Re:Automating Heating with Home Assistant
by sowbug on Monday January 02, 2023 @11:51PM
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Similar here in California, except the original thermostat is in series and set to an upper limit. Pipes freezing aren't a concern, but a $3,000 heating bill caused by a corrupt Raspberry Pi SD card is.
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Re:Automating Heating with Home Assistant
by squarefoot on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @02:07AM
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That's also the reason why boards that depend on SD card rather than for example eMMC are despised in the industrial world. SD cards are highly unreliable, whatever their brand or price: it's just a matter of when they will fail; I've lost count of how many of them I had to pull out and check/recover on my formerly Raspberry PI based media center before I ditched it for a Chromebox with reflashed firmware. Now that's not a big hassle in a home media center, but I wouldn't want for example to travel 300 Km to a mountain and climb a 20 meter pole to service a sensor up there that stopped working because its SBC SD card failed.