Ask HN: Am I the only one who does not want IoT in their solar panel setup?
We just got a rooftop system from a very hands-off GC-type company and I&#x27;m so pissed off about it.<p>If I&#x27;d known in advance it&#x27;d have <i>multiple</i> Internet of Shit crapware devices attached that&#x27;ll probably stop working in 5 years and require expensive replacement and renovation to keep working past that, and that it can&#x27;t produce power <i>at all</i> unless those pieces of near-future landfill rubbish are happy, I&#x27;d 1000% never have gotten it.<p><i>Mea culpa</i>—I guess I should have asked, but it just never occurred to me—but I&#x27;m fucking never getting another solar system unless I install it myself. There are other problems (that have solidified my usual preference not to let someone else GC a project for me, because they usually just skim money and do a terrible job—they fucked up our roof <i>bad</i>, for one thing, many thousands of dollars of damage so now we get to sort <i>that</i> out too, the hassle&#x27;s not worth a few hundred in savings per year assuming all else goes well which at this point I&#x27;m sure it <i>will not</i>) but IoT shitware would have been a deal-breaker on its own if I&#x27;d known it required that <i>to function</i>, not just for monitoring or whatever.