It’s not really any different than hosting any other service.

Yep just saw that too after I researched it a bit more. What is strange is I don’t remember Eve Energy having a firmware update since then. Makes me wonder if they had it ready to go in previous firmware versions based on internal specs they saw? Or maybe I just forgot about a firmware update I did.

but as the Matter standard doesn’t yet support energy monitoring, users are limited to basic features like on and off and scheduling

- from this link

Granted the article is almost a year old. But I just didn’t realize that Matter now supports energy monitoring. Somehow I just missed that news.

Personally, that isn’t how I think about a smart home system. There isn’t a need to do major changes until maybe you need to get it replaced anyways. Starting with things like lights, a few shades, door sensors, are good ways to start. The biggest question is what do you want to get out of it?

Has 2023.6.2 or 2023.6.3 been better for you?

If you’re into JavaScript, https://github.com/dynamoose/dynamoose is a project I maintain, and has a lot of great documentation, Slack channels, and more.

Although my attention on it goes in waves, it could for sure use more help. I’m also totally willing to help answer questions and point people in the right direction.

We currently have 80 open issues, 6 open PRs. 9 of those issues are marked as “good first issues” and 8 are marked as “help wanted”.

So there are for sure some easy jumping off points to get started. But I’m also always happy to answer questions and assist in anyway I can as well.

Beyond that, it’s all about diving into something. I found Dynamoose when it was much smaller, and just started with small contributions and built up from there. Following developers on social media, and following programming communities and newsletters can be helpful too.

I build a Swift package for the Lemmy API: https://github.com/rrainn/Lemmy-Swift-Client.

Beyond that, the SwiftUI tutorial is fairly good: https://developer.apple.com/tutorials/swiftui/.

But just searching on YouTube and Stack Overflow about how to do things goes a long way too. Google a lot as well.