Anyone in Ireland to share best practices?

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Hi all,

I’m living in Ireland and I was wondering if there is other people here to share experiences in the journey of Smart Homes.

I hope I will start a new project (new smart home soon) and I would like to share any info we can about best practices in Ireland. My idea is to use Shelly devices for example and ESPHome.

Will be really good to connect locally as well.

thanks

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Hi I am also living in Ireland (Tipperary) and am interested in using Home Assistant personally, and also related to my work (for a UK organisation which uses Home Assistant). Particularly interested in attempts to connect Home Assistant with ESB network smart meters - I can see some activity here Reddit - Dive into anything but not sure how to implement this.

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I just created a google group mailing list for Dublin to see if we can find enough HA users to maybe have a meetup. https://groups.google.com/g/smart-home-dublin

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And Seán’s google list resulted in a first online meetup last night.
There were 7 people there, but it’s a start!

@ElaineBaker - I’m in Meath and have been using a Frient Electricity Meter Interface for two years now with no problems to report. It’s the LED version rather than the P1 port version, because ESB haven’t activated the port yet.

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That’s great @niallb I would love to learn how to do that with my own smart meter. Would be able to give me some pointers or step by step instructions?

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Hi there!
I see you’ve joined us over on the Irish Smart Home discussion.
I can post some photos for you and let you know what else you might need.

Talk to you soon!
NiallB

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Hi There, I’m in Longford and interested too.

Regards

Mick

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I’d be interested also. Dublin based

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so I’m waiting to be added/approved to be in the Smart Home Dublin Group at . https://groups.google.com/g/smart-home-dublin that Sean created.

In the meanwhile I thought I’d mention the Home Assistant Ireland Community Group on Facebook and also the #smarthome channel on irishtechcommunity.slack.com which can be quite active.

Not trying to splinter any groups here - just some people might prefer slack over google groups or facebook, just trying to do my bit to help grow all the smart home related groups for folks here in Ireland.