Yup, and this wasn’t fiction https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11846996/

I must be too old school because my first thought when i read this was “with an old solenoid lying around and a few lines of code, an AtTiny could strike a key on the bluetooth keyboard, waking the laptop!

has the Uni of Herts not got any part time jobs? they’re one of the biggest employers in Hatfield.

I operate a rooftop solar power station. While I have scripted all the individual components like battery management, Inverters and the various sinks (for where the power goes when it’s not needed immediately) using Grafana to get alerts, I use automation to activate the various scenes and settings to maximise the useful power I get from the system.

have a look at Shelley smart devices. They have a wifi button that’s fully compatible with Home Assistant. Not the cheapest in the world but the quality is excellent. No Zigbee needed.

https://www.shelly.com/en

you might have to install OSMC in a proxmox virtual machine if you can’t do a bare metal install.

Allbirds mizzles, comfy, stylish and fits right in with the other dads.

i’ve got one and hacked it with an ESP32. it’s awesome, but it’s not a CO2 sensor, it detects fine particles in the air.

do you have a gas meter? surely it would be simpler to capture the operation of the meter either electronically if it’s a smart meter or optically if it has a moving part or dial?

Even if your heating is gas it should be possible to disaggregate that usage by measuring the consumption over a minute or so.

people should be able to protest as long as i’m not inconvenienced

it’s a poppy print thong. respect our servicemen and women

I’ll take “what are circuit breakers for?” for $250 Alex

leave the switches in the wall but bridge the cable so it stays on irrespective of the switch position. or join the cables behind it with some terminal block

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if you’re this concerned about the privacy of your doorbell camera then make your own solution with a raspberry pi. then you’re in full control of the device and data.

anything else can be updated to send video elsewhere, promise privacy features it doesn’t have, be bought out and shareholders demand data mining, or be hacked.

holding hands

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