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Flanders/Belgium's Capacity Tariffs in Home Assistant with Improvements
Flanders reformed the nettariffs for electricity transport, shifting a larger cost to peak usage. They do this by measuring your average consumption per 15m and the maximum quarter of the month counts as your tariff. Currently information and dashboards from Fluvius are cumbersome to use (CSV export and then leveraging Excel to spot the highest quarter). In a 2022 I wrote a quite popular blog post about how to integrate capacity tariffs in Home Assistant.
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Home Assistant: Adding a custom_component in NixOS - revisited
Since NixOS 23.11 there is a new way of packaging Home Assistant custom components, making some of the work written in earlier blog posts irrelevant. Let’s repackage the electrolux_status and it’s dependency tomeko12/pyelectroluxconnect.
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Monitoring HVAC Air Quality in Home Assistant using IKEA Vindstyrka Zigbee sensors
We recently installed Heat Recovery Ventilation (WTW Ventilatie in Dutch) combined with 2 filters; a carbon filter against odor and a fine dust (PM) filter. To find out and monitor, I installed 3 IKEA Vindstyrka Zigbee sensors within the ventilation pipes.
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NixOS on Microsoft Windows 11 using WSL2
NixOS is my go-to Linux distribution, providing a Functional approach to packaging & configuration management.
There are a couple of steps to enable NixOS on top of the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2. -
Data Mesh using Microsoft Fabric at Cloud Scale Analytics '23
In the ever-evolving landscape of data management, organizations are constantly seeking innovative solutions to overcome the challenges posed by traditional centralized data architectures. Enter the concept of Data Mesh, a paradigm shift that decentralizes data ownership and processing, allowing organizations to scale efficiently and unlock the true potential of their data. In this presentation, we explore how Microsoft Fabric can be a game-changer in implementing a Data Mesh.