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Matter is the the new standard making your smart home devices talking to each other and some Apple Home hubs can be updated. There is a nice article from "The Verge" which explains it all. Using Homebridge (HB) it could be nice to know what happens when you upgrade your HomeKit hub to the new standard so  his post will just give some quick tips Here is  a support article from Apple and please note that if you upgrade you will not be able to use an iPad as a Home hub anymore.

In this post I will give some thoughts, high level, and methods for matching the hourly prices from your energy supplier. I will also list some gadgets and by using NodeRed ,  get the data, visualize it and control the consumption. So in that perspective there are some needed prerequisites.....