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Health
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Indoor Plants – the VOC solution
This study from NASA in 1989 shows us one of the most efficient way to purify air from toxins is house plants! So if you do want to […]
information
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Rebates and incentives available for batteries in NSW.
There are a lot of rebates and incentives available for home batteries at the moment. Here’s a list so you don’t’ miss out on any!
Wayne
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Warning, No VPP rebate for batteries over 28kWh in NSW.
We just signed up for a Battery for our home. There are 2 rebates available. There’s the Australian Rebate for the installation of the battery, which covers batteries […]
reviews
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How to make Credit with Amber energy
Here’s how to get discount codes with Amber Energy to save you $120 per year off your bill for each code you share.
electronics / Wayne
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Choosing when to export power with a home battery in NSW
We just installed a 50 kW alpha ESS battery. The most logical usage would be to charge the battery during the daytime so that we are capturing our solar energy into the battery and then to feed any excess power that we are not using back into the grid in the evening from 6 pm to 9 pm when there are bonus rates for exporting. Here’s the problem. There is no way to set your home battery to export manually during these peak times.
electronics
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New Battery
Very nice installation by green.com.au and I’d recommend a solar install from them. We got 4x 13kW Alpha ESS battery modules. Ring 0485 977 502 and talk to Jack.
No affiliate links or commissions, I just love their work.
LoRaWAN
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How to set up an alert
I wanted Home assistant to alert my phone of the Main water tank has a leak. (Is emptying too fast for longer than 1/2 hr)
Wayne
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WordPress ‘Incompatible Archive’ error
In WordPress 6.4.3 there’s a bug that when you try to upload a zipped theme to your self-hosted WordPress installation from a Mac you get this error. The […]
computers
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How to save money uploading to Amazon S3
I recently uploaded a static site to Amazon S3. Here is my invoice of the costs: Let me explain these AWS transfer cost and maybe you can save […]
electronics
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Lorawan
Setting up a LoRaWAN gateway for our hobby farm to check the water levels and turn pumps on and off. Firstly I set up one of these, the […]
LoRaWAN
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How to add a new LoRaWAN end device in Node-RED in Home Assistant
Here is the flow of data: All these elements need to be installed into Home Assistant. The RAK gateway forwards nicely to Home Assistant. It’s a WISgate RAK7268V2 […]
Wayne
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LoRaWAN in Node-RED
When you are entering the device ID, it needs to be lowercase. Here: application/depthdam/device/a84041d0a1886fb0/rx uppercase does not work I think this is because it’s a simple text match […]
Wayne
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My sudden hearing problem
In July 2023 I went instantly deaf in one ear and to cut a long story short it turns out I have something called SSHL or Sudden Senseroneural […]
LoRaWAN
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Understanding LoRaWAN payloads
I have a Dragino Water Pressure meter and the depth values didn’t seem to be updating. So I was trying to work out which numbers in the raw […]
LoRaWAN
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LoRaWAN dragino Pressure sensor payload for datacake PS-LB
I ordered one of these: It’s a 5m depth water sensor. PS-LB Dragino Depth Formula There’s a formula in the payload decoder to convert the mA to water […]
Wayne
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Gourmet Mouse Pizza
Here’s the crazy mouse Pizza video that went a bit viral and even made it into the Netflix annual year in review!