• Natanael@slrpnk.net
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    11 months ago

    Some people have hourly electric pricing, in their case it’s worth scheduling stuff based on predicted pricing. How that should is that you’d have a home server which controls your IoT stuff (so the gadgets themselves can be firewalled from the internet and controlled only by you) and then your server would fetch pricing data and pause stuff that doesn’t need to run when prices are high and run stuff like washing when it’s cheap

    • makunamatata@discuss.tchncs.de
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      11 months ago

      TIL - cool, makes sense.

      It would make sense if we had a server that could fetch prices instead of opening up potential weak systems to the internet.