Got myself some energy monitoring Zigbee plugs and made an interesting discovery
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I'm eyeballing HWINFO64, it's saying my GPU is idling at ~28W and the CPU is idling at ~36W. Add a couple watts for the fans, various peripherals, and waste heat; it's close to what I saw earlier.
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My entire master bedroom suite is on one 15A circuit. That's how most houses are. The lights are currently those damn CFL lights, so they aren't exactly difficult to dim - CFLs almost do it on their own when they're close to dying (which these ones are).
That, and it's a rental house.
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I use HASS.agent to help manage my Windows desktop and expose various sensors to HA. It can suspend or hibernate the system. It does use MQTT as its connectivity plane.
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Oh nice, I'll give that a shot. I was using IOTlink but the service wasn't reliable on my machine and needed to be restarted constantly...
I'll give HASS.agent a shot! Thanks
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I also found out something interesting. My desktop uses about 1/3 of the power one of my freezers do.
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Suspend != boot
Even in 2010 or earlier waking a pc from suspend would have only taken 2-3 seconds because the whole system state is in RAM not on disk.
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Chest freezers are exceptionally energy efficient. It's not a very good comparison.
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That's either a really efficient PC or a really old freezer
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Ah, but only one is a chest freezer
That, and I used to have a freezer that was a power suck.
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The PC is effecient. It's not a gaming PC. It idles at around 16W and maxes out at 80'ish.
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Place a surge protector between the smart plug and the PC to be safe.
What benefit does this serve in this situation?
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Those days were at worst almost 10 years ago.
Stop living in the past with those situations.And you get an SSD.
And YOU get an SSD.
And you fine sir also get an SSD! -
At least until MS muddied the waters with "hibernate".
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Ah shit, I need 240v lol
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36 Watts idle sounds like a lot for a 5800X3D. I'll see what my 5700X3D does, never checked that. Not in software and not at the wall.
