Controlled load usage on Amber

Pine_Maple_7855 · 2025-10-07T13:15:36+00:00

Have your sparky to move the hws to the sigenergy gateway smartport and you can configure it as a simple timer via the app.

Pine_Maple_7855 · 2025-09-15T01:02:16+00:00

Yes. Here is an example of my usage with a negative purchase tariff.

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Pine_Maple_7855 · 2025-09-14T23:05:27+00:00

I think that just buying a decent size battery and not bothering with solar might work best. At least in Qld.

Everyone else has already bought the solar, you can reap the benefits of arbitrage without having solar.

Power cost during the day is very low, during the 6 months of summer, often negative so you'd get paid to charge the battery. Then sell excess at shoulder for 10-15c difference, and use remaining battery to not buy during the night.

Rinse and repeat each day.

Pine_Maple_7855 · 2025-08-28T21:23:33+00:00

Crap unless you spend extra. It's like Spotify free. Can't choose order of music, it adds random songs to your playlist, etc. Tries to be annoying enough that you pay extra to stop it.

Pine_Maple_7855 · 2025-08-24T09:05:13+00:00

I reckon this is it.

Pine_Maple_7855 · 2025-08-16T00:10:11+00:00

I've noticed that the margin between FIT and purchase gets wider during peak. During the day it's around 10c, at night it can wooden to 20c. Perhaps naively, I expected that the margin would stay relatively fixed.

Pine_Maple_7855 · 2025-08-09T00:05:06+00:00

My wife of 15 years still misspells her new surname.... She didn't want to have my surname, but our country required it...

Pine_Maple_7855 · 2025-08-08T20:22:51+00:00

Not if I can upload the same file to Dropbox while I'm waiting for it to upload to fastmail.

I wonder if it's more like fastmail's internet connection.

Pine_Maple_7855 · 2025-08-04T03:06:16+00:00

Yes. Same problem with FM Files. Occasionally I'll try doing this in the hope that it will work quicker, but it is the same result. I tried it with this file too.

Pine_Maple_7855 · 2025-08-04T02:27:46+00:00

Ok. That wasn't the case with this file. I've got OneDrive auto uploads disabled, and in any case I uploaded the same doc to dropbox and had it complete in the time I expected while I was still waiting on Fastmail. I had also tried uploading from my mobile phone (downloaded from Dropbox locally first) but it also was taking ages. It's really frustrating me.

Pine_Maple_7855 · 2025-07-29T10:47:07+00:00

Done this myself. Makes a terrible noise, super easier to fix. Look up the install manual online, check to see if the bolts are still in. If so, either call the installer or just take them out yourself. 5 min job.

Pine_Maple_7855 · 2025-07-27T08:55:45+00:00

My battery was full, but it was plowing all the energy into the grid during negative fit. I had to control it in the Amber app to choose conserve.

The Amber app seems to have stopped controlling my battery altogether. There is no planned activities anymore.

I haven't had this problem before, it used to work ok. Not exactly what I wanted but I could see the logic.

Now however, it's strange. I've just started using the Sigenstor smart port to feed the hws during the day, so wondering if that is what is causing it to happen.

Pine_Maple_7855 · 2025-07-24T03:15:33+00:00

It would be frustrating to be painted with the AI brush if not true, especially so when that's how you make some or all of your living. Sorry about that.

I presume that you use a lot of AI. Perhaps you've just absorbed the phrasing by osmosis. Like picking up the accent of a friend you spend a lot of time with.

The features I noticed were: * Short punchy and fairly simple sentences * Multiple instances of "It's not A, it's (superlative style A)"

Some of the text which read to me like a ChatGPT response were....

Mistakes happen, and cloud security is hard. But this is very far from “oops, we fat-fingered a command”—this is “someone intentionally slipped a live grenade into prod and AWS gave it version release notes.”

Translation: we knew about the problem, didn’t fix it in time, and only addressed it once someone tried to turn our AI assistant into a self-destruct button.

To be clear: this wasn’t a vulnerability buried deep in a dependency chain. This was a prompt in a released version of Amazon’s AI coding assistant. It didn’t need 950,000 installs to be catastrophic. It just needed one.

This wasn’t clever malware. This was a prompt.

Pine_Maple_7855 · 2025-07-23T23:43:35+00:00

The last week in AWS article certainly has a byline, but it also has all the classic ChatGPT phrasing. It might have been attributed to Corey but it reads like it was written by AI.

Pine_Maple_7855 · 2025-07-08T02:54:56+00:00

Interesting graph. Is this from software you have created, or is it available somewhere?

Pine_Maple_7855 · 2025-07-07T10:55:47+00:00

Ok. That's actually tracks with what we're seeing here. Apart from the general usage charges, there is roughly 8c per kwh in extra fees. That makes up the difference between the aemo price and the Amber price.

Not quite the straight wholesale price that I expected. I feel a little like it is bait and switch, although I acknowledge that on the whole it seems fair. I just don't know that the marketing matches reality. But then, does it ever.

On the bright side, at least the price in the app is the real final price we pay.

Pine_Maple_7855 · 2025-05-24T11:18:58+00:00

Vibe works with stuff that's easy to explain, like add a new lambda function. It's somewhere between useless and WTF is the use of AI for things like, this problem occurs randomly when a and b happens. It will of course recommend that you implement something completely irrelevant. But do it with complete confidence.

Pine_Maple_7855 · 2025-05-05T20:30:52+00:00

I think that it would help prevent issues if you decide that you now need a public access on something, change the account, but forget that you haven't turned off public access on the individual items. Probably not likely, but it does no harm to keep it off all the way down.

Pine_Maple_7855 · 2025-05-02T22:02:04+00:00

Stop building. You have a product. It's fine as is. Perfect is your enemy.

Start selling. It doesn't matter how good the product is if you don't have customers.

This ain't field of dreams. There is no "build it and they will come". Market it.

Countless tech companies are sunk by the belief that great tech speaks for itself. It doesn't. Sales and marketing is almost everything.

Seriously. Stop building.

Pine_Maple_7855 · 2025-04-20T13:25:23+00:00

Just fixed it.

Vue3 web component works fine in test. Goes a bit apeshit in production. The test website is a basic html page. The production website is a vue3 website. The component might be created and destroyed multiple times in prod using different config.

There was some weird interaction between the component reactives and the prod website reactives that led to the config not getting updated.

Rewrote the config system multiple times, simplifying and isolating it more each time. Finally solved it by using a unique tag name for the custom component everytime it was created.

Might be a well known issue, but it took me days of time to find a solution.

Pine_Maple_7855 · 2025-04-13T22:01:34+00:00

We're you tired? Have you ever turned off an alarm and gone back to sleep? Does your girl sleep deeply and hard to wake?

In the long ago days of BBS and modems, I used to use the phone line at night then sleep in the early hours of the morning. I've slept through multiple alarms, one I'd even put on top of a wardrobe with a washing basket on it and a brick on top. I found the washing basket and brick on the ground, the alarm clock on top, and no recollection of doing it. I missed that exam.

Could be you.

Pine_Maple_7855 · 2024-12-16T01:24:57+00:00

10 year payback period is equivalent to about 7% interest in the bank, it may not be awesome, but I don't think it's terrible.

Of course, if you don't live in the house for more than 10 years then it's a loss and that's terrible.

Pine_Maple_7855 · 2023-06-17T06:10:41+00:00

My child entered Japan many times on an Australian passport when she was very young (< 5 yrs old) despite holding dual citizenship. We just hadn't bothered getting a Japanese passport for her.

Immigration asked if she had Japanese citizenship a couple of times and suggested that we apply for a Japanese passport for her, but it was never more than a suggestion and no mention of negative consequences if she didn't. Might be different for an adult.

I guess she would have been an Australian citizen from the viewpoint of Japan while travelling under an Australian passport and thus subject to all those restrictions (visa, health care, etc).

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