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egeek

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egeek Oct 25, 2024

Do you have any pricing info available? All I can see is get started for free, but no info on what it might cost later
egeek Oct 9, 2024

Not even 24 hours since the last outage - https://status.heroku.com/incidents/2684
egeek Apr 2, 2023

It might be that it's just the regulator that's different (the bit that connects to the cylinder). If you haven't already then it could be worth getting in touch with their support. I had a broken glass window on my oven, the replacement was never in stock, so they sent me a whole new door with glass for free.
egeek Sep 30, 2022

I have a Solis inverter [0], while it has WiFi built in, and we have the data logging dongle, it doesn't need to be connected to the internet to function, and you can configure the dongle to talk to MQTT locally (but I haven't done this).
It doesn't need to be connected to the internet during configuration either, we set it up and got it going before connecting the data logger to it.
That said, I do use their portal to see my generation and consumption. It's pretty handy. But I also do scrape their data and store it locally as well.
[0] https://www.ginlong.com/rhi_3pinverter1/29118.html
* I'm not affiliated with them in any way, it's just the one we have
egeek Sep 13, 2022

No, we don't observe it at all, in either community. Halloween is bigger here, and observed by both main communities, it's probably close enough to 5th November that we've just ended up forgetting about Guy Fawkes.
Plus it's taught in school as an English event, and we have enough of our own history going on in the early 1600s.
egeek Sep 13, 2022

As per a sibling reply, are you referring to Guy Fawkes night? We don't really observe that at all in Northern Ireland, it's an English thing.
It's also neither a holiday in Northern Ireland[0] nor England [1]
[0] https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/bank-holidays
[1] https://www.gov.uk/bank-holidays
egeek Sep 12, 2022

As a person from Northern Ireland, I'm not sure what holiday you're referring to.
Closest I can think of is the 12th July, which is a holiday, but not one celebrating burning Catholics[0]. You might be referring to the bonfires that are lit on the 11th, but that's not a holiday.
Aside from some small events in Scotland, the 12th July is not celebrated in the rest of the UK.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twelfth
egeek Apr 27, 2022
Yes it's huge, but not out of the question for some people who go all in on some things in their house.
For example, in my place right now:
```
  - Unifi rack (some switches, cameras, other PoE stuff) - 335W
  - Servers (home automation, NAS, etc) - 426W
```
That's all the time, Unifi actually goes up at night when the IR LEDs come on in the cameras.
egeek Apr 27, 2022

There's an energy monitor with 16 CT clamps included, you put one on each of the circuits coming from the fuse board. 16 is more than enough for most UK houses, which would at least let you know which circuits are consuming the power.
egeek Apr 27, 2022

Your math is right, if you're not recording at night then you can switch it off at night (we switch one of ours off at night on a timer)

egeek Apr 27, 2022

So I got into this a bit over the past year, and put a SmartThings socket behind just about everything in the house. Not so much for the cost saving (which will take forever at £29 for each of the SmartThings sockets), but more to understand where the power is being used so that we can run for longer on solar + batteries.

There's a range of devices that consume practically nothing when they are in standby mode, these include:

  - Phone chargers (0 - 1W)
  - Projectors (0 - 1W)
  - TVs (0 - 3W for the ones we have)
  - Laptops (3 - 4W for the ones we have)
  - AV amps e.g. Denon (2W)
  - Coffee Machine e.g. Jura (4W)
  - Printers (0 - 1W)

There's a bunch of low powered devices that stay on all the time

  - Amazon Echo Show (4W)
  - Presumably the Echos without a screen but I haven't tested them

If I turned all of these two groups off in the house when we are not using them then we might save close to the £30/year, but we have a lot of them and it's not worth the effort.

There's some devices that you have to keep running, but will cycle, these are typically fridges and freezers.

  - Pretty much all around 1W sleep
  - 2 year old full height fridge - peaks at 49W for 7 minutes ever 30 mins or so
  - 2 year old full height freezer - peaks at 75W for 10 minutes ever 45 mins or so
  - 1 year old chest freezer - peaks at 76W for 12 minutes every 30 mins or so
  - 10 year old half height fridge - peaks at 66W for 30 minutes ever 120 mins or so
  - 2 year old half height wine fridge - load isn't smooth, spikes and goes back down, average of about 100W for 10 minutes every 60 mins or so
  - 10 year old combined full height fridge and freezer - 110W for 17 mins every 50 mins or so

There's not much you can do about these (well I could remove some) but they need to stay on.

Then there's some things that can be reduced:

  - I usually walk away from my laptop and leave it running. The external monitor goes to sleep, but the laptop itself continues to use 33W when left like this. If I put it to sleep instead it would go close to 0. Assuming that I leave it like this for 12 hours each evening, that's 0.033kW \* 0.22p/kWh \* 365days \* 12hours = £31.80 - with this change alone I can hit the headline figures
  - We have a Virgin Media Box and an XBox One X, I haven't separated their power usage, they both draw in their sleep/standby mode, but together they are using 38W when in standby. Using the formula above, switching them off for 12 hours would save £36.61
  - Lights, yes, they are only 0.5W each for the Philips Hue, but we've 32 of them in the kitchen alone. That's 16W in standby, for say an average of 18 hours a day over the year when they aren't being used. £20.56 for the kitchen lights to be "off".

Problem with these articles are that some older folk in older houses go round switching off the telly rather than using standby on the remote. That's fine, you might save £1 or £2 over the course of the year, but the house is old, the sockets are close to the floor, the risk of you tripping/falling is much higher. It's never worth it to save £1.

Where it does make sense is people who have a few consoles in the house, leaving them in standby mode (particularly the one where it can download updates in the background), or just walking away from their computer and not putting it to sleep properly. Switch it off instead and you'll save the headline figures easily.

(edited for formatting)

egeek Feb 17, 2022

It'll be easy to find the Shellys. Just look for light switches that don't cause the light to turn on or off, or lights that turn on randomly. We put a Shelly 2 on every light switch in our new build 2 years ago (about 30 Shellys) and over 50% of them have already failed.
Usually its either the relay refusing to switch on or off. Or its able to switch on and off via the app, but not via a light switch that it was happily doing the day before. Or it disappears off the WiFi and refuses to connect no matter how many resets / power cycles are done.
After replacing 10 or so of them, I decided it was easier to rip them all out.
egeek Feb 11, 2022

At least on my older mag safe charger, only 2 pins are connected. You can pull off the UK plug and plug in the US or EU one, or even just a regular figure 8 lead (not sure of the correct name for these!)
Had a few times where I've had to disconnect the charger as I could feel an effect like static electricity on the metal case of the MacBook.
egeek Jan 17, 2022

The story seems to be about England, but the monitors are being rolled out to other areas as well by the other departments. For example, Northern Ireland [0], and Scotland [1],[2]. It's anecdotal, but the monitors have started to arrive in my kids schools here in Northern Ireland.
[0] - BBC News - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-58790302
[1] - Scottish Parliament Report - https://www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-committees/committee...
[2] - Scottish COVID guidance for schools - https://education.gov.scot/media/ttkbrnde/reducing-risks-in-...
(edited to break up the links)
egeek Jun 10, 2021

Is there somewhere where we can suggest/vote for the next integrations? I can only seem to find a message that you are adding more integrations. We'd love to see Microsoft/Office 365 integration, and GitLab.
The tool looks awesome, exactly the right kind of metrics, without the invasive accounting for every second that others have tried to enforce in the past! Excellent work!
egeek Feb 16, 2021

Have you tried reaching out to Dell on the chat? We buy the Precision laptops in Switzerland, and there's a number of keyboard options (including US)[0]. I checked Dell UK for a similar device [1] but they only have German, UK or French listed.
[0] - https://www.dell.com/de-ch/work/shop/notebooks/neu-xps-15/sp...
[1] - https://www.dell.com/en-uk/work/shop/laptop-computers-for-bu...
(edited for formatting of references)
egeekuk Aug 18, 2018

I did some training with the Equality Commission in Northern Ireland some time ago, and since then I've been actively ignoring anything that people put on their CVs that is not relevant to the position they have applied for. Aside from experience and education background, additional information should be limited to facts that are relevant to the position (e.g. do you need a work permit, can you speak the same language as the rest of the team)
I wish people would stop including the information as then it takes away the risk that they can't later claim that they didn't get the job because of their age, sex, martial status, etc.
They have some guidance on how to encourage equal opportunities in the job application process [0], the monitoring questions here [1] should be seen as things that should not be asked in a standard application process, nor included in a CV.
There's many attributes that we can't legally discriminate against when someone applies for a position [2]. We might be a little more aware of trying to ensure the process is fair and balanced, and it's certainly quite different from other parts of the UK and Europe.
[0] https://www.equalityni.org/ECNI/media/ECNI/Publications/Empl...
[1] https://www.equalityni.org/Employers-Service-Providers/Small...
[2] https://www.nibusinessinfo.co.uk/content/equality-law-and-ty...
*edit - fixed formatting of references
egeekuk Jan 16, 2018

Maybe the credit card bills that people ran up in December have come in, and they're selling their holdings to settle them.
egeekuk Sep 8, 2017

Might just be me, but I read this as ~2 kilometers, rather than the intended ~2,000 miles.
2 points Aug 25, 2017

HMRC brings winding-up order against Belfast beer technology business Brewbot

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