One minor problem with installing hashrate heating systems in non technical user’s homes is the issue of an internet outage.
At first glance this is solved pretty easily by using something like drain:// (braiins) to keep the miner hashing when the miner loses connection to the pool. Epic UMC OS and Luxor have similar settings fyi.
But in the real world what happens if the rando person I installed a system for has a network switch die, or an ethernet cable come unplugged? How long will it take to realize that the machines have been hashing(heating like normal) but producing no valid work/no sats?
My idea is simple. In my systems I’m using two miners, so I plan to set only one to hash without internet. This will put the boiler into a “Limp Mode” (50% capacity) in which it will still be able to heat the house to some extent, but not as good as normal. This should hopefully prompt the homeowner to realize something might be wrong.
This is a pretty unlikely edge case, but I do think it could go undetected for…….who knows how long lol.
If you were using home assistant for the thermostatic control and hashrate monitoring you could set up some notification automations to send them a message? Or what if that notification was sent to you? Then you could reach out? I know you aren’t bullish on HA. It could even be a web scrape of their hashrate from their worker address that you monitor. We’re building something like that for Exergy. Then it’s our duty to keep the customer in the loop. Which makes the case for a small hashrate split IMO.
Who in this scenario is the party liable for the sats? If you’re installing this as a service, do you not have visibility into hashrate of your installations?
Phrased differently, who’s the one who will notice the missing sats? Seems like that will dictate where in the system to build in monitoring.
The homeowner in my situation is responsible for their sats. One thing i could do is watch their ocean account if they want to share that info with me. But as fortune would have it, i had a miner die in a clients boiler and they figured it out real fast lol.