Aaron Parecki

Saturday, September 2, 2023

7:56pm
Asleep

4:36am
Awake

8h 40m
Slept

1h 06m
Awake for

Portland, Oregon, USA

Sat, Sep 2, 2023 4:36am -07:00
Sadly my hopes of getting a mailbox opened notification seem to be a lost cause. The 433mhz sensor doesn't have enough power to reach the 80 feet to the street. The Zigbee one does reach that distance, but not once it's inside the mailbox.

I just found a LoRa line of home automation products, and while I'm not a fan that their Home Assistant integration is all through the cloud API, I might have to give it a shot for this anyway.

Portland, Oregon, USA • 65°F

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Sat, Sep 2, 2023 8:51am -07:00 #homeautomation
Melissa Santos https://social.coop/@ansate • Sep 2
@aaronpk ooooo loving these updates!

haha thanks! I'm mostly doing this just so I have a record on my website of all the random home automation things I'm setting up

Portland, Oregon • 67°F

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Sat, Sep 2, 2023 9:35am -07:00
Nils https://coolworld.cc/@n • Sep 2
@aaronpk It's been done.. ..in Switzerland.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2zJ5dqDKBk

That's legit!

I'll update my thread once the part arrives

Portland, Oregon • 67°F

Sat, Sep 2, 2023 9:35am -07:00
Very glad I took reference photos before I closed up the wall in the electrical closet! I was able to use it to figure out a safe place to punch through a hole for PoE into the studio side!

Portland, Oregon, USA • 69°F

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Sat, Sep 2, 2023 9:42am -07:00 #homeautomation
jack the nonabrasive https://mastodon.social/@karabaic • Sep 2
@aaronpk also, if you get Informed Delivery, you get sms for all tracked mail…

but I wanna know exactly when the mail is delivered!

Portland, Oregon • 87°F

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Sat, Sep 2, 2023 3:10pm -07:00
Sven Lakemeier https://chaos.social/@sven • Sep 2
@aaronpk anything in between with mains power where you could put a Zigbee repeater, like a switched outlet adapter or similar?

Right now the closest distance to any power is 80ft. I did just stick a repeater on the outside wall up high with more or less direct line of sight, but I think it takes a while for the network to sync up so I will have to check on it again tomorrow to see if it's found it.

Portland, Oregon • 87°F

Sat, Sep 2, 2023 3:12pm -07:00
173.3lbs
Weight

23.4%
Body Fat

Portland, Oregon

Sat, Sep 2, 2023 4:42pm -07:00
Nachos

Portland, Oregon, USA • 84°F

Sat, Sep 2, 2023 6:31pm -07:00