Making a Radiator Smart and Automated (french 2030 Decree): Heatzy Pilote, Z-Wave Thermostat, Jeedom, and Reflections on “Connected” Mode.

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Given the current economic and ecological challenges, and in preparation for the french 2023-444 decree, taking control of your heating system is crucial. In this post, we test the integration of a Wi-Fi Heatzy module into Jeedom. The goal: unify heating control via the Thermostat plugin and add a physical wall-mounted unit. This setup ensures energy savings, consistency across disparate devices, and ease of use… Read more ...

Tutorial – Monitoring electricity consumption on a remote outdoor Linky meter with Zigbee & MQTT

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We want to send information from the Linky meter in a residence, the particularity here being that the meter is located in an electrical cabinet about 30 meters away (outdoors, with abundant vegetation) from the Jeedom home automation box, which is located inside thick walls in the house. All this without any possibility of running cables and without a power supply in the outdoor cabinet!… Read more ...

How to Monitor and Protect Your Home Hub with UPS + Jeedom

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This tutorial covers monitoring an Eaton Ellipse 1200 PRO UPS using a Jeedom controller connected via USB. It addresses specific challenges due to the laptop’s battery. The guide details the installation of NUT software, configuration of UPS settings, and integration of the UPS into Jeedom. Additionally, it outlines how to set up notifications and scenarios for both the UPS and the laptop’s battery to ensure… Read more ...

How to Monitor Electricity Usage with USB over IP and Jeedom (Easy Step-by-Step)

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In this article, I’ll walk you through how I monitor my own electricity use leveraging the Jeedom automation system with a French electricity meter. My setup consists of a “master” Jeedom controller (running as a Debian VM on an Intel NUC with vSphere) and a hardware modem/sensor connected to the meter, which in turn is linked to a remote Raspberry Pi 3B+. The core of… Read more ...

Improve Your Smart Garden: Easy Bluetooth Range Extension for Jeedom

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Spring has arrived, making it the perfect moment to check whether my watering system survived the winter – and to reactivate it. In this article, I’ll explain in detail how I enhanced my existing setup with external Bluetooth antennas. We’ll improve our Jeedom test installation for automatic watering by adding (and cloning) new Bluetooth repeaters (“antennas”) to expand the range for receiving moisture sensor data.… Read more ...

My First DIY Oak Furniture Project – A Step-by-Step Woodworking Journey

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This post departs from my usual tech topics, but it’s still about one of my core values: improving my skills and learning new things. While I’ve been passionate about computing since age 8, I’ve always enjoyed working with my hands—whether it’s gardening or building something from scratch. Woodworking has long fascinated me, and I’ve deeply admired skilled carpenters and furniture makers.

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Smart Irrigation with Jeedom: Automate Your Outdoor Watering Easily

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In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to set up an automated outdoor watering system using the Jeedom home automation platform. With just a few components, you’ll be able to remotely control a water valve for a drip irrigation system, making your garden care much more convenient. The solution uses a soil moisture sensor (communicating with Jeedom over Bluetooth) and a water valve operated via… Read more ...

How to install Debian Raspbian on a Raspberry Pi Zero W

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In this quick guide, I’ll show you the essential steps to prepare a Raspberry Pi Zero for use with the Jeedom automation system. You’ll learn how to flash Raspbian Lite on an SD card using a Windows PC, configure Wi-Fi and SSH before first boot, and make a few tweaks for a headless, robust setup.… Read more ...

How to migrate Jeedom from a Debian 8.5 to 10.3

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In this tutorial, I will guide you step by step through installing the outstanding home automation platform Jeedom by migrating it from an older Debian 8.5 system to a fresh Debian 10.3 Virtual Machine (VM). Not only will I cover the installation, but I’ll also demonstrate how to restore a fully functional Jeedom V3 backup. I embarked on this migration because, over time, issues related… Read more ...

Launching Gekkoga on high-end EC2 Spot machine, step by step

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We learned how to launch an EC2 instance from an Amazon AMI with a batched gekko/gekkoga app/conf deployment. Now we will learn how to use it on a more powerful, larger CPU-optimized instance at a good price (Amazon EC2 Spot feature), so that we can -literally- quickly bruteforce all possible parameters and inputs of a given trading strategy, using Gekkoga’s genetic algorithm.… Read more ...