This year I upgraded the home monitoring suite in my house from a Wattson to a Splunk dashboard running on a tablet in the kitchen. The primary reason for doing this was that after getting the Tesla Powerwall, Wattson no longer was able to correctly state how much power was …
Last Friday we have our Tesla Powerwall installed and at the same time the electricians installed my Rolec car charger. I was most excited about the Powerwall as I’ll hardly use the car charger and the Powerwall has an API which means I can add extra data to my home …
In my post about ordering a home car charger I mentioned that I was using the same electricians to install the charger at the same time as they install another product that I’m super excited about – well I’ve order a Tesla Powerwall!! 😀 When I picked up my car …
I’ve now had my car for a week and a half and have clocked up 600 miles. It’s been an interesting week since I wrote the last post and there’s a few things I’ve noticed with the car over that time… The drivers sun visor is seriously small compared to …
Follow on to my post yesterday about my Leaf 2.Zero. I’ve ordered my home charger. It’s a Rolec, black with grey inserts, 32A tethered type 2 device. I researched a number of devices and companies when looing for a home charger and landed on this device because I liked the …
I bought myself a new car this year and after two years of looking at electric cars, I’ve finally bought one! As of Tuesday, I now own a Nissan Leaf 2.Zero in black. Why did I buy an electric car? I’m a fan of green tech, so at some point …
As mentioned in my previous post (see https://blog.v-s-f.co.uk/2017/04/home-monitoring-upgrade/), the first task I have is to migrate from HSQLDB to MySQL. Because the system logs data every minute while I have power in the house and I want to minimise downtime when I actually have a fully working upgrade, I’ve experimented …
I’ve been monitoring stats from my meter, weather and hotwater tank for over two years now (see https://blog.v-s-f.co.uk/2015/04/home-monitoring-home-made-reborn/) and the application now needs an upgrade. I now want to log more data from the weather station (temperature and humidity). This should be as simple as adding two new columns to …
It’s just over a year ago now that I started transforming the front garden into a butterfly and bee friendly garden (https://blog.v-s-f.co.uk/2015/08/front-garden-transformation/). In the last post I finished the article with some photo’s of the garden from April showing the newly planted borders. The garden was a huge success and …
For the last few years, I’ve grown wildflowers in the back garden to attract bees and butterflies into the garden. The flowers were really successful the first year I grew them, with the border full of cornflowers and poppies.Since then I’ve not had quite as much success – despite throwing …
I’d previously shared on my blog the home made monitoring application I’d built to aggregate pv, meter and weather data – see: https://blog.v-s-f.co.uk/2014/03/home-monitoring-home-made-overview/. Over the last few months I re-wrote the app to not only output the data to PVOutput every minute, but store that same data into an HSQLDB …
I’ve had my solar panels since October 2011 (details about my system can be found on this post) and I’m always telling people how good they are. When I tell people about my solar panels, I get one question – “how much do they generate” and the second is a …
Just found this website today from a post on the Guardian website which enables members of the public to crowd fund solar panels to be installed on School rooves! Nearest school to me is Maple Tree Lower, who look like they need a little help. But great idea! http://www.solarschools.org.uk/mapletree/
And finally the results of all work! There isn’t any change on the first graph which shows generation and import (yes, it should be consumption, but I have yet to work out the right values for the addstatus service). The next graph is the result of all the hard work. …
There are only 6 java classes, 1 properties file and the flow (XML) file making up the Mule application. Some of them can be better written and should be unit tested, but they work and do the job :-)) ConsumptionData.java DefaultReadingData.java HotWaterData.java ConsumptionInputDataTransformer.java ExtraDataOutputTransformer.java HotWaterInputDataTransformer.java pvoutputaggregator.properties pvoutputaggregator.mflow Next Part Part …
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