A Sofia hail storm dented cars and flooded ground floors. Now a script decodes RainViewer radar into hail and lightning ETAs, pushed from Home Assistant.
Storm cell and hail alerts in Home Assistant from RainViewer radar
Node-RED solar power forecast plus
Using Node-RED's node-red-contrib-solar-power-forecast-plus contribution to plot (light blue line) the estimated max PV generation in ideal conditions for my location/panel orientation/time of year; seems pretty accurate so far. Useful to know what theoretical maximum I have.
Solcast API and home energy usage planning
Fiddling with @solcastAPI; API supposedly provides estimated PV produce based on weather forecasting for a location. Will compare against reality and potentially use to optimize home energy usage planning
Smart IoT solar hot water tank controller
A smart IoT controller for my solar hot water tank – mode switching (manual/auto/anti-freeze) driven by an emonCMS feed.
Software only solution for feeding weather data to emoncms
Feeding weather data to emonCMS with software only – no hardware, an online weather source covers humidity, pressure and wind.