I’m in the process of getting my Home Assistant environment up and running, and decided to run a test: it turns out that my gaming PC (custom 5800X3D/7900XTX build) uses more power just sitting idle, than both of my storage freezers combined.
Background: In addition to some other things, I bought two “Eightree” brand Zigbee-compatible plugs to see how they fare. One is monitoring the power usage of both freezers on a power strip (don’t worry, it’s a heavy duty strip meant for this), and the other is measuring the usage of my entire desktop setup (including monitors and the HA server itself, a Lenovo M710q).
After monitoring these for a couple days, I decided that I will shut off my PC unless I’m actively using it. It’s not a server, but it does have WOL capability, so if I absolutely need to get into it remotely, it won’t be an issue.
Pretty fascinating stuff, and now my wife is completely on board as well; she wants to put a plug on her iMac to see what it draws, as she uses it to hold her cross-stitch files and other things.
ok it worked! thanks a lot! can’t believe it was that easy. Gnome spazzes out a little bit after wake sometimes, is that something i can work around?
do you happen to know a thing or two about diagnosing trackpad issues? or at least the right direction? 😂
Glad that worked out for you 😉 What is Gnome doing exactly?
What kind of issues, and which trackpad driver?
i was about to send a screenshot, but i can’t reproduce it now. it freezes and stops responding to some input, and all the dock+appmenu icons are gone. i can update if it happens again.
I’m using the same generic ps2 driver for the touchpad. its an alps glidepoint, works perfect on windows but i can only get its basic features to work on windows 7 with the proper drivers, needless to say thats a bit unworkable.
on linux it works initially with multitouch and everything, then starts to miss clicks or click when it isnt supposed to, then starts moving erratically and becomes unusable. it behaves similar to a wet touchscreen. ive tried different kernel versions, livebooted a couple different distros and tried a few very old solutions i found floating around, including another driver.