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Aaron Parecki

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    Contributions from: Kuwait, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States
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    Portland, Oregon, USA • 58°F
  • jthingelstad https://micro.blog/jthingelstad   •   Sep 3

    @aaronpk we did a remodel years ago and the general contractor suggested I take photos like this. It allowed us to uncover an HVAC duct that was completely sheet rocked over!

    Aaron Parecki
    whoops! Yeah you can be sure I am going to photograph the crap out of every wall in the new house! The contractor normally does it himself but he was like "I know you'll do a better job of documenting this than I will" 😅
    Portland, Oregon • 70°F
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  • Aaron Parecki https://aaronparecki.com/   •   Sep 2
    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.
    Aaron Parecki
    Update: The LoRa sensor has no trouble at all with the range, but it's still touchy when the transmitter is inside the mailbox.

    If it's in exactly the right spot it works, but not when the transmitter is where I actually want to mount it on the side.

    The one I found has the transmitter box with a breakout cable to the contact sensors, so I was able to run the wire for the contact sensors to the door flap and stick the transmitter on the underside outside of the box. Now it works great!
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 61°F
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  • 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?

    Aaron Parecki
    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
  • jack the nonabrasive https://mastodon.social/@karabaic   •   Sep 2

    @aaronpk also, if you get Informed Delivery, you get sms for all tracked mail…

    Aaron Parecki
    but I wanna know exactly when the mail is delivered!
    Portland, Oregon • 87°F
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    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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