Selfhosters what is the power draw of your entire setup? And have you done anything special to manage it you’d like to share?
Including all network equipment I use around 110kWh of good ol’ 120V 60Hz USA juice per month. Averaging about 215 watts of power draw for my systems. Nothing amazing, but I like to think that it’s a conservative setup for everything I accomplish with it. I’m paying around $25 a month for my setup. None of that includes my work PC or personal PC, just hosting infrastructure.
Other than trying to make sure all power states are available on my server I haven’t done a lot of power conservation.
I’m curious what you all have.
What’s a good smart plug to use?
I assume it’s a thing you place between the machine’s power cable and the wall and can be queried over WiFi?
I use Home Assistant, and prefer Z Wave or Zigbee, as those are gaurenteed to not call home and not rely on a third party server. Third Reality makes some pretty good stuff. And yeah, it’d go between the wall and my server rack.
IKEA also have some Zigbee plugs, but they have some models with and without power measuring, so check before buying.