EcoHome Lab: Energy data in Home Assistant

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Understanding your energy usage has always been central to our work at EcoHome Lab, but moving from sensors smart meter data has made data access more complicated. We have a couple of short presentations planned already, but if you're pulling your own energy data into Home Assistant, especially via a CAD or an API we'd love to here about it.

• New Home Assistant Integration for PowerShaper Monitor - pull data direct from the Carbon Co-op smart metering service into Home Assistant.
• Consumer Access Device update - using Hildebrand CAD to get real-time usage data into Home Assistant via MQTT. We also hope to hear from others using Octopus and Geo systems.

Now in our regular monthly slot - every second Thursday of the month. A hangout for people taking control of their home energy usage and generation. We use open-source hardware and software to gain a better understanding of nergy in our homes, how to make the best use of the energy we generate and reduce energy wasted.

Catch up on some of our previous sessions and presentations.

Unless there's a specific title to the session, it means we have no scheduled speaker and it will be an open session. We welcome contributions.

This is a CarbonCo-op (http://carbon.coop/) initiative working close together with OpenEnergyMonitor (https://openenergymonitor.org).

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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!