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Peak-Shaving the Belgian Kwartierpiek with Marstek Batteries and Home Assistant
2026-06-23

Belgium has a peculiar way of billing electricity. Alongside the energy you actually use, the grid charges you for the peak power you draw — specifically the highest 15-minute rolling average over …

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Bringing a Second-Hand Solar-Log 500 Online
2026-06-23

I have a Platinum 3100S inverter on the roof turning sunlight into electricity, and for the longest time the only way I knew what it was doing was the little LCD on the front — if I happened to be …

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Turning a Cheap Yellow Display into a Home Assistant Control Panel
2026-06-19

Every day my kids come home from school and stand at the front door. Every time I want to know if I should start dinner or if the washing machine is still running, I pull out my phone, open the Home …

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Tracking My AI Usage Limits in Home Assistant
2026-06-19

I run my coding life across two AI plans — Claude Code on an Anthropic Pro subscription, and the z.ai GLM Coding Plan — and both of them enforce the same kind of rolling usage limits: a five-hour …