TV Fault

What mostly appears on the screen of our TV is dust. Not too sure how they could monetise that, but LG are welcome to try.

Being an anal twat, My TV is attached to a smart plug with a power meter, all logged to Domoticz.

Power usage when off logs as 0 watts, both before I changed to quick start and after. It is 43 watts when on, most impressive for 55 inch. Power consumption improved from my earlier LCD TV and monitors.

I don't know how it uses 0 watts, when idle. The Orange Pi seems to use

They build profiles of what you watch and look at, then sell that to advertisers looking for a demographic that matches the profile. By snooping on the network they can identify other devices that might be able to be targeted with ads, as well as get a better profile based on the quantity and type of devices found. (bit like Uber in the states will quote higher prices if you have an expensive phone, your battery is getting low, or it is raining where you are).

Because it has most of its circuitry powered down . Just enough is on to respond to whatever switches it on. Presumably some kind of IR receiver.

-- If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.

Joseph Goebbels

I've a feeling my 58" Panny is around the same, but the manual no longer gives /any/ consumption figure. My 17-years old 37" Panny gives the consumption as 197W!!!

I hadn't heard of Domoticz, but it looks interesting. What do you use to measure power? The issue with a lot of "wattmeters" is that they don't tend to work well at lower powers, as you've noticed, and even at higher powers can get fooled by SMPS and sometimes by the power factor of the equipment being measured.

There's an interesting, if now fairly old, discussion here:

On Channel 5 tonight at 1900: "The secrets of your phone: They don't want you to know"

"Alexis Conran explores the claims that smartphones and tech companies are listening in on their users and collecting a vast amount of personal data."

I guess that includes smart TVs too!

I have not ever seen a TV equipped with a microphone

"Alexa, tell us about voice controlled TVs"

I stand corrected.

In any case I doubt I will be buying a TV again.

I've seen all the reruns, all the old movies, sports is all on satellite and the public funded channels are wall to wall woke by and large.

I can rip a DVD and watch it on a computer

Almost everything else is on the Internet

Yeah, you could feel the heat coming off the old stuff, you can't with the new stuff.

Domoticz is OK, but I didn't really investigate if there were better things.

I use Tasmota, pre installed on an Athom plug, but I think the hardware is just rebadged. You can pick up similar on Aliexpress. I bought about

1. 1 failed totally, 2 failed partially, after 4 to 5 years.

Tasmota is open source firmware, it can be difficult to install if the hardware manufacturer is unhelpful, so I try to get preinstalled.

The accuracy seems ballpark OK, looking at the overnight stats I see one period where the usage goes up to 1 watt for an hour (an hour being the reporting period). So I presume there is some drain in standby, maybe it rounds down, or maybe it is occasional bursts.

I also have a router that reports 2 watts, which seems consistent with the amount of heat it puts out.

Most have at least one to support "voice control", and many have others for tasks like doing room optimisation of the sound output. Some have video conferencing capabilities built in as well. ISTR in that Gamers Nexus deep dive they noted it had 7 microphones!

You know the model number of your TV, so you could look on ebay to see if anyone is selling a used one.

That said, if the screen is too fragile you might order a TV that works for the seller and doesn't work when it has arrived at your address.