You seem to be interested in selfhosting so I encourage you to learn and follow the other comments but… … I’m here to remind who needs to hear this that there should exist small communities where the average member doesn’t give a flying TCP packet of what “coturn” is. Using smolweb technologies doesn’t need to imply operating the infrastructure.

It might turn out to have more drawbacks than advantages. But to all the “terrible idea, stupid idea” folks in here… What’s up with the 'tude? We’re going to need a lot of ideas. Some will COME OUT of other ideas that didn’t work, but that somebody wanted to try anyway. It’s 100 linear meters. It’s a way to start quantifying the vibrations, the dirt, etc that y’all seem so sure will doom the project (and maybe will)

Solarpunk is about innovation and creative use of technology. This is it. It might be wrong in the long run but somebody will learn something in the process.

Why is this thread so unlike others in here? Why the negativity?

This, from the project I use to deploy my server, could be a starting point

https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy?tab=readme-ov-file#bridges

Thanks, that’s what I had found. I will set up prosody somewhere and try…

Do you run any bridge (I forget the XMPP nomenclature). One of the reasons I run matrix (synapse) myself is to have a single interface for many instant-message platforms. I’ve been looking into migrating to XMPP (im sure my matrix deployment can be slimmed down but for now it’s a behemoth taking 4 GB of RAM…) but I’ve been somewhat discouraged by the process

A heat pump is also in my future, but the funds need to recover from this round of energy efficiency interventions first.

But even before then, having resistive heating might not be the best (or the cheapest) but I love to be able to measure all my house energy needs in kWh without conversions (sure if you have gas you can count cubic meters, but it’s a lot of approximations).

I’ll tell you when I have seasons behind me! It’s a new installation :)

10 kWp but ~45% of it on the northside. We’re in south Germany, 49ish degrees north. We redid the roof (bought a house with resistive heating and almost no roof insulation… Picked up a bit of a project here) and covering 60% of the south side with panels is required by law (at least to get some subsidy), but we would have done anyway. Don’t use this day do evaluate the project :)

I don’t like walking upside down, so I stick to the top of the sphere :D

I took the screenshot then and I was too lazy to do it again before posting :) Also, sometimes the integration that does the prediction becomes more realistic and the difference would have been less strong. But it looks like it didn’t re-evaluate the prediction, and the second half of the day was even worse :)

You are correct of course, generation happens without direct sunlight. In fact, today it was raining and I never saw the sun (until literally 5 minutes before sunset, go figure). It’s actually awesome to get what I get on a rainy day, jokes aside.

I can confidently say that there was no direct sunlight involved today because I have panels on the northwest side, that doesn’t get any direct sunlight these days, and they behaved just like the south. Even pale sun makes the south take off way past whatever the north string can do. Didn’t happen today

Once in my shared apartment, while I was in university, a guest of a roommate was dumping a lot of rubbish in the bin, and I pointed out we had baskets for recycling. “Yeah, but it takes time to separate the parts. Do you think [CEO of a huge fossil fuel industry in my country] does that?”

I didn’t know how to answer that.

The CEO went to jail a few years later.

Edit: nope, it sounded too good to be true. He didn’t serve time. He is still a CEO of something else. FML.

It should be configurable to limit draw and depending of SoC, and it should be compensated. But it should be possible.

If you are connected to the grid you participate in the grid. You shouldn’t be allowed to avoid it, unless you go off the grid entirely.

I didn’t know Maybe, but I take the opportunity to suggest Actual, which took an opposite path (born as a closed SaaS solution, and upon commercial unviability was turned FOSS, and, boy, am I grateful for that).

https://actualbudget.org/