Home improvement (4 Viewers)

[GO]

Beautifully complex

 

[Anthony]

All I know is it’s also a bathroom mirror.

I had wanted to rip out the gas boiler and all the existing radiators in a year or two and put those panels in everywhere instead but then we needed to replace the (25 year old) boiler at short notice so that plans been shelved for a while.

Edit. This one I think. I didn’t order it myself

Marvel Mirror Infrared Heater

Mirror, mirror on the wall: the innovative Klarstein Marvel Mirror infrared heater is an efficient, fast heat source and practical wall mirror in one. The sophisticated heating panel warms you up immediately with healthy, pleasant infrared radiation and does not lose any heat in the ambient ...

www.hifi-tower.ie

watching this space....

 

[ernesto]

Or I could get a man in.

Easy money for a sparks.

 

[magicbastarder]

You simply need to cut the existing cable and add the 3rd/4th party shareholder driven multinational company into your basic household needs fastening all terminal screws tightly and replacing the cover.

The only reason I got my Honeywell system was I had been put on a customer research panel with electric Ireland and they installed the whole system for free.

 

[pete]

You simply need to cut the existing cable and add the 3rd/4th party shareholder driven multinational company into your basic household needs fastening all terminal screws tightly and replacing the cover.

That’s not Home Assistant + Zigbee works. All managed locally.

 

[pete]

Home Assistant

Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts. Perfect to run on a Raspberry Pi or a local server.

www.home-assistant.io

 

[ann post]

That’s not Home Assistant + Zigbee works. All managed locally.

If the internet, devices and batteries are involved then it's third party shareholder multinational company stuff. Those two elements, almost independent, the rest of the infrastructure, not really.

 

[pete]

Well I think we can agree the problem is capitalism but a Zigbee device has zero interaction with the outside world.

 

[ann post]

Like the comparison i'm making is

electricty - > dumb switch that lasts a lifetime or two -> lightbulb that lasts a year

being downgraded to

electricty -> zibee device - zigbee physical interface (phone/pc) -> - sensors -> batteries -> 3rd party software *android etc) -> lightbulb that lasts a year

Saying the thing isn't connected outside it's own frequency band doesn't mean you aren't introducing a 3rd party device or 3 into the equation.

I'm not actually saying anything that isn't blindingly obvious - I'm saying you are adding multiple points of failure into something that actually is one of the few technologies that works really well for a really long time and has been tested for over 100 years.

You add in all these failure points and open yourself to these failuire points:
A: mr homeassistant ads the adverts / pay model in a few years (website already alluding to this)
B: mr homeassistant gets older and decides to sell the company, google or similar absorb it
C: battery in zigbees all die at the same time due to shelf life
D: Increased parts count in basic switching makes increased fail points
E: chrome/apple/android/windows taper off home assistant support to flog their own crap
F: AI brute force backdoor hacks zigbee frequency band and domestic ransomware becomes a new adventure for cybercrinimals

So like sound thing is not to say well done everyone for jumping on the smart home bandwagon, it's to point out how many 3rd party fail points you are hardwiring to your mains electricty. It comes across negative because it goes against money that's already been spent and i don't use smilies or diplomacy.

 

[Deadmanposting]

It comes across negative because it goes against money that's already been spent and i don't use smilies or diplomacy.

Prick

Haha

 

[ann post]

Took out the cooker, cleaned behind the cooker, put cooker back in. all because i dropped something behind it.
Posting it here because nobody will know otherwise.

 

[GO]

Swapped out oven extractor hood. Looked like a half hour job.. half a day.

 

[magicbastarder]

trying to figure out how to tidy this up - stripped the wallpaper years ago and found that the plasterboard on several corners in the house is just butt jointed up against some strips of timber. obviously they never planned for anything other than wallpaper.

 

[JohnnyRaz]

trying to figure out how to tidy this up - stripped the wallpaper years ago and found that the plasterboard on several corners in the house is just butt jointed up against some strips of timber. obviously they never planned for anything other than wallpaper.

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Is the timber slightly proud of the new plasterboard or the other way round?
Ie could you try to fill over the wood and grade it out?

 

[magicbastarder]

the plasterboard is sitting proud (by 1mm, maybe 2) of the wood.

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

trying to figure out how to tidy this up - stripped the wallpaper years ago and found that the plasterboard on several corners in the house is just butt jointed up against some strips of timber. obviously they never planned for anything other than wallpaper.

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Lots of this carry-on in our house. 90s builds seem to have been just thrown up.

 

[magicbastarder]

our place is a bit older; was built in 1953.

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

our place is a bit older; was built in 1953.

The 90s builders had to learn it from someone.

 

[ann post]

Make nice wood cover up thing?

 

[ann post]

Swapped out oven extractor hood. Looked like a half hour job.. half a day.

Was that how long it takes or was a first time doing it lap time?
Asking for a *friend who might have to do this over xmas

*me