
EcoBack Local Climate and Energy Tools
io.github.f-tigerv1.1.0Updated Oct 10, 2026
Local climate and energy calculators with optional public weather and guide lookup for Germany/EU.
Overview
Local calculators for indoor climate and household energy in Germany/EU, with optional weather and guide lookup.
- What it does
- Provides nine tools covering room cooling capacity in BTU, portable-AC window seal length, heating power in watts, appliance running costs, dew-point ventilation advice, and a three-day heatwave outlook for German cities. It also searches and returns the full text of 133 site guides on air conditioning, sealing, ventilation, heating and electricity costs. Answers are meant to mirror the published calculators and carry a source URL.
- When to use it
- Useful when an assistant has to answer practical German or EU household questions about room size versus cooling or heating capacity, window sealing, ventilation timing, or the cost of running an appliance. Also handy when a citable guide text is wanted alongside the number.
- Requirements
- Runs as a local process over stdio; the README shows an npx invocation with no declared dependencies, and the manifest lists no environment variables, headers or authentication. The heatwave tool needs network access to a public weather service. A hosted HTTP endpoint is also described in the README.
Installation
In SourceWeft
- Open EcoBack Local Climate and Energy Tools in the dashboard and add it to a workspace.
- Enable the server for the chats that should use its tools.
Desktop only via STDIO. STDIO servers start a local process, so they need the SourceWeft desktop host.
Other MCP clients
Follow the launch instructions in the repository.
README
EcoBack Raumklima — MCP server
9 tools for **indoor climate and household energy in Germany/EU**: how many BTU aroom needs, how long a portable-AC window seal has to be, whether a heatwave is coming, what a device costs to run, when it is safe to ventilate, and which balcony-storage subsidies exist. Plus full-text search and retrieval over 133 guides.
Listed in the official
MCP Registry
as io.github.f-tiger/hvac-btu-heat-klimaanlage.
The tool table below is not hand-written: sync.mjs rebuilds it from the live server's
tools/list every day.
Connect
Hosted — nothing to install, no auth, no personal data:
Or run it yourself — src/ is the server, over stdio, with zero dependencies:
(The shorter npx getecoback-mcp starts working once the package is published to
npm; the GitHub form above needs nothing and works today.)
Setup notes for other clients: https://getecoback.com/mcp.html ·
discovery: /.well-known/mcp.json
The two versions are kept honest by a parity test: npm test calls every deterministic
tool both locally and on the hosted endpoint and fails if a single character differs. It
runs on every push and daily — this code is a port of logic that runs in a Cloudflare
Worker, and ports drift silently.
Tools
| geraet_wahl | Which device family solves a given indoor-climate problem (too hot, damp/mould, too cold, stale air), with the honest physics, the right size for the room and the matching guide. The decision layer above btu_empfehlung/heizleistung_watt. |
| btu_empfehlung | Recommended cooling capacity in BTU for a room, with the matching device class: how many BTU do I need for X m²? Same formula as the calculator on getecoback.com (340 BTU/m² × sun factor), for Germany and Europe. |
| fensterabdichtung_laenge | Required window-seal length for a portable air conditioner from the sash measurements (perimeter = 2×(width+height)), plus the off-the-shelf size that fits. Covers tilt-and-turn and roof windows. |
| hitzewelle_vorschau | Live heatwave outlook for Germany: highest temperature over the next three days across Berlin, Frankfurt and Munich (open-meteo), flagged from 28 °C and 32 °C. |
| klimaanlage_stromkosten | Running cost of an air conditioner or any appliance: watts × hours × electricity price × compressor duty cycle. What does it cost to run per hour, per day, per month? |
| heizleistung_watt | Required heating power in watts for a room, from floor area and insulation standard (60/80/100 W/m² for new build, existing, old building), including running cost per full-load hour. |
| taupunkt_lueften | Dew point of the outside air and whether opening the window right now would make a basement or damp room wetter (Magnus formula, walls counted 2 °C below room temperature). |
| ratgeber_suche | Searches this site's guides on air conditioning, window sealing, ventilation, heating, dehumidifiers and electricity costs, returning title, URL and summary for each match — citable sources for the answer. |
| ratgeber_lesen | Returns the full plain text of one guide from getecoback.com so the answer can be written from the source and cited. Pass a path or URL from ratgeber_suche. |
What makes the answers safe to quote
- Same arithmetic as the published calculators. Each tool mirrors a calculator that runs on the website, so an assistant's answer and the page a reader lands on cannot disagree. A CI job calls all 9 tools against production daily and asserts each returns the value the published calculator shows.
- Every answer carries its source URL and the disclosure that the site is funded by Amazon affiliate links, so a quoting assistant passes both along.
- Honest about what it is not. Product recommendations summarise public tests; nothing is lab-tested here, and the tools say so. Subsidy figures are magnitudes with a date, never a promise — programme budgets empty mid-year.
- No personal data, no auth, no cookies. The server stores the tool name and arguments for adoption counting, nothing about the caller.
Also machine-readable
Every page also serves Markdown to clients that ask for it:
Licence
Documentation: CC BY 4.0 — free to use with attribution to
getecoback.com. sync.mjs is additionally MIT. See LICENSE.
Not engineering, legal or subsidy advice.
Source: README.md at commit 6c41b53
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