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Smart home control from Garmin devices
2024-04-29 08:34:00 UTC
After smartening our car gates and enabling our phones and cars to control them, I wanted to add another access option: our Garmin watches and cycling computers. When going on a walk or bike ride, the phone is often already tucked away in some pocket or backpack, and the Garmin…
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A closer look at the inner workings of evcc
2023-11-23 06:56:00 UTC
After setting up two instances of evcc with a relatively basic setup I wanted to learn a bit more about customizing the charging process. While the evcc documentation is comprehensive, it required some time and patience to learn from it how the different inputs and settings work and interact with…
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Running evcc in our second home with Fronius
2023-11-21 08:39:00 UTC
After setting up evcc in our primary home, we wanted to do the same in our holiday home. The photovoltaic (PV) system there was installed by the home’s previous owner, and includes a Fronius Symo GEN24 inverter, a Fronius Smart Meter and a BYD battery. The other components are the…
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Running evcc on Synology with Huawei, go-e and VW
2023-11-10 20:27:00 UTC
Today we’ll continue with the topic of solar charging, or in other words how we optimized our photovoltaic (PV) system and electric car charging station (wallbox) to make best use of our solar power. A previous post already outlines why we choose the open-source software evcc for this optimization, now…
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Comparing evcc and the go-e Controller for solar charging
2023-11-06 13:58:00 UTC
This year we replaced both our cars with electric vehicles, an Volkswagen ID.Buzz and an ID.4. As everyone is probably aware, costs of electricity have been rising steeply recently, and are much higher than what is paid for the surplus of our photovoltaic (PV) system. Therefore, we wanted to optimize…