EcoHome Lab: Monthly meetup and skill share

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We're back after our Summer break, with many exciting things to discuss! Let us know if you've a topic or a show and tell, you'd like 10-15 minutes for?

The first up is the release of Matter 1.0 - we'll be looking at what it is, it's potential for smart home control and how to integrate it with Home Assistant.

CADs/IHDs for real-time smart meter data. A couple of our members have gotten hold of the Octopus Home Mini, they'll be discussing their experience so far. We'll also be checking out Hildebrands CADs which provide local real time data available on MQTT and showing you how to get that data into Home Assistant. If anyone has any experience with the Geo models we'd be really interested to hear about it.

This is a CarbonCo-op (http://carbon.coop/) initiative.

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Topics will include:

• Home energy monitoring.

• House energy performance assessment

• Sensors - electricity, gas, temperature, humidity, air quality...

• User interfaces, dashboards

• Smart houses and automation

• Aggregation of data sources

• Taking the power back! - Making better use of the surplus power we generate

Who is it for?

• Anyone with skills in physical electronics, web development or programming who wants to use that knowledge to reduce energy and carbon!

• There will be open space for small groups to focus on adding new sensors or hacking the user interface, there will always be a 'newbies' group for people interested in finding out more.