In this post I will explain how I hooked up our normal washing machine to provide some power usage insights, such as sending notifications that include the cycle time and power consumption.

I’m using Home Assistant and leveraging Node-Red installed via an addon to provide the automation layer....

We have a couple Hue Motion Sensors in our apartment to provide some automation for lighting control which work great, albeit a bit expensive.

I wanted to extend our setup for our bedroom and since we already had an ESP32 NodeMCU device running ESPHome with a

In our house we have a few older generation Teckin SP22’s running Espurna and newer Gosund SP111 running Tasmota that all publish their energy statistics via MQTT to Home Assistant.

I wanted a unified way to visualise the daily and monthly energy usage of these devices...

Leading on from a previous post regarding Flashing custom firmware on Gosund SP111 devices.

This post explains how to connect devices running Tasmota to Home Assistant, allowing both control and integrating sensors if your device has power sensing capabilities such as the Gosund SP111.

This post...

We have some older generation Teckin SP22’s which I previously flashed with Espurna. They have since changed the model making it harder to flash due to the removal of the 4 screws on the back. People online reported some levels of success using Tuya Convert, but I...