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 […]
Category: Sustainable Buildings
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% […]
A39 House – Completion
Guest Feedback My husband and I and two daughters had a wonderful stay in Herston. The house itself is amazing – carefully […]
Hacking the Sungrow 5 Inverter
This inverter has a WiFi connection and opens ports 80 (password protected) and 502 (modbus). It’s possible to read the modbus registers. […]
Access Grafana v5 via token without login screen
This works for Grafana v5. Grafana v6 has removed this functionality for security reasons. This explains how I implemented a previously outlined […]
Investigating for IotaWatt, AWS, InfluxDB and Grafana
I’ve previously used EmonCMS to log power and energy data from a IotaWatt / EmonTx system. This works well, but I’ve been […]
A39 House – Overview
I’ve recently finished a self-build of a small (90m²) house in Brisbane. It’s been “running” for 2 years now. It’s in Brisbane. TL:DR […]
Sizing a Battery and Solar System with Phisaver Data
This follows how I sized a solar and battery system for my house, using energy monitoring data from phisaver. An example of […]
Iotawatt: Single Tenant InfluxDB and Grafana Setup
This post summarises how I configure IotaWatt, InfluxDB and Grafana to display energy consumption. It uses an AWS EC2 instance. See installation […]
Improving Fridge Performance
As recent client had a few fridges, including wine fridges. They varied in age. Initial PhiSaver analysis over a few weeks showed […]