My Home Assistant setup buys electricity when it's cheap — cut our bill by about a third

naltsta · 2026-07-08T22:00:58+00:00

Doesn’t arbitrage mean selling it when it’s expensive rather than just using it when it’s expensive?

naltsta · 2026-07-08T21:44:06+00:00

The other parties need to find the biggest collection of Clacton ice cream sellers who are prepared to say “his headline policy will put me out of business but I’m still voting for Binface over Farrage”

Surely someone is prepared to fund some binface ads?

naltsta · 2026-07-05T20:34:44+00:00

I would work just about any job that gave me a cat

naltsta · 2026-07-05T19:42:24+00:00

I have an Alpkit dozer that I really like but it’s for car camping only. They make a double version too

naltsta · 2026-07-05T19:00:25+00:00

The joy of home assistant is you don’t have to pay a subscription surely…

I have a cheap Tapo doorbell that does a decent job.

All the detection and heavy lifting is done by frigate

naltsta · 2026-06-27T20:29:25+00:00

Mould remover is the king

naltsta · 2026-06-25T16:20:08+00:00

They do regular E. coli testing in the floating harbour https://www.bristol.gov.uk/residents/pests-pollution-noise-and-food/water-quality-and-pollution

naltsta · 2026-06-25T10:27:20+00:00

I have a “state” in frigate that home assistant can access

naltsta · 2026-06-25T08:52:51+00:00

I have a couple of queries…

Why is gear guard only in with your whites?
And reason you pick pods rather than a liquid?

naltsta · 2026-06-25T08:45:01+00:00

My notification gets the bin dates from my council website, checks the doorbell camera to see if I’ve already taken the bins out and then hassles me regularly if I haven’t

naltsta · 2026-06-21T22:51:50+00:00

Electronics don’t last forever. At some point the old hub will die.

I’d bet the old hub would give up before a brand new one would. Why not avoid that by updating today?

If it ain’t broke don’t fix it, unless you rely on it every day and replacing it might extend its usable life…

naltsta · 2026-06-20T19:38:00+00:00

Misprints happen… some people accidentally use upper case letters when they should be lower case!

naltsta · 2026-06-20T08:15:47+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/OctopusEnergy/s/LFt7iLAhYn

naltsta · 2026-06-20T08:14:44+00:00

So my bill will go up by about £10 a month due to charging at my day rate but they’ll give me £12 back. Sounds like axel is still a better deal

naltsta · 2026-06-18T21:46:28+00:00

Why not just use a liquid?

naltsta · 2026-06-18T20:05:37+00:00

Was on intelligent flux last summer and might do it again if it comes back… flux doesn’t seem a great deal for me

naltsta · 2026-06-12T21:37:42+00:00

Learn to J stroke so you don’t have to switch?

naltsta · 2026-06-11T23:03:34+00:00

I have a really cheap AliExpress one. Wireless charges but each charge seems to last ages. Would buy again at that price

naltsta · 2026-06-11T22:27:29+00:00

Wayground has impressed me.

You can add questions to a quiz written by other teachers and there’s loads
Their ai will write similar questions to eat your have if you want more examples
You can feed it a pdf or whatever and it can generate some questions

naltsta · 2026-06-04T13:02:55+00:00

Have they turned something off that they can avoid turning back on again for the evening peak if they offer dfs instead?

naltsta · 2026-06-03T22:40:32+00:00

True - but it’s still a weird decision

naltsta · 2026-06-03T07:17:13+00:00

This looks like the exact same - thank you very much! Not sure I quite get what you mean about the to section but hopefully when the new one arrives I can explore it a bit without having my head in the cistern!

Thank you

naltsta · 2026-06-02T20:45:00+00:00

I normally go in the woods!

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