Notes on automation, self-hosted infrastructure, home automation, and building software as a solo operator.
I don't own an EV. Before buying one I wanted my own numbers, so both family cars now log every trip's fuel, idling and engine health from the OBD port. What the first weeks say, priced on my power plan, and how to run the same sums for your car.
On the hottest days last summer my ducted air-con was satisfied at 23 °C while the room I cared about sat at 28 to 32. So I measured every sensor in the house against the others and rebuilt the control around that room, the tariff and the forecast. The sensors, the sums, and what the first 34 °C day showed.
The footer view count runs on one InfluxDB measurement, a least-privilege database user, and no cookies. The interesting part is what it deliberately leaves out.
This site runs on my own hardware, not a cloud platform. A short tour of the Proxmox cluster, the push-to-deploy flow, and the Cloudflare tunnel that puts it online.