Measured energy
From house to apartment building: scaling up control
From a single house to an apartment building with a plant room: boiler, pumps, valves and metering of heating, cooling and water for every unit.
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Your data stays yours
Your data stays home: a smart home privacy guide
Which devices collect data, how to tell local from cloud, the settings to check and the rights you have: a practical smart home privacy guide.
Your data stays yours
Updates and maintenance of an open system: who does what
What gets updated, how often, how to test first and who is responsible: maintaining a building system that runs Home Assistant, with no mandatory fees.
Measured energy
Schools and public buildings: heating to the real timetable
School calendars, pre-heating, zones for classrooms, gym and offices, data for the authority: how heating matched to real use cuts a school’s bills.
From panel to data
Integrating MVHR into the heating and cooling control
Fan speeds, humidity, CO₂, summer bypass and filters: how to integrate MVHR control with heating and cooling in a single building control system.
Open by choice
Becoming a Brick installer: training, documentation and support
Who it is for, what you learn, which documents and what support: the pathway for installers who want to work with Home Assistant and Brick.
Measured energy
Hotels and B&Bs: heating rooms only when guests are there
Empty rooms, arriving guests, occupied rooms: how to control heating and cooling in a hotel or B&B from the bookings, and what the manager sees.
Your data stays yours
Your data stays home: how Brick works without the cloud
What Brick does inside the building, what happens if the internet goes down, where your data is and who can access it: local heating control explained.
From panel to data
Commissioning a zoned heating system: the installer’s checklist
Before power-up, inputs and outputs, sensor calibration, zone tests, handover: a step-by-step checklist for commissioning zoned underfloor heating.
Open by choice
Open by choice: five doubts about open source in building systems, answered
Less secure? Who maintains it? Who answers if it breaks? Where is the cost? Will it last? Five open source building automation myths, answered.
Your data stays yours
Your energy data is yours: export it, keep it, share it with your energy manager
Where consumption data lives in a Home Assistant system, how to export it as CSV, how long to keep it and what an energy manager needs for an audit.
Open by choice
Siemens, Sonoff and other brands in one control system
Siemens controllers on Modbus and KNX, Zigbee sensors and radiator heads, 0–10 V actuators: how different brands work together with Home Assistant.