Yeah, it’s hard to find good ones. You could invert it to 120v AC and plug in a regular charger, but you lose efficiency doing that, not to mention the added danger, weight, and complexity.

There are various ways to use it, yeah.

Oh I think I get it now. So you can terminate the solar panel with something like this and then charge phones with a standard car charger with PD. I like that idea.

I’m not smart, can you tell me if having it behind a reverse proxy with certs and everything fixes any of these flaws?

I’m having trouble imagining what you’re setting out to accomplish. 12v solar panels are higher than 12v. This one gets to 18v, for example. You need a solar charge controller to convert it to 12v, and then you’d need something like this to convert it to 5v to charge your battery bank. Whether your battery bank will “take” 12v without electronics to tell it to is beyond the scope of my knowledge, but AFAIK 5v is universally accepted.

Good to know. I had heard Anker did some shady stuff but never caught wind of a good replacement. The phone charger scene is obscene as seen by OP, and and I would rather buy from Anker than buy garbage.

I could be wrong, but I just did some quick research and it looks like the PD spec always supports all of those voltages. I also did a reverse image search of the image you posted, and it’s some no-name brand from Amazon. Don’t buy no-name brands from Amazon. Stick to Anker.

Will you be recording the video? HA doesn’t do that on its own, but you can install the Frigate add-on if your hardware supports it. I recommend a good HDD for recording to. I have a WD purple just for video recordings.

I’m not sure how well an HA Green would do with Frigate, although it is possible to run it on a Raspberry Pi if you add something like a Coral via USB (https://coral.ai/products/accelerator/) to handle the heavy lifting… so a Green should be fine. Don’t take my word for it, though.

!whitelistsilver

I’m a fan of Dockge. Nice simplicity, easy to update container stacks, etc. etc.

I already have this set up and it works well. Sometimes I turn the TV off and stay in the room on my laptop for a while, and the lights turn off. It’s easy enough to turn them back on but I’m wondering if mmWave could help.

I didn’t know Gentoo was named after a penguin.

Ah, I responded above thinking you already had ntfy set up. Ntfy is so cool, I definitely recommend taking a look at it. I use it for notifications from Home Assistant, Uptime Kuma, Proxmox, etc. There are other similar things out there like Gotify, but I seem to prefer ntfy.

I responded to someone below. Hope it helps.

Since there’s no native ntfy notification built in to LubeLogger I figured out a way to do it using Node-RED. If you don’t have Node-RED set up, It’s pretty great for automating things. I mostly use it for Home Assistant. There’s certainly a way to accomplish this without Node-RED, but I would have no clue where to start.

The basic idea of the flow attached below is:

1. Schedule when you want notifications (I like being reminded on monday, wednesday, and friday at 8am)
2. Have Node-RED pull the maintenance reminders, which are available in JSON format
3. Do some filtering and splitting of the data, narrowing the reminders down to Past Due, Very Urgent, and Urgent (ignoring everything that doesn’t need attention).
4. Feed the filtered data into templates – different templates for each level of urgency. This adds some complexity, but I like it.
5. Bring everything back together, format it into something that ntfy.sh likes, and then fire the notification.

You’ll of course have to go through and change settings in each node to match your LubeLogger URL and vehicle ID’s, and preferred ntfy server and topic. You can also add your username/password for LubeLogger and ntfy (or a bearer token, if that’s what you have set up with ntfy).

https://hastebin.com/share/camumegane.swift

If you’re not familiar with Node-RED, you’d import the above JSON and edit it from there. Stuff “flows” through nodes, stopping and doing what you tell it along the way.

They can be charged below 0*C, too. No need to redirect lots of current to heating the batteries during charging like with Lithium.

I love LubeLogger. I’ve totally switched both my and my wifes cars to it for tracking gas mileage and maintenance.

If anyone would like, I can share how I got ntfy notifications working with it for maintenance reminders.

Nice. I’m happy to see LW doing updates. I take it to mean the software is maturing (both Lemmy and pict-rs).

Good news, they just released v1.130.1

I try to avoid Amazon when possible. I’ve had this happen, too. I paid a couple extra dollars on eBay in order to avoid Amazon, and the item came from Amazon anyway.