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New Repo for “open” ERVs
The goal of this project is to gather solutions for efficient ventilation for homes. As we’ve been upgrading our 1960s home, naturally the home exchanges less air and the air “feels” stale, confirmed with an air quality monitor. Many homes have ducting, which can make ventilation easier using existing infrastructure, but many other homes are…
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Anker’s APIs Keep Getting Better
As mentioned previously there is an amazing community Solix API for Anker devices, including the F3800, but Anker has also started their own API. They have only just started the library but it is everything one could potentially ask for an open library with local Modbus control. Currently there is only support for a smart…
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Mach-E Monitor 12v Notification with Home Assistant
While there is an official fix for Mach-E’s 12v issues there is a Ford Pass app (unofficial of course) for Home Assistant that allows you to track and set a notification for the 12v battery. (Along with a host of other things.) The login process is not super easy but once added the level of…
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An F3800 API via MQTT
First massive massive kudos to https://github.com/thomluther and all the folks working on the https://github.com/thomluther/anker-solix-api/ Anker Solix API. I cannot believe how far they have come in such a short period of time. There is now a usable Sensor API for the F3800 without the need for the power panels or other connections, all that is…
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Battery Status Aggregation in Home Assistant
Smart Batteries have their issues but being able to monitor them in Home Assistant is convenient and mostly works well. (Yes, another option is a smart shunt.) Fortunately, as usual with Home Assistant, there is an awesome plug-in via HACS, the Home Assistant Community Store, for all these bluetooth BMSes via BMS_BLE-HA. Once the batteries…
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Separate Docker Compose containers as an alternative to TrueNAS
TrueNAS has running been excellently on a random collection of HDDs, 9th Gen Intel, and older NVidia GPU parts but it can be a lot to manage. Enabling and discovering apps on TrueNAS is easy but, in my experience, fully configuring the apps can be more difficult than than editing Docker Compose files. So when…