Home energy on dabase https://dabase.com/tags/home-energy/ Recent content on dabase.com Hugo -- gohugo.io en hendry+podcast@iki.fi (Kai Hendry) hendry+podcast@iki.fi (Kai Hendry) Tue, 25 Aug 2026 22:30:51 +0100 Two Heat Pump Surprises: Cylinder Standing Loss and a −40 °C Outdoor Sensor https://dabase.com/blog/2026/heat-pump-surprises-standing-loss-and-minus-forty/ Tue, 25 Aug 2026 22:30:51 +0100 hendry+podcast@iki.fi (Kai Hendry) https://dabase.com/blog/2026/heat-pump-surprises-standing-loss-and-minus-forty/ A month into living with a Vaillant aroTHERM plus: measuring how fast the hot water cylinder cools down, and the day a power cut left the outdoor sensor reading −40 °C and the heat pump heating the house in August. Reading the Heat Pump Locally: eBUS Adapter Stick C6 and ebusd https://dabase.com/blog/2026/vaillant-ebus-adapter-ebusd/ Fri, 14 Aug 2026 11:20:00 +0100 hendry+podcast@iki.fi (Kai Hendry) https://dabase.com/blog/2026/vaillant-ebus-adapter-ebusd/ Tapping the Vaillant aroTHERM plus eBUS with an eBUS Adapter Stick C6 and ebusd, for 678 local Home Assistant entities instead of a rate-limited cloud API — including the wiring, the MQTT flag that silently breaks discovery, and a heat pump model with no config file. Our First Air-to-Water Heat Pump: Vaillant aroTHERM plus https://dabase.com/blog/2026/vaillant-arotherm-plus-heat-pump/ Wed, 22 Jul 2026 17:34:29 +0100 hendry+podcast@iki.fi (Kai Hendry) https://dabase.com/blog/2026/vaillant-arotherm-plus-heat-pump/ Notes, photos and costs from installing a Vaillant aroTHERM plus VWL 35/8.1 A air-to-water heat pump under the UK's Boiler Upgrade Scheme, plus wiring it into Home Assistant to chase cheap Octopus rates. How I Monitor My Home Energy Usage https://dabase.com/blog/2026/home-energy-monitoring/ Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:33:05 +0100 hendry+podcast@iki.fi (Kai Hendry) https://dabase.com/blog/2026/home-energy-monitoring/ A short inventory of the meters and integrations I use to monitor electricity in my house and cottage, and the garage I have yet to monitor. Darragh Power Cut https://dabase.com/blog/2024/darragh-power-cut/ Mon, 09 Dec 2024 19:07:04 +0000 hendry+podcast@iki.fi (Kai Hendry) https://dabase.com/blog/2024/darragh-power-cut/ Notes from a 47 hour power cut in Cornwall Praze Smart Meter https://dabase.com/blog/2024/smart-meter/ Tue, 26 Nov 2024 18:00:11 +0000 hendry+podcast@iki.fi (Kai Hendry) https://dabase.com/blog/2024/smart-meter/ Our meter is not in fact, smart LPG boiler upgrade wanted https://dabase.com/blog/2024/lpg-boiler-upgrade/ Sat, 23 Mar 2024 14:28:07 +0000 hendry+podcast@iki.fi (Kai Hendry) https://dabase.com/blog/2024/lpg-boiler-upgrade/ Looking to upgrade our LPG boiler to a more efficient model in South West England