It's a bit far-fetched but I remember a website I found a while back that was fully hosted using solar energy (yes it went down at times).
Was it this one?
Yeah a few people have linked through to it, such a neat idea! Thinking I might give it a go with a Raspberry 🥧
That solar website is discussed at some length here, it's an interesting listen.
Solar panels, inverter that works with HomeAssistant that tells your UPS to turn off your server when your batteries are low.
I'm hosting al my services on an old Android mobile with termux. Power consumption is ridiculous, not 100% sustainable but it is very low power. You could add solar panels and you're done. In terms of performance, mainly for family use, I've never had an issue once I plugged it to an ethernet port.
Mind telling us more about this please? What services are you running and how? Docker?
No Docker unfortunately, it would require either to recompile the mobile Kernel or use QEMU and I believe it would have a big impact on the performances. Basically this time the approach was: what can I do with an old mobile without rooting or anything. Hardware:
Sofrware:
Since I wasn't able to install .NET Runtime in Termux directly, I used the proot-distro (Ubuntu) and inside I've installed all the services. Services are started manually every time I restart the proot-distro (unfortunately I'm getting an error when installing Termux:Boot), it's a simple script so I'm not dying over it. To keep the proot-distro alive I launch is with the screen command so I'm ensuring persistence even when the terminal is closed.
It's not a clean solution like docker etc. but I'm consuming 5 or 10Wh of energy every day which is close to nothing and probably sustainable with a solar panel.
Every once in a while (basically when the SD is almost full) I transfer the files with rclone to an external drive where I consolidate the files.
Oh extra tip, with rclone you can create a DLNA server so you can serve the files you have download immediately (tested with VNC and Kodi)
The phone/server has still room (CPU & RAM) to go and possibly I could install HomeAssistant without any issue. Also I could add Joplin and Floccus using webdav for storage as I had in my previous server but I don't miss them.
Any other questions, doubts, scripts, feel free to ask!
Were you able to use the phone Bluetooth in HomeAssistant?
(Or do you not have access to interfaces like that with proot-distro? I'm not at all familiar with it..)
Unfortunately I didn't give it a try.
I tried HA Bluetooth presence detector on my PC some time ago with not so good results and since that time I didn't gave another go.
I saw a Termux-bluetooth package so it could be a feasible thing.
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