<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jul 5, 2021 at 3:17 PM Mark Elkins <<a href="mailto:mje@posix.co.za">mje@posix.co.za</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p>I think this dialogue is wonderful. I remember years back at an
AfriNIC conference(?) when Jordi showed off in a live
demonstration then, opening and closing his window blinds/curtains
in his house. He was physically in the room and his house was far,
far away. <br>
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<p>Best I've done so far is adding two AC/DC Wifi timer switches to
my Pool Pump and Pool Light. I can now remotely control both but
usually just allow the timer to operate. The Blue LED pool light
comes on at Sunset (i.e. - it changes) and off at 8pm. Before the
installation - I hardly ever bothered switching the pool light on
because it was a PITA to do. Now it's on every evening. The AC/DC
switches seem to be IPv4 only though 🙁<br>
Garden watering system is IPv4 only too...<br></p></div></blockquote><div>[speaking for myself]</div><div><br></div><div>Most IoT stuff is still untested over v6. IoT developers aka SoC embedded engineers have pretty tight deadlines to ship devices over to the market. So non-essential things like testing if v6 works or does address parsing work over v6 is often ignored.</div><div><br></div><div>The revenue stream is built around analytics collected in the IoT vendor cloud which is still mostly v4. I could be wrong.<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><p>
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<p>Also installed a Victron Multiplus 48/5000/70 (Solar PV, 10KWH of
LFP - etc) to alleviate "load shedding" (I live in South Africa) -
which is also remotely accessible, no IPv6 either (any Dutch
friends out there? <a href="http://eurodns.com?" target="_blank">eurodns.com?</a>?)</p>
<p>@Jordi - regarding Mikrotik, perhaps offer your help again.</p>
<p>@Mark - if the solutions used in home automation include IP
connectivity - especially IPv6, simply saying what is available
can add value to all of us. Am sure others would be interested to
hear, learn and propagate... and potentially encourage the
manufacturers to support IPv6 in their products if there is enough
noise.<br>
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<div>On 7/5/21 11:25 AM, Mark Tinka wrote:<br>
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On 7/5/21 11:04, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">I've a similar setup to control also my
heating/DHW, and electricity ... replaced myself most of the
electric wiring, and devices in the electricity distribution
panel, so they have WiFi and can measure consumption, etc.
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In addition to that, 2 years ago deployed 6Kw solar, and made my
own LFP 80Kw battery (90x3,2V cells and a Batrium BMS
<a href="https://twitter.com/jordipalet/status/1389193991716020227" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/jordipalet/status/1389193991716020227</a>) ...
next step, summer job, is to add 1Kw PVs, replace my 20
years-old gas heating/DHW with an aerotherm system (government
is funding 45% of the cost), so I can take more advantage of my
own electricity. I "sell" the excess to the electric company,
but the Spanish law compensation system is not good, is monthly
basis, so I've excess electricity 8-9 months per year that I
never get paid for and 3 months that I pay some electricity +
the gas bill. Now I will change that.
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My previous monthly electricity bill was 120 euros, now is below
12 euros ... My yearly gas bill was around 500-600 euros, will
turn into 0 and will increase something like 20-30 euros the
electricity bill for 2-3 months when we have not sufficient sun.
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All that is controlled by self-developed monitoring with
Influx/Telegram/Grafana ... and now I'm working in an interface
between the different electric meters (in the WiFi MCBs and
MCBOs), so I can tell the aerotherm to "slow-down" for some
minutes when there is an excess of energy demand in the house,
for example when I turn on the oven ... so to avoid asking the
inverter more than continuous 5-6 Kw which may trigger a
security disconnect or even trigger the electricity company
switch, etc. (my contract was 4.6 Kw, now only 1Kw with the
electricity company during the day, 3Kw in the night - in case
there is no sufficient sun, so I can recharge battery at the
lower energy price).
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We should trade stories off-list... I've gone down the
self-generation/self-consumption rabbit hole too :-).
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#BackToIPv6
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Mark.
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