I’m in the process of getting my Home Assistant environment up and running, and decided to run a test: it turns out that my gaming PC (custom 5800X3D/7900XTX build) uses more power just sitting idle, than both of my storage freezers combined.

Background: In addition to some other things, I bought two “Eightree” brand Zigbee-compatible plugs to see how they fare. One is monitoring the power usage of both freezers on a power strip (don’t worry, it’s a heavy duty strip meant for this), and the other is measuring the usage of my entire desktop setup (including monitors and the HA server itself, a Lenovo M710q).

After monitoring these for a couple days, I decided that I will shut off my PC unless I’m actively using it. It’s not a server, but it does have WOL capability, so if I absolutely need to get into it remotely, it won’t be an issue.

Pretty fascinating stuff, and now my wife is completely on board as well; she wants to put a plug on her iMac to see what it draws, as she uses it to hold her cross-stitch files and other things.

  • fmstratEnglish
    1•4 months ago

    There are a couple of ways:

    1. Formally add a system entry to run at suspend/resume (like how nvidia does in their driver package)

    Or

    1. Write a script that rmmods, suspends, sleeps, modprobes, and map it to Cntrl-Alt-Shift-S

    I usually do 2 because I like the hotkey method for desktops, and it keeps things the same for both. Also allows me to close a lid on a laptop and leave it on. But 1 is more “formal”.

    Happy to share some scripts if you’d like, on my phone now, though.

          • fmstratEnglish
            1•4 months ago

            Could be internal to kernel? Try updating /etc/default/grub to include: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash atkbd.reset" and run sudo update-grub. This will cause a full keyboard reset on resume.

            If you have not run BIOS updates, that could be it, too.

              • fmstratEnglish
                2•4 months ago

                Glad that worked out for you 😉 What is Gnome doing exactly?

                What kind of issues, and which trackpad driver?

                  • fmstratEnglish
                    1•4 months ago

                    Is this a Thinkpad? And of so, is the BIOS s3 on “Linux” or “Windows and Linux”?

                    Also are you running Wayland? If so ot might be worth trying to log in with Xorg instead (bottom right when logging in).