• starman2112@sh.itjust.works
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    10 months ago

    See this is why I have hope for the future, zoomers are out here having ideas that I’d never even thought of. That’s genius, and I bet you could make that with $20 worth of electronics and two hours on YouTube

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      10 months ago

      This is what I do. Monitor power consumption with home assistant and a 15 buck wifi plug. If the value falls below a certain threshhold for a few minutes, homeassistantt sends a notification to my app.

      All local, no cloud, easy, cheap.

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        10 months ago

        Which plugs are you using? I was thinking of getting load detectors for my electrical box

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          10 months ago

          I have Nous A1T with Tasmota firmware (they are available pre-flashed) for the normal power sockets and Shelly 1PM for in-wall Installation. Both work with home assistant flawlessly.

          Edit: Shelly tries to communicate with outside servers (cant remember exactly which one, might only be time server and update server, but unsure) so they are in a VLAN without Internet connection)