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[?]roman » 🌐
@hi@romanzolotarev.com

tried home assistant for energy management. its codebase is bloated and ui is unpolished.

i just want to replace it with a few scripts and plain text logs. feels like all i need is to fetch price and weather forecasts and pull/push some modbus registers...

what do you use for your smart homes?

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[?]Geffrey van der Bos » 🌐
@geffrey@id.geff.re

@hi Mqtt and n8n, used NodeRed too.

[?]Flaki [he/him] » 🌐
@flaki@flaki.social

@hi yeah the more my solar setup evolves the more I want to hand-roll the monitoring/dashboard part :blobcat_grin:

People have a lot of good to say about solar-assistant.io - it's a one-time-payment but I'm planning to look into it at some point.

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    [?]Flaki [he/him] » 🌐
    @flaki@flaki.social

    @hi iirc @hywan hand-rolled some (most?) of their stuff for lamaisonvivante.blog/

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      [?]roman » 🌐
      @hi@romanzolotarev.com

      after looking at many energy management solutions i just want to write a few simple shell scripts, log things into plain text files, and cron jobs on my box ;)

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        [?]Flaki [he/him] » 🌐
        @flaki@flaki.social

        @hi I'm *particularly* annoyed at how bad HA is at integrating weather (forecasting etc.) and other metadata. It feels like you could get a lot more out of your systems/batteries if you had better foresight into weather patterns.

        Until I connected my car charger I didn't have any sufficient loads to keep my batteries from sitting at 100% at 8AM, but now that I do, intelligently dumping solar into the car's battery but making sure there is enough left in case of bad weather looming around the corner would be awesome.

        And I will probably have to handroll it all :woozy:

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          [?]roman » 🔓
          @hi@romanzolotarev.com

          part of me feels bad about rewriting tools just for my own use, but i also rarely find software that does one thing and does it well...

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