Got myself some energy monitoring Zigbee plugs and made an interesting discovery

[sunzu2@thebrainbin.org]

This gave me a serious chuckle... BC I deff considered it. Or keeping the box on balcony in the winter to get few more fps back in the day

[darkassassin07@lemmy.ca]

If you want to expand from just monitoring a couple sockets to monitoring the whole house; I'd recommend Iotawatt. I've been using one of these to monitor every circuit in my house for a few years now.

You can use the built in webpages shown below to view it's internal graphs, or setup an exporter to feed the data into external DBs like influxDB+Graphana or Emoncms.

[dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world]

You used the magic word, "modern."

Lots of houses in this world are not modern, and some of them are old enough that they were retrofitted to have electricity, as mine was, rather than even being built with it to begin with. And done so in a haphazard manner when electrical codes were either much more lax than now or didn't exist. And further when the expected power draw for a household was considerably lower, because basically all of it in the 1920's or whatever was only used for lighting and we didn't have all of our current appliances, TV's, computers, 3D printers, or even indoor space heaters.

So moaning about what ought to be rather than what is really doesn't accomplish anything, especially in OP's case.

My small house has basically the entire ground floor wired to only two 15 amp circuits.

[sweetmylk@lemm.ee]

Does it clock down when idle?

[catloaf@lemm.ee]

You might need to lower your expectations

[cygnus@lemmy.ca]

How is it possible that it draws 100W at idle? What is it even doing?

[showroom7561@lemmy.ca]

I bought two “Eightree” brand Zigbee-compatible plugs to see how they fare.

Did you need a Zigbee hub to get them working? I was gifted an Eighttree Zigbee plug with energy monitoring, but it seems to require using a hardware hub

[darkassassin07@lemmy.ca]

A lot of people aren't even aware of the concern. That's why I bring it up.

Paying an electrician to add a breaker is much cheaper than replacing the PC. Tho that's up to OC if they want to pursue that. I'm just putting the info out there for them to consider.

[dmtalon@infosec.pub]

And why the old "ice boxes" are top load only. And why most boat fridges/freezers are top-load, because energy is scares/finite when disconnected from power.

[codilingus@sh.itjust.works]

It will help some, and will also help temps, but AMD hardware does well with undervolting, especially the 5800X3D. I undervolt mine, and read the consensus that - 30 across all cores should be achievable for anyone, unless they're really, really unlucky. My 6800 XT I also only run @ 92% Voltage, and it runs cooler and faster now, too.

[anarchosnowplow@midwest.social]

Is your upright the one with all the little compartments? That one looked to me like the most efficient upright design I've ever seen.

[windex007@lemmy.world]

I had a similar revelation. Home assistant has a WOL component, so you can set that up for easy starts. I've had mixed success with mechanisms to get HA to sleep the computer, though.

Ideally I want the machine to be sleeping I'd I'm not using it.

[tofuwabohu@slrpnk.net]

How, if it's not exposed to the internet? Burglars?

[sunzu2@thebrainbin.org]

Do you really trust your consumer grade router and firewall on the desktop?

[darkassassin07@lemmy.ca]

A fridge can create a fairly low overall temp, but with something like a PC generating a ton of heat inside, it can't keep up. The fridge just can't move the heat fast enough and becomes an insulated box trapping the heat instead.

[tofuwabohu@slrpnk.net]

Against random internet noise? Yes, absolutely

[dogma11@lemmy.world]

Hard drives, especially spinning discs, and RAM are probably the biggest factor at idle.
I dropped my servers' idle draw from 220w to 180w by dropping it's RAM and replacing some older drives.

[sunzu2@thebrainbin.org]

What about something more spooky?

[ryedaft@sh.itjust.works]

Both are full so it reduces the amount of cold air that can escape when you open them.

[sreudianflip@sh.itjust.works]

OK but what if you have a lava lamp that is synced to the moods of a sarcastic and greedy AI?

Security is about to get really weird. It used to be the Internet of Things we had to worry about, but now we have Things of Internet.