Category: Home Assistant

Rainforest EMU-2 Energy Monitoring with Home Assistant

Mar 12, 2022 | Home Assistant | 11

Background Puget Sound Energy (PSE) recently upgraded my house to include a smart meter which allows them to automatically take meter readings instead of having to physically visit my house. A side effect of this upgrade is that I can now get real-time energy readings with the...

Home Assistant 2022.2 breaks my FreeBSD startup script

Feb 5, 2022 | Home Assistant | 0

Creating a new rc.d script for FreeBSD since Home Assistant 2022.2 dropped support for daemonizing itself. The new script uses the daemon utility to spawn and track the Home Assistant process.