February 4, 2020February 4, 2020H33 House Solar Analysis In Brisbane we want zero sun in Summer, a tiny tiny bit in Spring and Autumn and a reasonable amount in Winter. […]
January 22, 2020April 4, 2023Computing, Energy Monitoring, Internet Of Things Hacking an IotaWatt ESP8266 I need to flash the IotaWatt firmware (and write new files to the SD card) for two reasons: firstly I have a […]
November 6, 2019February 11, 2022Energy Monitoring, Programming Access Grafana without a login screen Unlike Grafana 5, we can’t use the ‘old’ method of a proxy login to get a cookie for semi-permanent login. This post […]
November 2, 2019August 23, 2021Energy Monitoring IotaWatt: Multi-Tenant Setup using InfluxDB v1 This post describes how to setup IotaWatt on a single-database (multi-tenant) arrangement in Influx. Previously I described single database setup for Influx, […]
March 12, 2019March 12, 2019A39 House, Sustainable Buildings Architectural Hacking Layout Moves Sometimes it’s hard to predict which layout will look best – often the plan (i.e “in plan”, looking down) is […]
February 26, 2019February 5, 2020H33 House Daylight and Sun Shading Analysis – Superceded Pod Design Shading and Daylighting Using Ecotect and some custom scripts, it’s possible to quickly generate “views from the sun”. Using Radiance, we can […]
February 19, 2019June 28, 2020Architecture Stair Design The rise and run of a stairway makes it comfortable (or not). This reference is good but in imperial, this is good […]
February 18, 2019February 18, 2019A39 House A39 House – Performance and Monitoring Air Sealing Testing Introduction and Rationale “Build tight and ventilate right” is the mantra for passive houses in cold climates, such as […]
February 18, 2019February 18, 2019A39 House A39 House – Construction Tips: Concreting the Stumps Boral truck was very late, then charged a wait fee (!). Won’t use Boral again. Pumping (minipump) was […]
February 18, 2019June 6, 2019A39 House A39 House – Design Daylight Modelling to Inform the Design Target A DF of 10% will always stop people turning on lights A DF of 3% […]