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A few more ventilation automations in Home Assistant

A few more ventilation automations in Home Assistant

Controlling my Komfovent balanced ventilation system through Home Assistant — opens up a world of possibilities. Here are three automations I use to make the system a bit smarter 🙂

More ducts for the balanced ventilation

More ducts for the balanced ventilation

We got balanced ventilation installed last year, and have been very happy with the system 🙂 But we quickly found that we needed to expand it into two more rooms — the 1st floor bathroom, used as the …

Interfacing Komfovent C6 in Home Assistant

Interfacing Komfovent C6 in Home Assistant

We recently got balanced ventilation installed, and discovered that our ventilation unit has Modbus TCP/IP support. I even found a thread on the Home Assistant community talking about interfacing the …

Getting balanced ventilation installed

Getting balanced ventilation installed

Our house was first built as a log cabin in 1890, then extended in the 1950s, and again extended and completely renovated in 2000. It’s well insulated, and has no drafts — it seems to be relatively …

Home office ventilation — controlled by CO₂ level

Home office ventilation — controlled by CO₂ level

I recently watched Jeff Gerling’s video on CO₂ levels, and how to monitor it. My home office is also in the basement, with no windows. So I paid attention to the air quality when setting up down here. …

My new home office

My new home office

In our new house there is an 20 m² basement, it consists of two rooms — both 10 m². I have turned the inner room into my new home office/server room, with my electronics lab and homelab.

Ventilation and fume extraction rebuild

Ventilation and fume extraction rebuild

Redoing the exhaust ventilation, for the heat generated by the homelab. And installing a proper fume extraction system for my electronics lab.

Homelab ventilation project

Homelab ventilation project

My homelab and home office got way too hot, time for some proper ventilation.

Homelab (2019)

Homelab (2019)

I’ve got a tiny computer lab at home; a 29U rack with servers, UPS, ATS, PDU, 10 Gbit networking, OPNsense, and all the cool stuff.

Rebuilding the exhaust ventilation

Rebuilding the exhaust ventilation

After I stopped smoking cigars in the man cave, the ventilation needed to change.