Home Automation

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Home automation is the residential extension of building automation.

It is automation of the home, housework or household activity.

Home automation may include centralized control of lighting, HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning), appliances, security locks of gates and doors and other systems, to provide improved convenience, comfort, energy efficiency and security.

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Tasmota power on counter possible? (alien.top)

submitted 2 years ago by Ok_Environment_5368@alien.top to c/homeautomation@selfhosted.forum

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Not rally home automation but I figured people on here would know what Tasmota is capable of and whether or not it can do what I am looking for.

Basically I'm in a situation where it would be helpful to have something that could plug into a standard UK socket and just record how many times the power to the plug is switched off/on.

I had a google and found some posts suggesting that Tasmota could be setup to increment a counter whenever it powers up.

I've had a try but couldn't get it working, I don't know if its because of something I am doing wrong of if i misunderstood what I was reading.

So, can Tasmota update a counter, and store it between power cycles? And if so could someone please point me to how to do it?

Thanks.

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[–] Ok_Environment_5368@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

NVM, I figured out where I was going wrong.

The counter option wasn't available until I set one of the spare inputs as a counter input.