BeardedTinker/Home-Assistant_Config

Further energy savings

BeardedTinker opened this issue · 1 comments

Working on some additional things that can improve energy efficiency or lower energy use.

This will include:

  • additional heating off when kids are out. Normally this was set to standard Tado controlled Home/Away - if anyone home, it would heat. Now since kids go out for longer time, rooms are not heated until they are back home.
    Possible issue: during very cold days, rooms could potentially get too cold
  • further overhaul of all of the lights. Try to optimise duration of light on timer, add additional motion sensors and automatic controls. Do some additional checks on light status.

This will be ongoing task to see if and how overall electricity and gas usage can be lowered.

Closing for now. Will be further expanding on this in future.