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easyEnergy market prices with new integration in Home Assistant

Last month I wrote a blog about the EnergyZero integration, but this month we are going to talk about a new integration for easyEnergy! In this blog more information about the new integration, which will be available from the Home Assistant 2023.3 (March) release. easyEnergy is a company with dynamic energy contracts where you can buy/sell electricity/gas according to day-ahead market prices, since 2018 the company has been taken over by energy supplier NieuweStroom. Why then does the integration still carry the name easyEnergy?Currently, both companies display energy prices on their websites that come from the easyEnergy API. Should this…

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EnergyZero market prices with new integration in Home Assistant

Recently we made the switch from a variable energy contract to a dynamic energy contract (ANWB Energie) with a different energy price every hour. In this blog, we’re going to talk about a new integration I’ve been working on for the past month that will be available with the Home Assistant 2023.2 release. That new integration is EnergyZero, a company where other parties can purchase their electricity/gas according to day-ahead market prices. Well-known partners who work with EnergyZero are, for example: All the companies mentioned above are also available as a virtual integration in Home Assistant. The idea of dynamic…

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It’s a long time ago

Oh mean… what did I do!? It’s been a year since my last post and too much has happened in that time, sorry for that! But let’s do a quick recap of the highlights. Workplace upgrade Exactly one year ago we were in a time when “education from distance” was the norm and I also started an internship what happened from home, so I decided to invest in my workplace at home. My workplace consisted of a small desk with a shelving unit on both sides and I thought that could be better. It seemed very cool to me, but…

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First integration in Home Assistant!

Something that was always on my todo / wish list was making my own integration, but it never happened until now! My knowledge of python is still quite basic, but I still wanted to give it a try. To start off simply, I decided to build an integration that shows the occupancy of a large number of parking garages in Amsterdam (The Netherlands). You are probably wondering when can I use this integration? It’s available from version 2021.06! Sensors When you add a garage via the UI, you get 4 sensors in your overview: Free space long Free space short…

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Blitzwolf LT11 with ESPHome

I’ve had the Blitzwolf LT11 LED strips at home for a while and they hang in my shelving units, but the problem with these LED strips is that they have standard firmware from Tuya. Which means that communication goes through the cloud and I really wanted to get rid of that and control it local, but I didn’t know how. Until today! What do you need Tuya-convert Raspberry Pi (or anything else that runs on linux and can set up its own WiFi Access Point) Mobile phone Home Assitant that runs the ESPHome add-on Create an ESPHome node To keep…

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How I save water while showering🚿

Hey hello, there I’m again with an update! In this blog I will come up with a number of updates that I’ve made in Home Assistant / my house, such as new hardware and I will show you a great idea how you could possibly save water while showering. But first, Blueprints! 📘 Blueprints Recently it’s now possible to make blueprints in Home Assistant, with this you can create a pre-made automation that contains all the logic and others can easily import and use them as a basis for their automation. For the above devices I made a blueprint, the…

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Is this going to be the future?

I have a new laptop! 💻 It has been a while, but I gave myself a new laptop. I noticed that my old laptop (Acer V Nitro …) was no longer good enough for all my work and study assignments, mainly because we were working on Android app development at the time during my studies and especially the emulator demands a lot from your laptop . In the end I bought the Asus Zenbook 15, a 14 inch model laptop with a 15″ 4K screen and an extra screen in the touchpad! Later on the details, but first a nice…

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Hello? What is your emergency? 🆘

Today I want to talk about safety in the context of medical necessity and how technology can help with independent living. This is a question that I’ve struggled with for ages and where I’ve finally been able to make a start. Of course many things that I tell in this blog are still under development, but enough to tell about. Do you have any tips or ideas for me? Please let me know! I try to find the best possible solution for myself and for others, in order to make life a lot more pleasant. As some people know I…

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My cookingplate died 🍳

Hello guys! It’s a while ago but I finally found time to finish my blog 🙂 Induction cookingplate Recently my induction cookingplate passed away 🙁 Quite strange when you are cooking shawarma and you suddenly smell a little mechanically scorched smell. Well that happened to me and then suddenly half of my induction cookingplate stopped working! A few weeks later, it completely stopped. I lived on microwave meals from my mother for about a month, but after that it was really time for a new hob. During the black friday deals, I purchased a sharply priced new hob from the…

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Back to normal business 👨‍💻

The end of the summer vacation has arrived and that means that school or work is back on the agenda. The study will start again on this Tuesday and I am really looking forward to it. Because I am mainly going to run projects in my specialization, so I am very curious what we will do. New hardware In addition to maintaining code, I also brought in some new stuff in house. Harmony Hub (companion) For a long time I used the Broadlink RM Pro +, but during the Amazon Prime days the Harmony Hub was so cheap that I…