#The two investments are a raspberry pi and a zigbee dongle

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Installed a sensor on my girl so i know when

#Funy jokey #I've become addicted to cheap zigbee switches and sensors #I set this up so the air conditioner in our bedroom will stop running when the bucket is almost full theres something wrong with me #It works too and i love it :') #Next up is a small switched pump that will pump the water out for a set amount of time #Directly to the balcony plants #Our windowsill is too high up to run the condensed water out with gravity sadly so some kind of reservoir with sensor and pump has to do #Also planning a dedicated channel for outside air directly to the compressor with some kind of blowback valve #I hate mobile acs for how they are designed but there are no good high capacity mobile acs on the market yet #This should mitigate most of the issues though #The main issue is the lack of separation of compression and expansion stages which is why you should use outside air for the former #AND i have an hourly energy price contract which means i should switch the ac on/of on a set of preset conditions #I love tinkering and this is both pretty cheap and actually rewarding us with much better sleep during heat waves & less fuss #Also electricity savings #I put a bunch of stuff on this kind of sensing/logic already and its so nice to see your expenses go down with little to no impact #I feel like such a dad even though i dont have any kids #All of this is completely local and relatively cheap to set up but you have to like tinkering a little #Hmu if you want some advice i can point you away from large cloud based nonsense & help with initial startup #The two investments are a raspberry pi and a zigbee dongle #Possibly also a p1 reader or similar if you want data directly from your utilities #And after that most investments should be 10 dollars max per sensor or switch and most of the ali ones will work #And even have fancy features like somewhat accurately displaying power usage and current #Sorry for extremely rambly long tags i just get excited sometimes