Using Home Assistant in a botanical garden

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"No vendor sells you a product for that gap, because the gap spans two vendors. So nobody can cross-examine the building. Including you, who owns it."

Power monitoring is surprisingly effective. Open data is better but a few shelly/whatever devices works even for dumb devices.

I'm convinced power monitoring should always start from the grid connection. In our case, this was a 10KV connection which we could not access without the grid operator. So getting the data from them was the only option.

Another AI-written article. Why would I bother reading if you don't bother writing?

"Here’s the part that should bother you: the data already exists. We generate it every second. We paid for the sensors that produce it. None of it is missing."

"Scope that claim honestly, or the people who know these tools will rightly call it. The application layer — what you see and adjust day to day — opens up to non-specialists. The infrastructure underneath — the server, the network, the boring boxes — still needs an owner."

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