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Monitoring Energy Usage With Home Assistant (2025 Edition)
A number of years ago, I wrote about monitoring my energy usage with Home Assistant. At the time I was using a Rainforest Automation Eagle Energy device that connected to my SDGE smart meter. That device worked quite well for a long time, but in the last few years became unreliable. I bought a newer version of the device and it was less stable than what I already had, so I returned it and dealt with it.
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My WiFi bit the dust
A few months ago, I noticed that some of my IoT devices weren’t reliably connecting to my network or was quite slow. I rebooted the devices only to have them work for a little bit. I decided to reboot the access points (I have 3 in my house) and things got better for a little bit.
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Stress and Ulcerative Colitis
About 24 years ago, I started having symptoms of ulcerative colitis and then was diagnosed right after I got married. I won’t draw any conclusions about what caused me to develop the condition at that time. I’ve been keeping it under control, for the most part, primarily through medication. When I was diagnosed, there weren’t that many choices; now there seem to be a bunch.
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Burning down the house (almost)
The other day, my son came to me and said his monitor wouldn’t turn on when plugged into the surge protector and that the “building wiring fault” light was lit. I told him to try the surge protector in another outlet and circuit and he said that it was still lit on the same circuit, but not on other circuits.
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