Category: Smart Home
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When Your Shelly Overheats: Temperature-Driven Control for Hot Water
This is a follow-up to our earlier article on Solar Hot Water Diversion with Home Assistant and Shelly: A Debugging Story. The Setup We published our solar hot water diversion automation in June. The idea was straightforward: when the solar inverter is exporting more than 3.6 kW, turn on the hot water element. When the…
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Home Assistant: Use Delay Instead of Timers for Simple Automations
The Problem: Overcomplicating a Simple Automation You want to turn something on, leave it running for a few hours, then turn it off. Easy, right? Many Home Assistant users reach for timers or complex time triggers to achieve this. But when all you need is “do A, wait, then do B”, there’s a simpler way:…
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[Solved] Adding SPM01-D2TW to home assistant. (Wifi version)
There seemed to many articles online for adding the ZigBee version, but not the WIFI one, so here it it! Prerequisites: Home assistant, with HACS (there are plenty of guides for this process that can be found online – just search google or youtube for HACS install for home assistant 😉) The key piece of…