Emma DavidsonJul 27

My partner has come up with the most Dad tech solution ever for electricity bill management.

Change all the light globes to programmable coloured LEDs.

Red in peak electricity price time, amber in shoulder, green in off peak.

If the lights go red, that’s your cue to run around the house turning off unnecessary appliances and lights.

Show threadPaco Hope #resistJul 27
@emmadavidson I am a dad with full fatherly electric obsession. But this is a bridge too far, even for me.
Show threadEmma DavidsonJul 27
@paco this is a house in which two software devs got married and bred kids as nerdy as we are. There is no such thing as a bridge too far in this house! 
Show threadPaco Hope #resistJul 27

@emmadavidson I guess I’m slowing down in my old age. I have automated a TON of stuff in my house. But then someone mentioned a “Gagguino” to me and I just couldn’t turn my morning coffee into a project.

https://gaggiuino.github.io/#/?id=home

GAGGIUINO

Gaggiuino is a community-driven project to add profiling, temp control, and other high-end features to Gaggia espresso machines

Show threadEmma DavidsonJul 27
@paco we have a very analog cafe-style espresso machine (literally exactly like cafes use) but I have been thinking about using a wifi power plug to at least turn it on in the morning, so it’s hot enough to use by the time the coffee drinkers emerge from their doona cocoons.
Show threadPaco Hope #resist

@emmadavidson The first thing I ever automated was just a WiFi-enabled plug that was connected to our kettle. I labeled it “kettle” in home assistant. It wasn’t that useful. Because if we didn’t load the kettle with water the night before, it didn’t help. And frankly, you still have to go pour the tea.

Eventually I moved that plug to a lamp in the living room. I didn’t rename it. Home assistant still thinks it is the kettle. So if you say “Alexa, turn on the kettle,” the lamp in the living room turns on. We thought it was so funny, we’ve left it that way for 5 years. 😜

Jul 27 at 3:02amWeb