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by USiBqidmOOkAqRb 672 days ago
>they want their panels to be accessible when they are outside their home

I call bullshit. They've been conditioned to think that they want it, because all product brochures have it.

What kind of tangible benefit could there be to know how bright the sun is at your home while you're not there? A cool party trick to virtue signal or a break between doomscrolling, I suppose, but it's not like you're gonna jump up and drive back to... what even could you do if you knew?

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> I call bullshit. They've been conditioned to think that they want it, because all product brochures have it.

You gave reason WHY they want it. Maybe consumers were conditioned to want access, but they still want access. If you give them similar devices, they will chose the one which has application or webpage to see how their big investment is actually working. It's not about current state of device, it's all about historical data and month-by-month savings presented as a nice graph. They will check this maybe every week or month (later every several months), but buyers still want to know what their installation did for them.