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#Possibly also a p1 reader or similar if you want data directly from your utilities
newkiqx
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10 months
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Installed a sensor on my girl so i know when
#Funy jokey
#I've become addicted to cheap zigbee switches and sensors
#I set this up so the air conditioner in our bedroom will stop running when the bucket is almost full theres something wrong with me
#It works too and i love it :')
#Next up is a small switched pump that will pump the water out for a set amount of time
#Directly to the balcony plants
#Our windowsill is too high up to run the condensed water out with gravity sadly so some kind of reservoir with sensor and pump has to do
#Also planning a dedicated channel for outside air directly to the compressor with some kind of blowback valve
#I hate mobile acs for how they are designed but there are no good high capacity mobile acs on the market yet
#This should mitigate most of the issues though
#The main issue is the lack of separation of compression and expansion stages which is why you should use outside air for the former
#AND i have an hourly energy price contract which means i should switch the ac on/of on a set of preset conditions
#I love tinkering and this is both pretty cheap and actually rewarding us with much better sleep during heat waves & less fuss
#Also electricity savings
#I put a bunch of stuff on this kind of sensing/logic already and its so nice to see your expenses go down with little to no impact
#I feel like such a dad even though i dont have any kids
#All of this is completely local and relatively cheap to set up but you have to like tinkering a little
#Hmu if you want some advice i can point you away from large cloud based nonsense & help with initial startup
#The two investments are a raspberry pi and a zigbee dongle
#Possibly also a p1 reader or similar if you want data directly from your utilities
#And after that most investments should be 10 dollars max per sensor or switch and most of the ali ones will work
#And even have fancy features like somewhat accurately displaying power usage and current
#Sorry for extremely rambly long tags i just get excited sometimes
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