On Friday we got our annual treat: half a lamb from a farm near us. We made rosemary, chilli and garlic butter, roast potatoes, cavolo nero, cauliflower and carrots with lamb chops. The chops are as fresh and tasty as can be, simply great!
The Matter connectivity and interoperability standard was launched with great aplomb in November by Amazon, Apple, Samsung, Google, and hundreds of other companies. It’s designed to solve the issue of connectivity among smart home devices and platforms once and for all, offering a single communication protocol that everything,...
As somebody who remembers and had to work with OSI standard protocols by ISO, I’ve always related with this xkcd. There is a place for standards in physical things that need to work together, connectors etc. Same for regulated resources, such as radio frequencies. Anything in software is in my view better served by de facto standards.
Here are the main components of my system, which has become a bit of a collection over the years:
Home Assistant on RPi
zwave USB stick
a number of lights, switches and multi sensors on the zwave network
A cluster of four RPis for various scheduled and transient tasks (data ETL, solar energy forecast model training and forecast generation, house battery and EV charge planning and execution, scraping and processing council bin collection schedule)
two RPis handling motorised curtains and cooling fans in home cinema
three ESP2866s running ESPHome controlling relays for switching sauna, floor heating and water immersion heating on/off
ten ESP32s running WLED controlling LED strips inside and out
I’m using the RPis in a few roles in relation to the solar panels. I collect daily solar production data from the inverter. The data is energy produced per hour. I also collect from Met Office model weather forecast data for our home location. This data is also per hour and I’m using 10+ parameters the forecast model provides. I learn every night a GP Regression model from the solar and weather forecast data. Learning every night ensures I always use the lates data available in the model. The GPR model allows me to estimate solar production tomorrow given a Met Office model forecast. I then use this estimate in various ways in decision-making, for example how much to use cheap electricity overnight to charge house and car batteries, i.e. how much headroom to leave in the batteries so that I’m unlikely to waste excess solar energy.
For a very brief moment I considered turning my experience in home energy management into a business. Then I woke up and realised I’d be facing either house retrofitting or new build business, and all the companies involved in those. Nope.
We’ve all seen the JSO protests in various events. I’d like to think a good number of people here agree with the point they are making while being uncomfortable about the way they make the point....
I stopped drinking alcohol some years ago. Before that I hardly consumed any alcohol at all for many years, but in my college years and maybe some years after that, I drank socially like “everybody else”. But I gradually kind of got tired of dealing with the bad feelings (physical and emotional), so I drank less and less....
Where is everybody? by Stephen Webb is a great read on the topic. It explains 50 solutions, some serious and others not so, to the Fermi paradox. My favourite is that the aliens are already here, and we just call them Hungarians.
The history of computers and software is full of nerdy and obscure jokes well beyond the caricatures of exiting vim. Complier compiler (explain that to most people!) to yet another compiler compiler to bison is one of those....
I really do like KBin and Lemmy and the fediverse on the whole, but development is still young and the userbase still growing. KBin is still basically early access, and Lemmy is buggy. I spent alot of time in reddit and I'm feeling the pain of trying to ween myself from it. Just wanted to here community perspectives and see how...
I'll never not want to (startrek.website)
Lamb straight from a farm
On Friday we got our annual treat: half a lamb from a farm near us. We made rosemary, chilli and garlic butter, roast potatoes, cavolo nero, cauliflower and carrots with lamb chops. The chops are as fresh and tasty as can be, simply great!
In the smart home of 2023, it turns out Matter simply doesn't matter (www.techradar.com)
The Matter connectivity and interoperability standard was launched with great aplomb in November by Amazon, Apple, Samsung, Google, and hundreds of other companies. It’s designed to solve the issue of connectivity among smart home devices and platforms once and for all, offering a single communication protocol that everything,...
What is a street name you would want to see in your city?
Today GNU/Linux is 32 years old (lemmy.ml)
Happy birthday 🎊🎉 GNU/Linux....
What's your smart home set-up?
As we’re trending, I thought I’d lean into it and see what everyone is using.
How would you protest without turning people against you
We’ve all seen the JSO protests in various events. I’d like to think a good number of people here agree with the point they are making while being uncomfortable about the way they make the point....
Anyone else gradually stopped drinking alcohol?
I stopped drinking alcohol some years ago. Before that I hardly consumed any alcohol at all for many years, but in my college years and maybe some years after that, I drank socially like “everybody else”. But I gradually kind of got tired of dealing with the bad feelings (physical and emotional), so I drank less and less....
Might be the best film I've seen this year (lemmy.world)
If people using Reddit are called Redditors, then what do we call people who use Lemmy?
Lemmyers? Lemmurs?...
How old is our universe? New study says Big Bang might have happened 27 billion years ago (www.usatoday.com)
A study published this week in an astronomical journal suggests our universe could be 26.7 billion years old, or about twice as old as we thought.
Where did the name Bison come from anyway?
The history of computers and software is full of nerdy and obscure jokes well beyond the caricatures of exiting vim. Complier compiler (explain that to most people!) to yet another compiler compiler to bison is one of those....
First time he came to snuggle (i.imgur.com)
Cannot believe I see him everywhere here (lemmy.world)
Heinz sales numbers must be up
Heinz bean getting a lot of free advertising lately.
What made you pick the Lemmy server you are on?
Does it actually matter?
Is there any one else who feels like their life has been disrupted by this whole debacle with Reddit. (kbin.social)
I really do like KBin and Lemmy and the fediverse on the whole, but development is still young and the userbase still growing. KBin is still basically early access, and Lemmy is buggy. I spent alot of time in reddit and I'm feeling the pain of trying to ween myself from it. Just wanted to here community perspectives and see how...
If people use it and they don't post or comment, it could go dark (i.imgflip.com)
Poopers (lemmy.ca)