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I programmed a smart plug to react to the greenness of the grid

by ErikCorry on 4/5/23, 2:46 PM with 1 comments

  • by ErikCorry on 4/5/23, 2:46 PM

    This smart plug has an ESP32 microcontroller in it. Using 200 lines of Toit code and libraries for NTP, HTTPS, JSON, etc., it fetches the current electricity price from a free online service and uses it to switch on a lava lamp only when the electricity is green and cheap. There's a manual override.