Simon Hackett

Energy Autopilot is a startup I founded to create an innovative Home Energy Management System (“HEMS”).

We are putting the finishing touches on a substantial battery upgrade at The Vale at the moment.

Update: 25 July 2023: “Epilogue” This is an epilogue, to document the outcome, in fairness to Qantas.

On 25 Jan 2023 I held a tour of The Vale’s energy system ( https://aeva.asn.au/events/450/) for members of AEVA in Tasmania.

Do you have AXIS web cameras?

Subtitle: “Ubiquiti Auto-Optimise Breaks stuff again” (it is also responsible for this).

I’m writing this down in the hope that someone else trying to solve this issue via some random ‘Googling’ may find this article and that it may save them some time… compared to how long it took me to solve this!

The other day, I was talking with someone about the wonders (and the satisfaction) of operating a large renewable energy system at our Tasmanian farm, and how I get to charge up my electric motor glider and go flying on sunshine, and how we’ll replace all…

I delivered a (virtual) talk at a recent (August 2021) battery technology conference in South Africa.

I’ve recently received my first SpaceX Starlink connection kit and fired it up in the wilds of Adelaide, South Australia.