I love it. It’s a 2023 model, so the new shape. It’s the vehicle of choice for nearly all trips we take over a '20 Subaru Outback. Charging is slowly expanding in the province so it’s becoming even easier to plan drives. Really the biggest frustration is our biggest city only has 50 kW fast charging.
Oh, I agree it won’t be easy, particularly when taking profits from rich people.
I’ve heard it likened to a house full of asbestos. Knock it all down and there’s likely to be collateral damage, but meticulously taking it apart will take a considerable amount of time. I feel it would be easiest for governments to purchase the insurance companies, then slowly amalgamate so it’s all one network open to everyone.
Also it’s a bit entertaining when someone opposes it because “it’s socialism”. It’s already socialism, you just have middlemen skimming profit off the top while providing little value.
Anecdotal, but my personal experience with an Ioniq 5 in -28C increased the power consumption by about 50% over summer driving. My test was about 42 km, done with comfortable, driver-only cabin heat on a flat highway with no wind.
Average highway consumption is about 20 kWh/100km, that test was 29.3 kWh/100km.
Saying that, an EV is quite practical in Saskatchewan, Canada. Charging is finally getting to a point where that extreme winter range limitation is less of an issue. Having a second ICE vehicle does take the pressure off if one absolutely has to travel when it’s that cold out though.
Hey guys, many other countries have figured out that healthcare doesn’t have to be a privatized, for-profit nightmare. Perhaps that’s an option worth exploring.
The asterism gives me big Splinter Cell vibes and I’m definitely OK with that.
It looks like this is the same car, they note it’s badged as the Grandeur in other markets.
I’m a fan of the look of newer Hyundai models. The Ioniqs and this definitely move the brand away from the foreign budget brand they’ve been traditionally known as.
For sure, a level 2 is much faster. My point was more if you go to say a cottage for the weekend, you’re still able to plug in there and would likely be close to full in the 2-3 days you’re parked there.
In my Ioniq 5, I’d be pretty much full with level 2 (240V) overnight, but the level 1 (120V) would only get around 20%. But, the slow charging isn’t too much of a concern if I’m staying somewhere for a couple days.
All I’m saying is that it’s possible to fuel your car nearly any time it’s parked.
Not even just home charging. There are often options to plug in at most destinations, even if it is just 120V. Which if you’re spending a day or two is perfectly fine.
Folks often don’t consider just how long their car sits parked.
The nuances of charging I would say. I definitely think they should’ve known those things though.
I found that even if the salesperson is excited, there are still some knowledge gaps. I asked for my Ioniq to be charged to 100% on pickup (had a ways to drive), but found it was only 70% or so. The salesman said their charger was “too slow” (?) but they’d pay for the fast charge, so he came with me to the charger to authorize it.
My charge request was a few days prior to pickup, so in reality, they could’ve just plugged the 120v in the day before and it would’ve been full, and they didn’t need to accompany me to the charger to start it if I just told them which to activate through the app when I was there.
Saying that, he was quite knowledgeable about their EVs, just obviously wasn’t familiar with some of the more nuanced operational things.
Aka a bribe.
Many of the chargers around me in Canada (Flo) charge by the minute. They’re not often full, but I do think it discourages idle time. I think a system that can detect high demand (all chargers in use) and activate demand pricing, which is significantly higher, for any vehicles over 80% would deter people essentially parking at fast chargers.
Unfortunately there isn’t really an all-in-one guide. TechnoTim has info on the Pi-hole config side and wildcard certificates, but I think he uses it with traefik.
NPM is pretty straightforward. If you find a site isn’t working, try turning on Web Socket support.
I’d say just search for guides on each part individually:
I can try to help if you run into any issues.
I’m definitely not a network pro, but it sounds like you’re looking to do something similar to what I have.
I’ve got nginx proxy manager as my reverse proxy with pi-hole for local DNS. All traffic goes through the pi-hole and anything going to mydomain.com has DNS entries pointing to nginx. I’ve set nginx up so service.lan.mydomain.com is for anything local and just service.mydomain.com for anything external with wildcard SSL certs for both (*.domain doesn’t seem to cover *.lan.domain so add certs for both - probably because it’s a sub-subdomain).
The Cloudflare tunnel can then just get directed to service.mydomain.com instead of the IP of the service.
I didn’t ponder it when setting the cameras up, but after writing these posts I was planning to do just that when I’m back at home.
Yep, Reolink cams can be fully local only and still work fine.
Yep, but the method is separate from HA. Could do it two ways, I use Pi-hole so that it’s still able to contact the NTP server (could also set the time server to something local through the desktop app, I believe) but block all other external traffic, or you can block external access through your router firewall. I noticed the time would occasionally be inaccurate if I had blocked all internet access.
Either way you can use a VPN or other tunnel service to access while you’re away from home. I use WG-tunnel on my phone to auto connect to VPN when I disconnect from my home network, it’s quite handy.
I have the Reolink doorbell, among a couple other Reolink cams. It integrates very nicely with HA. I have it set up for essentially what you’re looking for, audio/video feed, notifications with an image attached when the bell is rung (also motion detection notification from another cam, but could do the doorbell too), and the ability to have it play quick reply messages, including custom ones.
I believe you can have the two way audio in HA as well, but I haven’t explored it. The Reolink app has this functionality if I really need it, but haven’t come across an instance where I needed to use it.
You should be able to do all this with just the Reolink integration.
“Ground, it’s Fred. Off to work. Request taxi to the road.”
“Fred, Ground, roger. Taxi bravo three, left on Juliet, cross runway 34 right, right on foxtrot to the gate. I’ll let security know you’re on the way. Have a good day.”
Oh yes, your pay-to-win government duopoly isn’t helping anything, but don’t call it impossible. The Affordable Care Act was a start, and I don’t doubt the right people could make universal healthcare access a real thing in the US.