Comment on Do you poweroff your server during night / unused times?
Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months agoI can’t turn it off because none of the lightbulbs in the house would turn on anymore
Personally I try to avoid making anything in my home actually dependant on my server. I have a single lamp that can only be controlled from my phone and that’s only because it’s so rarely used that I didn’t want to put in the effort. Everything else is local first and only gets extended functionality from my server running.
I’ve had a couple issues with my zigbee stuff over the years on the server side and I would be really pissed if I wouldn’t be able to turn my lights on because I haven’t gotten around to fixing my server yet.
h3ndrik@piefed.social 2 months ago
Sure. All that stuff has consequences. I also used to run a DNS Adblocker on that machine. So after a power outage, all the lights in the kitchen and livingroom (those are the smart ones) would turn on at full brighness (their default state). The internet wouldn't ever come back since it's missing its DNS server. Obviously I can't get any notification of the incident, since my server is down... And I fall back to being reachable via phone or SMS. If my wife tells me via chat or email... That's down, too.
I'm still working on a better solution. It ain't easy, though. It's certainly easier to use some cloud services and have other people keep the infrastructure running in some datacenters which have more redundancy... We have light switches, though. All my smart home stuff is just retrofitted. So we can still turn it off or on with the wall switches. I won't change that until I come up with a solution to this problem.
And it's just some lights and the washing machine. While I am a nerd and tinkerer, I don't any reason to own a smart toaster, fridge or Alexa. YMMV, of course.
lud@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Doesn’t your phone switch back to mobile service if the internet isn’t reachable on your LAN?
h3ndrik@piefed.social 2 months ago
yes, the phone switches to mobile. It's just all the selfhosted services that are missing, like my nextcloud, matrix chat, etc. I don't use that many cloud services., so it'll be a lot of things I rely on. But I've changed things and moved the adblocker. So now that one issue is gone.
lud@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Do you selfhost email too?