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Wayne Connor

My life scattered around the web - family, technology, church - a bit of everything.

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Don’t Miss Out: NSW Rebates That Make Home Batteries More Affordable

There are a lot of rebates and incentives available for home batteries at the moment. Here's a list so you don't' miss out on any!

Warning, No VPP rebate for batteries over 28kWh in NSW.

We just signed up for a Battery for our home. There are 2 rebates available. There’s the Australian Rebate for the installation of the battery, which covers batteries […]

How to make Credit with Amber energy

Here's how to get discount codes with Amber Energy to save you $120 per year off your bill for each code you share.

Choosing when to export power with a home battery in NSW

We just installed a 50 kW alpha ESS battery. The most logical usage would be to charge the battery during the daytime so that we are capturing our solar energy into the battery and then to feed any excess power that we are not using back into the grid in the evening from 6 pm to 9 pm when there are bonus rates for exporting. Here’s the problem. There is no way to set your home battery to export…

New Alpha ESS Battery Installed Today

Very nice installation by green.com.au and I'd recommend a solar install from them. We got 4x 13kW Alpha ESS battery modules. Ring ‭0485 977 502‬ and talk to Jack. No affiliate links or commissions, I just love their work.

How to set up an alert

I wanted Home assistant to alert my phone of the Main water tank has a leak. (Is emptying too fast for longer than 1/2 hr)

WordPress ‘Incompatible Archive’ error

In WordPress 6.4.3 there’s a bug that when you try to upload a zipped theme to your self-hosted WordPress installation from a Mac you get this error. The […]

How to save money uploading to Amazon S3

I recently uploaded a static site to Amazon S3. Here is my invoice of the costs: Let me explain these AWS transfer cost and maybe you can save […]

Lorawan

Setting up a LoRaWAN gateway for our hobby farm to check the water levels and turn pumps on and off. Firstly I set up one of these, the […]

How to add a new LoRaWAN end device in Node-RED in Home Assistant

Here is the flow of data: All these elements need to be installed into Home Assistant. The RAK gateway forwards nicely to Home Assistant. It’s a WISgate RAK7268V2 […]