Hearth Beat

Back Story

We have an old house. Like 100 years old. It has central heating only on the first floor. And its very leaky. I wanted to track as much temperature and humidity data as possible as we made upgrades to see if our changes were helping or not.

We have Apple HomePods in various rooms around the house. That can return temperature and humidity data.

I made a Shortcut that can pull this data and output that information to a text file.

It isn’t possible to have a Shortcut run on a specific cadence (or at least reliably) so I am also using Lingon X to schedule the automation of this Shortcut every hour.

Lastly I manually upload the output of this Shortcut to Observable once a week.

Notebook

I’m using the Plot library from Observable to chart this data to see if we are getting better or worse over time.

This is very much a work in progress and I have lots of ideas on how to improve.

Give the Observable Notebook a browse.