First of all, I wasn’t sure where to categorise this post so please let me know and I’ll move it or repost it.
I work for a company that designs and installs a variety of different hot water solutions ranging from residential to commercial scale. We use a variety of energy sources including solar PV, solar thermal, heat pumps and gas.
Our manufacturing facility has a display area where we have a variety of hot water plants running that we use to showcase what we do to clients and to train plumbers/installers.
(And before you think this is a blatant waste of water and energy—we are net-zero and recycle the water used in display systems.)
What we’d like to do is have a TV or large monitor in the display area where we can show clients each system’s performance currently and over the past week/month.
Types of variables we’d like to monitor are:
- Electricity usage
- PV usage
- Gas uasge
- Water usage
- Water temperature
- Possibly even water/gas flow
Some of our products have their own data outputs for BMS systems that I can easily interface with a RPi or ESP8266 to publish to a MQTT broker or some other protocol.
Obviously this will require all sorts of different hardware to monitor each variable, but is this something that Home Assistant can do? Or should I be looking for a more powerful commercial solution?