{"id":74845,"date":"2026-10-02T03:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T17:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/?p=74845"},"modified":"2026-09-26T16:19:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T06:19:36","slug":"home-assistant-primer-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/home-assistant-primer-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Assistant Primer Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/home_assistant.gif\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 15px solid pink;\" alt=\"Home Assistant Primer Tutorial\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/home_assistant.gif\" title=\"Home Assistant Primer Tutorial\"  style=\"float:left;\"  \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Home Assistant Primer Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We discussed some EV Charging ideas when we presented the recent <a title='Ocular EV Charging App RFIDs Primer Tutorial' href='#oevcarfidpt'>Ocular EV Charging App RFIDs Primer Tutorial<\/a>.  That Ocular App functionality for home AC charging features three modes of use, those being &#8230;<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td style=vertical-align:top;>\n<ul>\n<li>Fast\n<\/li>\n<li>Solar Assist\n<\/li>\n<li>Solar\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<td style=vertical-align:top;>\n<img src='https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/homeassistant.png'><\/img><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p> &#8230; that last one sounding ideal if you have solar battery storage at home, but in reality, the conditions of it&#8217;s usage have been a bit elusive for us to achieve yet this year.  Perhaps the height of summer will see this different, but today, we&#8217;re pointing you to another idea we have not yet implemented ourselves, but known out there by a lot of people as a good generic idea regarding the control of your energy setup in a home environment, as our electrician gave us &#8220;the heads up&#8221; about.  It&#8217;s a hardware and software product called &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><code><br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" title='Home Assistant' href='https:\/\/www.home-assistant.io\/' rel=\"noopener\">Home Assistant<\/a><br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n<p> &#8230; as described &#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote cite='https:\/\/www.home-assistant.io\/'><p>\nAwaken your home<br \/>\nOpen source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> &#8230; by this great not-for-profit enterprise.<\/p>\n<p>We went researching and have come up with today&#8217;s tutorial animated GIF<\/a> for your perusal, should you be interested.<\/p>\n<p><!--p>You can also see this play out at WordPress 4.1.1's <a target=\"_blank\" href='\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/home-assistant -primer-tutorial\/' rel=\"noopener\">Home Assistant Primer Tutorial<\/a>.<\/p-->\n<hr>\n<p id='oevcarfidpt'>Previous relevant <a target=\"_blank\" title='Ocular EV Charging App RFIDs Primer Tutorial' href='\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/ocular-ev-charging-app-rfids-primer-tutorial\/' rel=\"noopener\">Ocular EV Charging App RFIDs Primer Tutorial<\/a> is shown below.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/iPhone\/ev_charging.gif\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 15px solid pink;\" alt=\"Ocular EV Charging App RFIDs Primer Tutorial\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/iPhone\/ev_charging.gif\" title=\"Ocular EV Charging App RFIDs Primer Tutorial\"  style=\"float:left;\"  \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ocular EV Charging App RFIDs Primer Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We recently got helped hugely acclimatizing to a new EV (electric vehicle) via a &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Solar Panel and Battery install to house &#8230; solar battery specialists &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>EV Charging via Private Pole to house and grid &#8230; electrician &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>EV Car &#8230; car sales specialist<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> &#8230; flurry of advice recently, leaving us with mobile apps for &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the house solar panels and battery<\/li>\n<li>the car<\/li>\n<li>the EV charger &#8230; it being today&#8217;s focus, and called the <a target=\"_blank\" title='Ocular app' href='https:\/\/ocularcharging.com.au\/charging-management-software\/?utm_term=&#038;utm_campaign=Remarketing_v2&#038;utm_source=adwords&#038;utm_medium=ppc&#038;hsa_acc=5711313700&#038;hsa_cam=22038721081&#038;hsa_grp=&#038;hsa_ad=&#038;hsa_src=x&#038;hsa_tgt=&#038;hsa_kw=&#038;hsa_mt=&#038;hsa_net=adwords&#038;hsa_ver=3&#038;gad_source=1&#038;gad_campaignid=22038733390&#038;gbraid=0AAAAABScZQqTwujvHH_-hq0oDOrHf9CoX&#038;gclid=Cj0KCQjwt9jVBhDXARIsAFSP-6cgsNIRp4GUvB-B8eq23U_iRUT1LjvLA9f1MsrX0SoPE_ffb-ZY5a8aAmJFEALw_wcB' rel=\"noopener\">Ocular App<\/a>, helping with AC (the top &#8220;trickle feed&#8221; slower (top car plug, and as you buy the EV Charger you get supplied the <a href='#butler'><strike>un<\/strike><\/a>suitable lead) charging approach, as distinct from <a target=\"_blank\" title='Evie charging app' href='https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.goevie.goevie_app&#038;hl=en_AU' rel=\"noopener\">Evie App<\/a> charging <font size=1>(oh, that makes four)<\/font> at public charging stations where, hopefully available, is faster DC charging (the bottom car plug) many Australians will be getting a handle on this coming school holidays) &#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img src='\/Mac\/iPhone\/three_apps.PNG'><\/img><\/p>\n<p>Since then, the car people upgraded our car software in an indescribable set of steps &#8230; was this firmware?!  Anyway, an ongoing matter of interest (it took us a month to address <font size=1>but read on<\/font>) was the electrician leaving us with two <a target=\"_blank\" title='RFID information from Wikipedia, thanks' href='https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Radio-frequency_identification' rel=\"noopener\">RFID<\/a>s &#8230; these quite small rigid but smaller and fatter credit card &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img src='\/Mac\/iPhone\/look_of_card.jpeg'><\/img><\/p>\n<p> &#8230; feeling <strike>do-dahs<\/strike> EV charging Plug and Charge precursor arrangements &#8230; in what you might categorize as a <font color=blue>&#8220;security th<strike>a<\/strike>ing&#8221;<\/font>.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re probably getting the gist here &#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nStick to the day job &#8230; software!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But luckily, yours truly gets inspiration in these &#8220;onboard hardware matters&#8221; from the gumption and fearlessness of my partner!   Yayyy!  So we found ourselves &#8230;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>at the iPhone open with the Ocular App with the RFIDs and the EV Charger while it was not charging, but near The Car when &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><strike id=butler>the butler did it<\/strike> &#8230; no &#8230; at the Ocular App &#8220;My&#8221; tab &#8230;<br \/>\n<img src='\/Mac\/iPhone\/my_look.PNG'><\/img><br \/>\n &#8230; tapped &#8220;My Card&#8221; option &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>tapped &#8220;Bind New Card&#8221; option<\/li>\n<li>filled in a new Card Name<\/li>\n<li>checked the Serial Number of the EV Charger serial number that appeared<\/li>\n<li>tapped &#8220;Bind&#8221; option &#8230;<br \/>\n<img src='\/Mac\/iPhone\/end_look_of_card.PNG'><\/img>\n<\/li>\n<li>waved RFID card in front of front scanner <font size=1>(see image two down)<\/font> &#8230; and the EV Charger beeped &#8230; and the app displayed &#8220;Success&#8221; &#8230; who&#8217;d have thought?!<\/li>\n<li><font color=blue>and this is where security might happen if &#8230;<\/font> back at &#8220;Group&#8221; tab &#8220;EV Charger of interest&#8221; tap screen unchecked Plug and Charge<br \/>\n<img src='\/Mac\/iPhone\/plug_and_play_off.PNG'><\/img><br \/>\n &#8230; <font color=blue>&#8230; meaning to charge you need to wave RFID card in front of front sensor &#8230;<br \/>\n<img src='\/Mac\/iPhone\/front_sensor.jpeg'><\/img><br \/>\n &#8230; of EV charger<\/font><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p> &#8230; and so it made sense to associate car fob with the RFID card as per &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img src='\/Mac\/iPhone\/fob_and_rfid.jpeg'><\/img><\/p>\n<p>If this was interesting you may be interested in <a title='Click here to see topics in which you might be interested' href='#d30150' onclick='var dv=document.getElementById(\"d30150\"); dv.innerHTML = \"&lt;iframe width=670 height=600 src=\" + \"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/tag\/photobooth\" + \"&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\"; dv.style.display = \"block\";'>this<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<div id='d30150' style='display: none; border-left: 2px solid green; border-top: 2px solid green;'><\/div>\n<hr>\n<p>If this was interesting you may be interested in <a title='Click here to see topics in which you might be interested' href='#d74845' onclick='var dv=document.getElementById(\"d74845\"); dv.innerHTML = \"&lt;iframe width=670 height=600 src=\" + \"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/tag\/charge\" + \"&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\"; dv.style.display = \"block\";'>this<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<div id='d74845' style='display: none; border-left: 2px solid green; border-top: 2px solid green;'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We discussed some EV Charging ideas when we presented the recent Ocular EV Charging App RFIDs Primer Tutorial. 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