My house thinks for itself – here's how
What this channel is about, how topics and levels fit together, and why the map is still mostly grey.
Series 1 · Power Flow Logic
How a house learns to think
My house decides for itself when to charge the battery, how warm to heat and which heat source to use. Here I open up the system and show you the logic behind it. Including everything that went wrong.
Questions a house asks itself
- When should the battery charge from the grid?
- How warm does the house need to be tonight?
- Will tomorrow be sunny enough, or not?
- Heat pump or gas, right now?
My house asks questions like these all day long, and answers them on its own. Not because it's magic, but because I spent just under a year teaching it how to think.
What happens here
Sensors in, decision out
Every decision follows the same pattern. Sensors deliver values. Functions check them, weigh them up and plan ahead. At the end there's an action: charge, wait, heat, or switch something off.
Input
What the house measures: sun, battery, temperatures, prices.
Function
What it makes of it: checks, forecasts, learners, a plan.
Output
What it does: a set point, a switch, a schedule.
What you can expect
Always the why
Every rule, every number and every decision comes with a reason.
Honest about failures
What didn't work gets shown too, with the reason and the way to a solution that works.
No sales pitch
The lab isn't built to sell, but servers, tools and time do cost money. So later on there will be a few in-depth deep dives with code packages for a small, fair price. The first episodes and their basics stay free, and there are no savings promises or percentages pulled out of thin air.
Two ways through the content
You decide how deep you go
Every topic comes in three levels. Even at level 1 you won't miss anything important. Levels 2 and 3 are there for when you want to know exactly why.
Thinking House Lab Channel trailer · Online
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Storage & dynamic prices
When should the battery charge, and from where?
- Understandcoming soon
- Look insidecoming soon
- Rebuildcoming soon
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Using solar surplus
What do you do with sunshine when the battery is already full?
- Understandplanned
- Look insideplanned
- Rebuildplanned
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Combining heating systems
Which heat source is the cheapest right now, and how does the house know?
- Understandcoming soon
- Look insideplanned
- Rebuildplanned
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Control that's actually smart
What separates a system that thinks from one that's merely labelled “smart”?
- Understandplanned
- Look insideplanned
- Rebuildplanned
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Building software with AI
What happens when an AI is your development partner?
- Understandplanned
- Look insideplanned
- Rebuildplanned
Latest videos
All videosWhen is electricity actually cheap?
My battery was 99 % full, and the system switched off the heat pump anyway. Why? Because it asked the wrong question about price.
What went wrong is part of it
A lot went wrong along the way, and I'll show that too. Always with the reason, and with the way to a solution that works. Mistakes like these teach more than any success story.
- A sensor value that looked perfectly fine, but hadn't changed in 16 hours.
- A restart that briefly sent “zero” to the inverters. The house went dark.
- A tidy fix, complete with tests, that invented solar power from roof areas without a single panel.
Not a product. Ideas.
I'm not selling a ready-made system. My system is built for my own hardware, and yours is different. But the thinking behind it works everywhere: in a home automation setup, in your own code, or in a prompt for your AI.
Your experience counts
Which system runs in your house, and where does it get stuck? I'd like to hear about your experiences, your doubts and your ideas, in the comments under the videos. Good ideas get picked up and built in public: as a video of their own or as an addition to an existing one.
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