An article by Rosie on the House suggests a plan to save on electricity if you have a tiered rate plan. Supercooling. Cool your house as much as you can stand during off-prime hours and allow the temperature to rise as much as you can stand during prime hours. Another idea is to pre-cool three degrees below normal for three hours before prime. Then allow temperature to rise to three degrees above normal during prime. You get the idea.

For me, 75 degrees is the ideal daytime temperature in the summer. It looks like I’ll be able to drop the temperature to 72 with one hour of pre-cooling. I’ll let it rise to 78 during prime hours which is a bit warm but still comfortable. Then it’s back to 75 before dropping to 72 for sleep.

I started from scratch (again) and installed Home Assistant Operating System as a VM under Proxmox using an excellent tutorial from TinkerDad. I previously installed Proxmox using an Andreas Spiess tutorial. He convinced me a Lenovo ThinkCentre with Proxmox was an excellent alternative to the Raspberry Pi for Home Assistant. He also recommend some post install tweaks.

Home Assistant Community Store

The next step was to install HACS. HACS is an HAOS integration for installing custom add-ons, integrations, etc. That’s where I found the Emporia Vue integration that I was anxious to install. Mark Watt Tech provided the guide for this installation. The Advanced SSH & Web Terminal add-on was needed for this install.

Home Power Monitoring with the Emporia VUE and Home Assistant

mostlychris helped me with a video on installing the emporia_vue Home Assistant Integration.

Ecobee integration…

Wyze integration (HACS)…

Spotify integration guide…

Mushroom (HACS)…

Mark Watt Tech guides…

Temperature Feels Like seems like interesting repository for HACS Home Assistant…