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  • SkyNTP@lemmy.mltohomeassistant@lemmy.worldEnergy usage clamp meters
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    2 months ago

    I’m using off-the shelf CT-clamps with an ESP. Obviously it’s a fair amount more work, but it’s cheaper than a commercial solution, fully offline and no subscriptions, you know exactly what you are getting, and you can build a solution that is just the right size for your application, and infinitely modifiable if your needs change.








  • Before I understood Docker, I used to have HA installed directly on bare metal side by side with other “desktop” apps.

    To be able to access devices, HA needs many different OS-level configurations (users, startup, binding serial ports, and much more I don’t have a clue about). It was a giant mess. The bare OS configuration was polluted with HA configurations. Worse, on updating HA, not only did these configurations change, the installation of HA changed enough that every update would break HA and even the bare OS would break in some ways because of configuration conflicts.

    Could this be managed properly through long term migration? Yeah, probably, but this is probably a ton of work, for which a purpose-built solution already exists: Docker. Between that and the extra layer of security afforded by dedicating an OS to HA (bare metal or virtualized), discouraging the installation of HA in a non-dedicated environment was a no brainer.




  • The thing holding me back is multi monitor support. It’s just atrocious on Linux (and has been for a long time). I have issues with:

    • can’t duplicate screens (“not supported” huh?),
    • random screen not detected,
    • broken layout when screen changed,
    • flickering and constant layout changes

    Not sure if anyone has tips? NVIDIA and Intel displays, scarred to even try VR.








  • Asking your employer for more compensation because you are exerting more effort due to inexperience isn’t so different than a AAA studio charging high fees for a crappy product because of corporate bullshit and inefficiency.

    In fact, these two things tend to be two sides of the same coin.