Installed 2 more #solar panels on ground mounts, reaching my goal of 50% installed in time for solstice.

16 down, 14 to go, but first I will need to clear some more space, and probably order more PV wire.

they sent this to email addresses which have nothing to do with my github account, just used in random commits. really spammy behavior.

hey #github, do you also sell email address lists harvested from git to other spammers?

#github spam will result in random email mentions from github going into my spam folder I suppose. I'm still flagging this as the spam it is.

500 watt sunshine currently, once I finish my solar upgrade this will be a 1 kw day

Enjoying this sunny December day.

"a weak impulse and associated vort lobes" -- NWS

surprised monkey face

started pulling on the oddly bulky white socks balled up in the bottom of my sock drawer

and they were a pair of gloves

thanks mom

A cloudy, warm December day has my house running the fridge a fair bit but also in a slightly less cloudy period it charged the car for a little while, before giving up. Nice to see that code working (about 200 lines made these decisions). My recently installed morning panels caught a decent amount of light for the first time too, which helped charge up the house battery enough. #offgrid

Yay I'm getting 30 watts from those 700 watts of solar panels I installed yesterday. Hey, it's December.

on the phone with my health insurance, got far enough for them to demand proof of payment by FAX before they backed down to admitting that their website is hot garbage that does not display my actual balance correctly

Latest addition. At 14 of 30 panels installed.

solar field 1 hour from sunset and still producing 1kw which is the target power to produce all day

Nothing says "country living" like a woodshed that is also a solar powered EV charging station.

This supports OCPP, which seems to be unusual in the home EVSE space and makes it very flexible. I did consider OpenEVSE, but needed L1 and current OpenEVSE kits are L2 only.

Amusingly though, I'm not using that capability, I will probably just use these simple things I sniffed from its web interface:

x=0 # 0=on, 1=off
curl 'http://uc_evse.lan/pageEvent' -X POST --data-raw "evseEnabled=$x"
curl 'http://uc_evse.lan/pageEvent' -X POST --data-raw "currentSet=$n"

bought a grizz-e mini #EVSE and I can finally start/stop charging and set charging amps at home, from the command line, without involving cloud API rate limit nonsense

Continuing my advent of hauling gravel up the hill to fill solar ground mounts

I remember when git plumbing seemed like a good idea, but the current reality is more like actual plumbing. Is this NPT or JIC, and is there an undocumented support for C-style quotation? The last plumber to touch it was in 2009 and they were just throwing together whatever parts were on hand.

man, git is totally infested with DOS-style CFLF stripping when it reads filenames from stdin. Just not enough infested to be consistent.

Use -z if you can is my only advice.

Finished bringing up the first part of my ground mount array.

It turned out to not be too hard to get the panels installed in the Powerracks, only needed a few inches of movement to align things and that was doable without help. I think it's a good system.

wow, this turned out to be an out of date /etc/hosts data (somehow set by networkmanager) plus a misunderstanding of address= in dnsmasq.conf which combined to make another local host respond to a ping of the car when the car was not at home

full egg on my face here: this turns out to be my home automation turning it off despite it not being home

I thought I had protected against this by pinging the car but apparently that doesn't work

good old testing in production!

Citrumelo harvest at Dad's

Frogging

had to write a shell script to make my car keep restarting charging since it fails out every half hour or so. grid power wtf?