[afnog] XLAT646 deployment

[Mark Elkins]

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.

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 🙁
Garden watering system is IPv4 only too...

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? 
eurodns.com??)

@Jordi - regarding Mikrotik, perhaps offer your help again.

@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.

On 7/5/21 11:25 AM, Mark Tinka wrote:
>
>
> On 7/5/21 11:04, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>> In addition to that, 2 years ago deployed 6Kw solar, and made my own 
>> LFP 80Kw battery (90x3,2V cells and a Batrium BMS 
>> https://twitter.com/jordipalet/status/1389193991716020227) ... 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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).
>
> We should trade stories off-list... I've gone down the 
> self-generation/self-consumption rabbit hole too :-).
>
> #BackToIPv6
>
> Mark.
>
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