and how I’m now visualising heat pump, immersion, and EV charging loads together.

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

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

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Send an Home Assistant notification via M365

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.