Part 4 of the home solar project. Adding monitoring tools and hardware.
Will be adding Iotawatt for per-circuit energy monitoring, and solar-assistant for monitoring the performance of my inverter / batteries.
Per my home solar project, I needed a method to collect data from both my batteries and inverters, in near-real-time, with no dependency on the internet.
Since, my inverter's connection relies on cloud applications to move data around, I decided to give Solar Assistant a try after reading of its support for the solark-12k.
Finished Energy Dashboard:
I just swapped my TrueNAS from a Dell R720XD over to a Dell r730XD. During this migration, I moved over my NVMe drives, NICs, and everything else relevant.
However, after firing up TrueNAS on the new hardware, I noticed my 40G NIC was not listed in the list of devices!
After once again googling how to change the mode over, I figured I would just quickly write some documentation incase this happens again in the future.
Last week, I added a 10G Unifi aggregation switch to my network.
I noticed a few potential performance issues, and decided to track them down.
This is a simple guide, with a few methods you can leverage to troubleshoot network performance issues.
A quick guide on how to set common options with the ConnectX-3, via linux, without using the OFED driver.
This guide is specific to ethernet mode, but, may or may not work with infiniband mode.
Installation of my home solar project.
My r720XD took its last breath earlier this week...
This is just a short post about its troubleshooting, and.... what will replace it.
Tonight, I wanted to do a small, random side-project. I automated the galaxy!
(Or, at least a small version of it.)
Creating simple sensors to determine if we are "at work". Includes setting up a work_days sensor, time of day sensor, and a template sensor to tie everything togather.
As well, includes steps for handling vacation / OoO days, and holidays.
As apart of the Home Solar Project, I purchased and assembled an EG4 battery rack.
This post outlines the process of assembly, issues I encountered, and my final opinions.
For the second part of my Home Solar Project, I researched possible solutions and ordered batteries.
This post, describes some of the decision making process I went through.
One of my projects I have been working on over the last two years, is adding solar panels to my house to offset some/most of my electrical usage.
Here are the goals I wish to accomplish, and how I plan on accomplishing them:
Using a Tp-link kasa HS300 as a low-cost switchable PDU. This product has features for per-outlet power monitoring as well.
On this blog / my house, I try to use 100% local control products whenever possible. Many people don’t understand the reasoning behind this…. So, I am dedicating this page to reasons as to why you should ONLY buy products which are 100% local control only, with no cloud dependency, and no proprietary hub.
A quick post going over the best options for taking advantage of home assistant's energy monitoring features.
To note- you don't have to use home assistant with these products. But, these products were specifically chosen due to some level of integration with home assistant.
Why am I moving away from wordpress?
Over the last few months, I decided to learn kubernetes.
A quick guide on re-enabling the apt-get functionality.
How to address Virtual Machines and/or containers not being able to access the TrueNAS Scale server hosting them.
This post details how to extract useful information from the SCCM Schedules format.