Hapiversay!

No-one criticised Christianity in this thread.

Store it in the balls.

Spring 1998 vibes frfr no cap

Genuinely happy the Donkey lived.

Remember that documentary about them? https://youtu.be/6PY8C1KmNwM

The solution in my experience is to not bother with any kind of IP connection and try to find a serial port. If you can connect via serial odds are the protocol will have been reverse-engineered already. A cheap microcontroller can get it talking to Home Assistant and then you’ve got a well-maintained, self-hosted and open source way of controlling the system on your terms.

Well, no. It all works and even the shittiest no-brand Chinese tat can reliably run a whole home with an EV or two. The systems I’ve been involved with have either paid for themselves within a couple of years, or are on track to. The problems here are nothing to do with solar and everything to do with poor quality IoT.

I’ve set up a few solar systems (and, I agree, it’s a pretty ambiguous name). Generally speaking, they’re devices that include an MPPT charger (which regulates the power coming from the solar panels), battery charger, and inverter (which produces mains AC), often with a bridge rectifier that also allows the system to accept input from the grid, and a second inverter to supply power back to the grid. It a lot of kit in a compact package, so it’s unsurprising that they come with apps to allow them to be monitored and configured and, sometimes, support for automation in, say, Home Assistant.

And let me tell you: the majority of these things are fucking horrendous. I’ve lost count of the number of cheap Chinese units - with brands like LCERRZOPX and JRXYLNG, or provided whitebox so a fly-by-night European companies with a name like TotalCharge Voltacon Solutions can silkscreen their own logo on - which are guilty of every IoT sin imaginable: no local API or connectivity; plaintext communication to a data center in China; apps that force you to sign up and sends your credentials in clear text; apps that have not been updated since they were released in 2013 and crash constantly; no interface other than that fucking horrible app; and so on. This might seem like a minor thing, but if you’re depending on these things to run your entire house, you need access to that information, but I have to plead with people not to buy them because they’re €50 cheaper than the equivalent from a reputable brand. These devices are susceptible to anyone with a copy of Wireshark, let alone the manufacturers or Chinese government, and they’re just waiting to be exploited.

Incidentally, if anyone is looking at buying something like this, I can’t recommend Victron highly enough. Aside from their kit being high quality, you can access every feature using Bluetooth either from their own app, or a number of other apps that support their published protocols including, of course, Home Assistant.

Probably using it to filter out any chunks.

Idea for a sitcom: Persued by a Bear. A twink Park Ranger works from a ranger’s station next door to the world’s most remote YMCA. Hilarity ensues.

So this guy just forked another project - Proton’s Chatbot app of all things - and the only thing that’s changed is the readme has a bunch of schizophrenic time cube sovereign citizen diarrhea. Some choices were made here, that’s for sure.

Ah, I thought that was a Teen Girl Squad sticker at first.

“They have us fighting a culture war so we don’t fight a class war.”

Hahaha! Classic! Nice one.

Wait. Oh. Oh, no.

They don’t use pounds in the EU, so it’d be kilos of Euros.

That’s all you can saaa-ay! That’s all you can saaa-ay! That’s all you can saaa-ay!

I’ve refined your idea into just launching a Magic 8-Ball into LEO and call it an orbiting data centre. I’m estimating my IPO at nine hundred quintillion dollars.

Even putting aside the absurd expense, impossible power demand, lack of cooling and abundance of hostile radiation, what the fuck is even the point of a data centre in orbit? “Sorry, I can’t access my files right now, the data centre is over the Indian Ocean”. “Yeah, I’ve sent the email - it’ll be delivered in fourty-three hours when the satellite is next in range of London”. Yes, I’m being facetious but what possible benefit could there be for having ten thousand tiny, low-power data centres - of which you can only access one or two at a time - versus the obvious, existing, cheaper, proven alternative?