[afnog] XLAT646 deployment

Mon Jul 5 11:45:46 UTC 2021

On Mon, Jul 5, 2021 at 3:17 PM Mark Elkins <mje at posix.co.za> wrote:

> 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...
>
[speaking for myself]

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.

The revenue stream is built around analytics collected in the IoT vendor
cloud which is still mostly v4. I could be wrong.

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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