Matt reports back from the EcoHome Lab field trip. We first met Mike Wilson in 2016 at an EcoHome Lab meetup session ‘From Monitoring to Control‘ exploring the recent integration of the building blocks of home automation (MQTT, NodeRED and OpenHAB) into the EmonPi, the central base-station for the OpenEnergyMonitor system (view session presentation). In … Read more
After a brief hiatus Eco-home Lab, our open source energy monitor club, is back. The next date is…5.30pm-8.30pm, Friday 13th March 2014 at MadLab, Edge Street, Manchester. It's completely free and you can register your place here: http://www.meetup.com/Eco-Home-Lab-Manchester/ It's a great place to learn about and experiment with the monitors but a degree of prior … Read more
Carbon Co-op have been working with OpenEnergyMonitors to develop tools to help our members take greater control of their homes. We've now set up Ecohome Labs, a project to further develop, test and experiment with these and similar technologies. If you're interested in getting involved in the project, you may want to attend one of the upcoming … Read more
We’ve been working with the brilliant OpenEnergyMonitor project to provide monitoring of our current range of home retrofits. What’s great about the system is that it’s modular, so you can add additional sensors as and when we need to show not only how much energy your using, but how your solar PV system is performing … Read more