Yup, and this wasn’t fiction https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11846996/

I must be too old school because my first thought when i read this was “with an old solenoid lying around and a few lines of code, an AtTiny could strike a key on the bluetooth keyboard, waking the laptop!

a man’s rights rest in three boxes; the ballot box, the jury box and the cartridge box.

I operate a rooftop solar power station. While I have scripted all the individual components like battery management, Inverters and the various sinks (for where the power goes when it’s not needed immediately) using Grafana to get alerts, I use automation to activate the various scenes and settings to maximise the useful power I get from the system.

have a look at Shelley smart devices. They have a wifi button that’s fully compatible with Home Assistant. Not the cheapest in the world but the quality is excellent. No Zigbee needed.

https://www.shelly.com/en

you might have to install OSMC in a proxmox virtual machine if you can’t do a bare metal install.

i’ve got one and hacked it with an ESP32. it’s awesome, but it’s not a CO2 sensor, it detects fine particles in the air.

do you have a gas meter? surely it would be simpler to capture the operation of the meter either electronically if it’s a smart meter or optically if it has a moving part or dial?

Even if your heating is gas it should be possible to disaggregate that usage by measuring the consumption over a minute or so.

people should be able to protest as long as i’m not inconvenienced

clingfilm on every window.

mine is unplugged and in the drawer where it will stay until spring.

holding hands

can you do a Grafana one?

weird that it tried to load libpcre on shutdown too. have you got a wifi sniffer installed? nmap? metasploit?

I can guarantee that if you drank pure petroleum and ate quicklime then you would spend the rest of your life without worrying about farts.