As I wrote before, My smart watch is open source. Awesome!

Let's make this fun — for children in particular — and show how we can bend the device to our will because FOSS means it's truly ours, fully under our control.

We'll soon have smart electricity and gas meters. Let's monitor them locally through our home automation system, Home Assistant.

Who's been through this process, selecting a PV inverter & system best suited to cloud-free monitoring? Can you advise me if I should insist on a particular inverter, or connect an add-on box (EmonCMS or other)?

We're looking to install solar PV on our roof and maybe an air source heat pump too. I've collected plans, thoughts, questions on my own web site here:

https://blog.foad.me.uk/2022/11/24/solar-pv-heat-pump/ [1]

My particular passion is to be “cloud-free”. That's when I found you, the open energy monitor community. Hurray!

My smart watch is open source. Awesome!

PineTime from Pine64 (product | shop | wiki)

Automating our lights, security cameras, all the Things? We'll be needing some IoT Gadgets and a home automation system.

“Which brand? Amazon Alexa or Google or Apple HomeKit?”

NO! Big Tech makes technology that best serves Big Tech. We don't have to accept it, once we learn there's an alternative.

Time I Learned: our smart home can respect our freedom.