This was a fun day in the Abitare Workshop, testing out the seating height and depth for the seating in the lounge/cinema area, kitchen and balcony. Excited to see how they come out!
Venice with Alistair
Should anyone ask, F17 is nearly done.
More photos are available in the F17 Baustelle/Building site gallery.
Should anyone ask, monitoring energy usage around the apartment.
I was interested in calculating the expected power cost per appliance for the year based on historical data This works as follows: set up a bunch of HS110 devices to monitor power use around the house. (10s refresh rate)I run a Prometheus server with a retention time of 2.5 years (would be nice to compare yearly data + some …
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Should anyone ask, 802.11r (roaming) on OpenWRT
~/Documents/src/home-network master ● sudo wpa_cli scan_results | grep +FT dc:9f:db:1c:ce:8e 2437 -49 [WPA2-PSK+FT/PSK-CCMP][ESS] imagiFi 68:72:51:1a:74:89 2437 -50 [WPA2-PSK+FT/PSK-CCMP][ESS] imagiFi 00:27:22:ca:ff:20 2437 -54 [WPA2-PSK+FT/PSK-CCMP][ESS] imagiFi dc:9f:db:58:ca:a2 2437 -61 [WPA2-PSK+FT/PSK-CCMP][ESS] imagiFi de:9f:db:1b:ce:8e 5260 -71 [WPA2-PSK+FT/PSK-CCMP][ESS] imagiFi 5 dc:9f:db:1b:ce:8e 5260 -71 [WPA2-PSK+FT/PSK-CCMP][ESS] imagiFi ~/Documents/src/home-network master ● Roaming/Fast Transition just got a whole …
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Should anyone ask, building a whole home audio system using Chromecast Audio
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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Multi-room audio preparations
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 …
