Honestly its all cheaper than you think, 100% of it I bought used bar a few things, and over a long amount of time too. Plus messing with stuff like this has 100% helped me advance my career

Check out the Lenovo Tiny’s, can get them used on eBay for quite cheap. I’m running a M720q with 64GB of RAM, an in i7-8700T, with Dual 10GB NIC’s. Uses hardly any power!

Funny you think I'm pro, I just like blinky lights!

Who mentioned Raptor?....

I already made a detailed write up on the whole install and all the issues I faced, and monitoring. Here you go!

https://blog.networkprofile.org/17kw-enphase-solar-install/

https://blog.networkprofile.org/power-monitoring-setup-iotawatt-grafana/

https://blog.networkprofile.org/full-power-overview-and-qa/

I am in the US and I do... In fact, I can upgrade to symmetrical 5Gb now with AT&T

1. Its cool. Imagine being able to get data from 12 satellites at the same time to get super accurate time, with a $10 GPS board. What a time to be alive!
2. I'm trying to reduce the amount of stuff I'm relying on the internet for. Time is pretty important, and having a local server solves all that.

The grid both is and isn't unreliable. I've not had many random outages, but I have had 2 x day long outages on hot Friday's when they were replacing power poles, which the generator of course kept me through. Working from home, and being in the Texas heat, that would be bad. And I like many people now have really bad power outage PTSD after the 2021 Texas Freeze where we all lost power. I'll never let that happen again! And turning everything off is such a hassle, I want it to to all stay on no matter what. Since I work from home, that adds another layer too. Plus, I just like cool things

What I can't figure out now is if I want to replace OpenGarage when my Ratgdo arrives. It has a lot more features, but do I care now I have OpenGarage setup? Unsure

I'm too ugly for plastic surgery

Right, but the opener is already there and installed. Plus, it does give you all the information and control over that interface. Buying a ratgdo for $30 and adding it into your Liftmaster opener is still a better situation than a dumb opener and a dumb switch. The dumb switch doesn't give you open/closed/stopped status, lights, etc.

If I were to buy a new opener, I would probably get a liftmaster + ratgdo again anyway

It sure can, but so far I've not found much use for it. I set it up to see if it can block YouTube ads in the mobile app, but it can't. Since I already use uBlock Origin, I don't know what I gain

That would be neat, but I really doubt it will ever happen

What don't you like about ratgdo? It seems pretty good on paper, I've not yet got one in my hands. Hopefully soon

$70/mo for the AT&T Fiber, and $50/mo for the Verizon 5G

200 up isn't too bad, nothing to really cry over. My old connection at my last place was 1000/30! What a joke

Thanks! No idea why you were downvoted

I really think so too, really looking forward to getting it properly deployed

What the heck! Not for me. Got a screenshot?

Honestly I'd love to throw a LAN party

If you bring the beer

I have no way to prove it, but I'm 99.9% sure that CenterPoint Energy (Who services this grid around here) leave stuff on its last legs so it gets damaged in a hurricane, and they can claim that juicy FEMA money to fix it.