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Aaron Parecki

  • Paul https://infosec.exchange/@planzi   •   Sep 8

    @aaronpk if your internets will be delivered by your cable tv provider, make sure you have a path for that cable... otherwise the cable company will just butcher your house when they do their install

    Aaron Parecki
    I hope to never have internet delivered from the cable provider 😅 and have no plans to get cable service, BUT... the electrician insisted on running coax everywhere anyway, so now my plan is to create my own in-house cable TV network
    Portland, Oregon • 65°F
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    We are just a couple weeks away from closing up the walls on the new house! Are there any last minute requests I should put in for things in the walls? We already have: ethernet everywhere, 2x the required power outlets, water on the patios, intercoms...
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    I guess if I had to choose between spending $40,000 on a 98" TV or a 98" car, I'd choose the TV https://www.samsung.com/us/televisions-home-theater/tvs/samsung-neo-qled-8k/98-class-samsung-neo-qled-8k-qn990c-qn98qn990cfxza/
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  • 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!
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