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I'm quite enjoying the cold here: been using the winter to work on house plans, automation and air sensors. Then last week I woke up to the news this morning that Google is discontinuing the Chromecast Audio. I've been using two of these and the versatility is amazing - love being able to group rooms …
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These are for the 8 zone home audio system. One of the reasons for the for going the Chromecast Audio route is the excellent room grouping functions. The DAC isn't half bad either. Most of my home automation goes via OpenHAB which has excellent Chromecast support. And if you just want to push raw audio …
“We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.”Jim Rohn
As the build continues I thought it would be interesting to experiment with creating timelapses of the process. There's already a Hikvision Pan-Tilt-Zoom camera on site and wired up. This post looks at the current (rather string and glue) approach to creating timelapses. I'm currently snapping a picture every two seconds [plus a bit of …
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I ordered internet in August. 10 weeks later, it was enabled. The problem came from Pyür needing to install a new cable. They finally did this. The hassle came from receiving bills for non-existent internet. Anyway. Long story. The good part is that the packets are flowing. Using water to see if the conduit goes …
The floor is wood, the wall is wood. The challenge is to avoid everything being too "woody". So we have a 16 meters of wall (diagram below holding the doors that lead to the lounge, workroom, bedroom 3 and bedroom 2) that could be painted white. Or, felted... Additionally the end of the passage has …
Today saw a visit from SiGeKo, shiny new emergency instructions and fire extinguishers. All over shadowed by a wall that threatens to fall over and is being propped up with steel poles. Needless to say, the 10am "Baubesprechung" ran on for a few hours. Good to see everyone and exciting progress. Update: the falling over …
