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Home Assistant is open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts. Perfect to run on a Raspberry Pi or a local server. Available for free at home-assistant.io

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The UK is currently experiencing some prolonged windy weather and my all-renewable energy provider offers dynamic pricing. That means cheap energy and even negative-cost energy. This is where my HA instance shines and saves me a fortune on my power bill. Thanks again to the HA devs for this incredible project.

For the curious, I'm using bottlecapdave's excellent Home Assistant Octopus Energy integration via HACS.

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[–] TedZanzibar@feddit.uk 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I keep thinking about doing something similar as I have an EV, solar, and batteries and Home Assistant to pull it all together but I just can't seem to make the maths work on sites like Octoprice. No matter how much I tweak things it always comes out more expensive than Intelligent Go.

I do at least have an automation setup to make the most of the 2 hours of free energy tomorrow. Better than nothing!

[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 3 points 1 month ago

I'm surprised, to be honest, since I worked out a while ago that if I had an EV - even something like a Zoë doing 20 miles a day - I'd be saving a lot of money, but if you've done the maths then fair enough. Keep in mind, though, that since you're alreay with Octupus you could just switch to Agile for a month and switch back if it doesn't work out.

[–] gitamar@feddit.org 1 points 4 weeks ago

Maybe evcc is helpful for you. It can control EV charging stations and batteries based on fine granular rules: https://evcc.io/