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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... -
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!
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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. -
I just got the Aqara C1 cat feeder and within a few minutes had it connected directly to Home Assistant via Zigbee, and all the sensors and buttons showing up and working!
However, I then realized the ZHA method doesn't expose the scheduling interface of the feeder, so I can only drive it entirely via Home Assistant, no local on-device scheduling option.
I really wanted it to be self sufficient, just reporting state and being able to dispense food with HA, but I think I'll stick with this for now anyway. The failure mode is that my HA server goes down for some reason or the Zigbee controller dies, and the food doesn't get automatically dispensed. But even if I'm out of town, I always have someone come by to check on the cat at least once a day anyway, so I guess that will be the manual fallback option.
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Sonos discovery across subnets - Configuration - Home Assistant Community (community.home-assistant.io)
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8 HDMI 8 CH HD/SD-SDI RF COAX Modulator QAM, ATSC, DVB-T, ISDB-T (thorbroadcast.com)8 Channel HDMI/SDI RF modulator for video distribution
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I can't believe I'm seriously considering getting an analog video door intercom over a digital one. I just don't like the idea of the system running an outdated version of the Android OS.
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Using a Kindle Fire as a Touch Screen Home Control Panel | Automated Home Party (automatedhome.party)
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Aaron Parecki
https://aaronparecki.com/
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Oct 27
I'm trying to pick out doorknobs and locks for the house and it turns out I have a lot of feelings about how doors should work
Features I want in door hardware:
• always unlocked from the inside
• always locked from the outside
• single keyhole on the outside
• momentary unlock with a key
• 12V DC momentarily unlock
• operates as normal when electronics are down
I'll wire it to the smarthome separately
