I'm using HA to, but for p.v. and I'm honestly far less enthusiast for various reasons... Leaving aside consideration about the TERRIBLE YAML mess of HA and it'

I'm using HA to, but for p.v. and I'm honestly far less enthusiast for various reasons... Leaving aside consideration about the TERRIBLE YAML mess of HA and it's terribly handled storage or it's distribution model where the sole realistic usage option is via pip wrapping it the real issue came form available hw on sale. Measuring it's nice, but does not help in practical ways the home users, despite the geek satisfaction of seeing nice dashboards. What's help it's the ability to maximize self consumption for those who have PV or minimize costs for those with energy prices that vary in various ways all day/year long. That means having appliances that can run or shut down automatically. We actually have essentially NOTHING on sale for that. I've managed with a mix of Shelly Pro (to be wired) and Raspi zero + WaveShare ModBUS TCP adapters to automate a bit my home but the maximum I've practically achieved is piloting hot sanitary water and heating a bit, effective, but limited. To drive washing machine, dishwasher etc I need essentially to open them, re-wire their control panel to a GPIO board like Raspi and drive it from HA, something a bit absurd since demand a manual reverse engineer of the machine (not that complicated, but not nice) who need to be redo from scratch anytime I change machine since different model even of the same brand have different switches...