One of the things about rooftop solar I hadn’t grasped before it was installed is the way this little diagram makes you feel. Specifically, it makes you feel like the solar punk future is basically right here. I want to find a way to get a version of this picture for those who don’t have rooftop solar, to help make the grid more visceral.
@lukasa
Home Assistant's energy dashboard will do it for as few or as many data sources as you have. Mine even shows how much low-carbon electricity I pull from the grid when my solar is below capacity:
@offby1
It's in the energy dashboard, and is reasonably guided. Home Assistant can import data from most US utilities (that's how I get the gas reading), or you can get a ZigBee device to stream from your meter if you want realtime electricity readings. @lukasa
@chrisjrn@offby1 In general Home Assistant seems to be a great one-stop-shop for energy monitoring. You can add various current clamps, for example, and run them in to get energy breakdowns.
I've mostly avoided setting up Home Assistant because I'm worried I'll lose my life to it, but I'm equally worried that I'm slowly rebuilding a crappy bespoke version of everything it can do.
@lukasa@offby1 for what it's worth, I only lose my life for a day or so at a time, and then it fades into the background mostly (even the automations are as anonymous as my physical light switches now)
@chrisjrn@offby1 Yeah I’m also trying to ensure that other people in my house can also deal with the automations and management, so I’ve kept things in HomeKit as best as I could.
@chrisjrn@lukasa@offby1 Migrating to Home Assistant is a long-term goal for me, but I want it to be turnkey; my understanding is that you can get an appliance-style setup where you don't have to be responsible for manually configuring a raspberry pi?
@glyph (ameridroid are based in Ukiah, and economy ground shipping will reach anywhere in the Bay Area overnight, assuming there isn't snow or flooding in Mendocino County) @lukasa@offby1
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