@geerlingguy have you looked into Meshtastic at all? I feel like you and your dad could put out some awesome videos about maximising range for LoRa nodes that the Meshtastic crowd would love (and it would bring a lot of attention to the hobby too!)
So I'm having to park closer to the wall of our driveway as my Dad now has a Van he uses for work which is taking up room.
Side effect being it was a rather tight squish plugging the cable for my car to charge in.
To resolve this I've made it semi teathered, a few cable clips from Screwfix and a 3D Printed holder for the cable and voila. It actually looks rather neat.
Downside is I need to get a second cable for public charging, which I rarely do.
Why didn't you get a teathered charger? At the time I fitted this one I had a Vauxhall Ampera that used a Type 1 connector, but I knew there was a chance of going back to full electric and needing a Type 2 cable. Hence socketed making more sense.
Is the 3D Printed holder waterproof enough? I'm not sure yet but should know in about a day. It's printed in PETG so should be decent enough.
I promised a follow up, we've had a shitton of rain and a little drip got in the bottom of it. But this design was double walled so the pins area is fully dry along with the insides.
@Mehrad Admittidly not my design, I think I might leave it for now as if I drill a hole through then it'd potentially allow water to collect inside a bit easier.
As for insects should be fairly fine, I used to have a teathered charger a fair few years ago and wasn't an issue.
I struggle (I think possibly due to my Dyspraxia) getting the wires in the right order when making an ethernet cable and interested if that style would be easier.
@ahnlak Looks about that, but if this is your businesses shopfront then £25 is fuck all.
Decent wordpress hosting isn't much cheaper, plus by the time you pay for whatever widgets and have 50 plugins conflicting with eachother how much money do you really save?
@revk This reminds me when we had a sky engineer out for a box upgrade.
They refused to just swap the box as I had just used a generic figure of 8 power lead and HDMI cable. Instead insisting that he had to replace it with Sky branded ones otherwise it wouldn't work.
@CenturyAvocado@che5hire it's an E13. But yeah I had Motorola's a fair few years ago that did the same hello Moto although I think it respected silent mode.
However just found the setting to turn it off so hopefully that'll resolve it.
Mainly because it was only a few minutes. Had it been (so the battery estimated) 19 hours (assuming no sunshine) then I could have felt smug, and offered neighbours cups of tea.
But being so short we had a very brief blip before the battery switched over. That meant some devices (light control mostly) froze up, and I had to manually power cycle lighting circuits. I may have to upgrade them as the ESP32 ones seem better.
@ahnlak@revk One thing I'd possibly say is to future proof your solar inverter by getting one that can have a battery hooked up later.
We've now considered getting a small battery (just to tide over the periods sometimes when solar dips) but we'd either need to replace the solar inverter for the best effeciency, or install a second just for the battery.
