The Radxa ROCK 3a Since we got a new thermostat, along with a new heat pump last year, we’ve been connecting that to the Open Source home automation software Home Assistant. This hasn’t been to do anything fancy, but Home Assistant produces graphs that are a bit prettier than those from the app that is provided with the thermostat, and as the thermostat is accessible via HomeKit, it was straightforward to add to Home Assistant. Such graphs have been useful to tune the heat pump for maximum efficiency while getting the house to temperature. I’m also intending to look more closely at options for accessing Home Assistant while away from the house and might then move to use that to schedule the heating, but for now the only use is to see the graphs. To date, we’d been running Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi 3A+, just because that was what we had rather than that it was really suitable. It’s been sort of OK, but it has felt sluggish and we were seeing ‘Home Assistant is reloading’ instead…
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