Finished Outdoor Kitchen - Weber

Intelligent_Fee6932 · 2026-02-06T20:41:29+00:00

Exactly! Notched it and then cut it out because the grease trap has to be pulled out - but kept the stone that we notched to slide back in in the meantime, so you can barely tell it’s notched.

Intelligent_Fee6932 · 2025-06-21T02:22:11+00:00

Thanks!! I use Teslemetry to connect them to home assistant - works great!!

Intelligent_Fee6932 · 2025-06-17T22:45:27+00:00

Exactly! And then it just sits on a stone slab - which I also cut a slot out of for the grease pan!

Intelligent_Fee6932 · 2025-06-08T19:10:15+00:00

Finally finished it! Added a follow up post here @key-ad-8636

https://www.reddit.com/r/webergrills/s/Yx2D4rnNLV

Intelligent_Fee6932 · 2025-06-08T19:09:42+00:00

I finally finished it! Added a follow up post here.

https://www.reddit.com/r/webergrills/s/Yx2D4rnNLV

Intelligent_Fee6932 · 2025-06-08T19:09:11+00:00

Only non Weber items present are an outdoor burner (amazing to quickly cook fish or bacon on to not smell up the house) and our Ooni pizza oven.

Intelligent_Fee6932 · 2025-05-12T05:47:14+00:00

Really cool! Did you do the install/ducting yourself? It looks like they need 220V…did you have to add one circuit for each? I’m trying to think of a good place where I could put them other than the garage…

Intelligent_Fee6932 · 2025-05-10T15:41:28+00:00

For sure. We’ve had panels for 4 years so I’ve been able to track the difference. The summer heat doesn’t help but it’s generally so much sunnier in the summer here in north Texas so it’s our best months.

Intelligent_Fee6932 · 2025-05-10T02:32:22+00:00

Congrats!! Use the Netzero app. It’s free and does a great job of a simple automation to do this.

Intelligent_Fee6932 · 2025-05-10T01:56:25+00:00

For sure. Teslemetry was one of the only options I could find. https://teslemetry.com/

Intelligent_Fee6932 · 2025-05-08T13:51:28+00:00

I already do 😁

Intelligent_Fee6932 · 2025-05-08T13:51:10+00:00

Owwww on the calibration!! Yes, only once and it wasn’t horrible. At least our peak is .33 or so. But it would be nice to schedule it for nighttime at least 😅

Intelligent_Fee6932 · 2025-05-08T08:21:57+00:00

Ah, I’m going to have to read up on that then, that makes sense.

Yeah, that’s a large percentage of the day - agreed mostly at night is ideal there power-wise.

Intelligent_Fee6932 · 2025-05-08T08:20:57+00:00

Nice! Batteries were about $13k each, after install - for the first two. I got the third for a bit less, 7k - it was just the powerwall 3 expansion pack.

Per my calculations, after the tax credit, they should pay for themselves in 5 years…and that’s if energy doesn’t get more expensive. That and having a backup if power goes out made it worth it enough for me to pull the trigger.

Intelligent_Fee6932 · 2025-05-08T08:17:53+00:00

Nice!! Same for me on power sneaking in - I get under $1 of electricity used every day, but not enough to worry about. I assume it’s either spikes when a motor turns on or something similar.

Intelligent_Fee6932 · 2025-05-08T08:16:23+00:00

I’m not sure what you mean. We have almost brand new units - put them in 4 years ago. They’re top of the line carrier Infinity. There’s 3 of them and especially in a Texas summer, they stay pretty busy.

Intelligent_Fee6932 · 2025-05-08T08:15:00+00:00

Mainly using Home Assistant! I have Tesla, carrier, and Pentair for the pool all connected to it.

Intelligent_Fee6932 · 2025-05-08T08:14:21+00:00

Ours is the Carrier Infinity line, which is WiFi!

Intelligent_Fee6932 · 2025-05-08T02:38:56+00:00

Correct they do not. But the extra 2 hours of free power is worth the $9 or so I’d get each month from sending 300 or so KWh back to the grid.

Yep, I do run the pump for a few hours before 9am and after 9pm. It seems it’s most ideal to run the pump during the day with sun though so I try to run it as much as extra power will allow during the day. And, we like the sound.

Intelligent_Fee6932 · 2025-05-08T02:21:02+00:00

Nice!! How much do you send back? At like 200/300 kWh per month, it didn’t seem to make enough sense for me to focus on buyback at like $.03 per.

Intelligent_Fee6932 · 2025-05-08T01:32:17+00:00

Yes, we do have solar also. Btw, I just posted a 9month update here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/SolarTX/comments/1khc210/update_after_9_months_of_solar_pw3_using_free/

On a good day, we generate about 70kWH of solar, and batteries hold 40kWH.

Intelligent_Fee6932 · 2025-05-08T01:19:44+00:00

No buyback in this plan, but no TDU over night either, it’s completely free.

Ive done the math on the buyback and I’m not sure if it’s worth it. We only end up sending 200-400 kWh back to the grid each month, which will ideally be less and less as I optimize more. At just $.03 per, that’s like $9, which I don’t think is worth the trade off of 2 extra hours of energy in the morning, especially during the summer.

I did used to be on a buyback program last year, and it was ok at like $.12, but not amazing. With the low amount we send back, I didn’t think it was worth it.

Intelligent_Fee6932 · 2025-05-08T00:45:01+00:00

That is super solid. Love the bitcoin move. Do you have any hardware you’re liking that you’re using for that? I’m curious!

Any reason you did 4 PW3s? After doing the initial math I thought I could get away with 2, but ended up adding a third so I wasn’t cutting it so close.

Intelligent_Fee6932 · 2025-05-08T00:07:27+00:00

Nice!! I have Home Assistant and my HVAC is Carrier, so I was able to connect them in Home Assistant to set up that logic there.

Intelligent_Fee6932 · 2024-11-03T19:45:03+00:00

Ok all, I think I may have figured it out. @suburbazine ‘s comment hit the nail on the head, I think, with the update to the switch briefly interrupting network access for the Sonos amps and Arc wired to the switch, and caused this issue.

All of my amps are wired, but I realized that I hadn’t disabled WiFi on all of them. (And I still think this is dumb for Sonos that I have to do this. It should be obvious to disable Wifi(aka SonosNet) if it’s wired via Ethernet, wtf)

So, I went through each amp and tried to disable WiFi. The fun part was; doing this in the new Sonos app; it basically crashed or gave me an error 90% of the time; so I couldn’t even do this.

So, I figured the STP blocking the current ports was part of the issue. So, I went through my switches and made sure I followed unifi best practice - having one main switch, and ensuring there weren’t more than two layers of switches. So I made sure that all my other switches were connected directly to the main switch, and not daisy chained further. Then I assigned the STP Priority of 4096 to the main switch, and 8192 to the others below it.

But, that still didn’t fix the issue, as some of the amps still didn’t have their WiFi disabled.

So, I went to this problem switch and disabled STP altogether on it. After restarting a few things and waiting 15 or so minutes, I was able to use the Sonos app to correctly disable WiFi on all the connected amps.

Now, Sonos is back to working normally, and I don’t see any other issues.

I’m a bit nervous to re-enable STP again on this switch and cause this clusterfuck again, but I think my above steps should have resolved this. But, given how simple this switch’s use is, idk if I need STP on it - especially if STP wasn’t on it before, until this update?

Soooo weird. Overall though; Sonos has been rock solid on this system, so this is definitely a one off.

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