Tag: Home Assistant

Home Assistant Formuler Z11 Remote

As mentioned before, I started using Home Assistant to create my own smart home and as it goes, you start playing with other smart devices in the home. You connect lights, heating, tv, sound system, router, and, in my case, the Formuler Z11 box. You start with little scripts to turn everything on (or off) with a single button press, instead of having to grab three separate remotes. And then you find the Universal Remote Card… a remote control card, within Home Assistant!

Standard buttons for zapping and volume were added quickly, but the ‘Groups’ and ‘Guide’ buttons turned out to be a little bit more of a challenge. But… I got it working, and below is the how-to, if you want to add custom buttons for your android tv box in Home Assistant as well.

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HomeWizard silly graphs

Since HomeWizard still does not show the graphs I would like to see, I started setting up Home Assistant to create my own smart home, with logging of all the stats displayed correctly. A combination of P1 import/export, Solar panels production PLUS the effect of the plug-in Batteries charging and discharging!

Look at what I see in the HomeWizard App, in three graphs(!): my ‘Home Usage’, ‘Solar Consumption’ and ‘Plug-In Battery’ profiles:

Please note these graphs are showing me using incredible amounts all during the day, PLUS the consumption at night is shown as zero watts, while of course the batteries are keeping everything running in the home, at around 250w ‘standby usage’…

So, now look at how much better it is, when all the data is combined in one simple graph:

Anything in the plus is actual usage by the home; split over battery, solar and grid as power source. And the minus shows batteries charging and power returned to the grid. This tells me exactly what I would like to know, my actual home usage!
Thank you Home Assistant!

I have tried to explain to Homewizard what is wrong with their graphs… Unfortunately it has not improved yet and I am not expecting anything anymore. Anyway, by now I cancelled my HomeWizard+ subscription.

That’s all folks!
Have a nice day…