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Re:Receive push notifications from your rice cooker by mjdiloreto on Tuesday April 02, 2024 @03:36PM (#39909974)
Energy use for constant audio monitoring would make that implementation impractical compared to simply monitoring the energy draw from the device.
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Re:Receive push notifications from your rice cooker by tnmom on Tuesday April 02, 2024 @05:52PM (#39911257)
A Pi draws somewhere under 10W at peak, probably significantly under that most of the time. That’s about 87kWh per year, worst case.

Something like $8-16 dollars depending on how incompetent your power company is - well under the threshold for anyone who knows how to do this kind of work to worry about. Again, worst case; I’d bet you can do constant listening half that.

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Re:Receive push notifications from your rice cooker by Void_Kitty on Thursday April 04, 2024 @07:42AM (#39929066)
You could probably run this on a 32bit micro controller doing less than a watt
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