Thoughts from the field
Energy Autopilot is a startup I founded to create an innovative Home Energy Management System (“HEMS”). We are hard at work on that solution now, working toward releasing it to the world in due course. The more time our team … Continue reading →
We are putting the finishing touches on a substantial battery upgrade at The Vale at the moment. The old Redflow based 280kWh battery array has been removed, and replaced with almost 400kWh (80 modules) of Pylontech US5000 units. This is … Continue reading →
Update: 25 July 2023: “Epilogue” This is an epilogue, to document the outcome, in fairness to Qantas. All of the issues noted below in this blog post, with the exception of the electronic case management IT tool at Qantas being … Continue reading →
On 25 Jan 2023 I held a tour of The Vale’s energy system ( https://aeva.asn.au/events/450/) for members of AEVA in Tasmania. We had a lot of people (and a lot of EV’s) turn up 🙂 There was a slide show … Continue reading →
Do you have AXIS web cameras? Do you use MacOS or IOS? Chances are that you have been suffering the same issue that i have, for more than a year now… and that has been driving me a bit mad! … Continue reading →
Subtitle: “Ubiquiti Auto-Optimise Breaks stuff again” (it is also responsible for this). The Scenario I have been having persistent, annoying and sustained issues with older Sonos devices dropping off of my WiFi network after a while. This is on a … Continue reading →
A recent Ubiquiti UniFI OS upgrade has broken peer to peer wireless LAN traffic handling Continue reading →
The other day, I was talking with someone about the wonders (and the satisfaction) of operating a large renewable energy system at our Tasmanian farm, and how I get to charge up my electric motor glider and go flying on … Continue reading →
I delivered a (virtual) talk at a recent (August 2021) battery technology conference in South Africa. Having taken a look at the recording, I think it has come out as a reasonably clear and cogent summary of the current state … Continue reading →
I’ve recently received my first SpaceX Starlink connection kit and fired it up in the wilds of Adelaide, South Australia. I’ve been figuring out how it all works and commencing some efforts toward a mid term project of deploying another … Continue reading →