Recent content by MichaelF5

ZeroHero does a $1 discount per day that you don't import between 6 and 9pm, then a credit for the first 15kw exported at 10ckwh so you can smash back out your daily charge, then it's just a fight to last till midday when the free import (up to 50kw) kicks off again. that's a crazy install...

yeah as long as it's stable I'm mostly ok on this, suggest guys do some checking to make sure whatever they have is Offline HA compatible so they can control it even if the companies servers go down

Ironically I opted out of this as I don't like how it's implemented, speaking to the installers who are coming back in a few weeks we've agreed to stick a few power points in the garage as just in case on the EPS, the last power outage was probably 5 years ago

well, we got in early when many of the Rebates were good and massively oversized at every occasion.. 15kw of solar on the roof cost around $20k 10? years ago still blasting out 60+kw on a good winters day around 6 months ago we slapped in (during the peak of the battery rebate) 50kw of battery...

View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SS7gsm81Kys

if it's 240v into the control box then it'll be 240 out (with modulation for the various effects)

is the WS28 better power wise in a RGBW config?

what might be vaguely workable and pack-up-able is to get some seed pixel waterfall lights and just wrap them around, I agree that the shape of the trees is likely to detract from the rest of the show, looks like a European garden.. don't suppose you could convince the folks to replace those...

many people are happy to share designs so others and print them on makerworld or some of the other forums... when people download they get free stuff so I hear, option b is many people I know with printers do it so cheap you'd be best just get them to whip some more out for you and set a...

after each strand is in the right way feed a thin bit of plastic behind (imagine a straw to push the pixels forward) edit, thinking about it if I were to go full crazy I'd 3d print some grids that have the channel and a second matching grid that fits over the top of the first to hold everything...

unfortunately, you can blame Ali-express for that, many of the listings have both names :|

Sounds good, next time I'll take a photo of each location not working :)

Funny as we've been attempting to do 3 houses each night and have had similar issues

Yep, wonder what interesting stuff 2025 will bring, Happy New Year All

I assume you'd still have the latency from people's phones to their cars (weirdly my car has something like a 1-2 second delay playing a bluetooth stream)