It's not fashionable to talk about consuming less as a climate solution because our economy is based on selling us crap that no one needs.
@davidho Apparently this is all you need: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OfxlSG6q5Y
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@TimWardCam @davidho Bonus points for being entirely analogue and relatively easily maintainable/repairable.
@lispi314 @davidho Maybe. Until one of those magic bits of metal gets slightly worn or bent or stretched ... then it's toast.

@TimWardCam @davidho Relatively easily repaired though, you just need a replacement filament of the right metal & dimensions.

That's nowhere near as hard as repairing a broken CPU or reverse-engineering whatever server this probably relies on (local storage we can't rent-seek? Perish the thought), breaking the encryption it uses and spoofing keys so you can use your own local server.

@lispi314 @davidho Yeah. That's why I didn't *buy* a remote reading / recording thermometer when I wanted one, I built my own from a Raspberry Pi so I had control over the web site and database. An amusing lockdown project.

@TimWardCam @davidho I've got plans for a few similar projects in the bottomless limbo of my "todo eventually" list.

For outdoor stuff it gets a bit complicated as weatherization in Canada gets complicated.

Freeze/unfreeze cycles mean ingress protection is mandatory, rather than just strongly recommended, which has done quite a bit for keeping me lazy.

@lispi314 @davidho The electronics and all the sensors are in the greenhouse, apart from the thermometer measuring the outside temperature.

There's an unexpected benefit of the humidity sensor - when we're away from home we can see when (whether!) whoever has promised to water the plants in the greenhouse whilst we're away has actually done it.