1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,120 I'm the kind of guy who loves starting ambitious projects, 2 00:00:03,120 --> 00:00:06,600 and my team of professional Eggers on, shi- 3 00:00:08,520 --> 00:00:09,840 Okay, who did that? 4 00:00:11,680 --> 00:00:15,880 Well, they don't exactly hold me back. The problem is, once the shoot wraps, 5 00:00:15,880 --> 00:00:21,720 we don't always finish said ambitious projects, which has left me with a couple of loose threads. 6 00:00:21,720 --> 00:00:25,520 It's not entirely their fault. I'm guilty too, but look, 7 00:00:25,520 --> 00:00:29,200 today's not about playing the blame game. Today is about taking action. 8 00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:32,480 That's why we are making a list, roadkill style, 9 00:00:32,480 --> 00:00:35,640 and we're gonna check it at least once. 10 00:00:35,640 --> 00:00:39,080 Check this out. I can check this one off already. 11 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:44,800 Step one today is to compile a deficiency list. That's a long piece of cardboard. 12 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:48,640 Sure is, Billy. What are you expecting to write on here? 13 00:00:48,640 --> 00:00:53,160 The house hasn't burned down, has it? I mean, like, the garage doors work at least, right? 14 00:00:53,160 --> 00:00:57,680 Right, but ask me if I put in the new relays. You didn't put in the new relays. 15 00:00:57,680 --> 00:01:01,040 It's worse than that. The back left relay fires, 16 00:01:01,040 --> 00:01:04,360 but the door's not actually connected. Oh, I heard it click. That was, well, yeah. 17 00:01:04,360 --> 00:01:07,360 Well, why isn't it connected? We replaced our garage door openers. 18 00:01:07,360 --> 00:01:11,680 Oh. The trades assured me that they had put all my wires back where they were. 19 00:01:11,680 --> 00:01:15,320 Oh man, they just, like, twisted wires together. 20 00:01:15,320 --> 00:01:19,080 It's not even, like, soldered or connected or marred. 21 00:01:19,080 --> 00:01:22,880 It's literally just twisted bit of copper. 22 00:01:22,880 --> 00:01:26,920 I love contractors. These days, I wouldn't recommend a solution like this. 23 00:01:26,960 --> 00:01:30,960 Since I did the setup at my old house, someone has actually reverse engineered 24 00:01:30,960 --> 00:01:36,240 Chamberlain smart garage door opener protocol, allowing you to just take full local control of them. 25 00:01:36,240 --> 00:01:40,680 But when I moved in here, I wanted to go with the relays because I had old dumb garage doors 26 00:01:40,680 --> 00:01:44,760 that were still working perfectly fine other than obviously not being smart. 27 00:01:44,760 --> 00:01:49,600 So then, since I already had this, but I got new openers because my old ones started dying, 28 00:01:49,600 --> 00:01:53,560 I just went with dummy ones. They're not actually dummy there. They support Aladdin, but these were already here. 29 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:56,600 And it's been working great. These are just a much older design 30 00:01:56,640 --> 00:02:00,960 and it's probably time to modernize them. Or if we could figure out if Aladdin connects 31 00:02:00,960 --> 00:02:04,720 just pipes right into Home Assistant, then we could do that as well. So these are technically smart. 32 00:02:04,720 --> 00:02:10,200 Oh, okay. Yeah, so we'll just have to see what the better solution is. Since we're in here, my house sits in a cellular dead zone. 33 00:02:10,200 --> 00:02:14,640 So we picked up this amazing, cell-fi Quattro, fully digital cellular repeater. 34 00:02:14,640 --> 00:02:17,720 Only problem is, our company's cell phone plan 35 00:02:17,720 --> 00:02:21,320 changed carriers about six months ago. 36 00:02:21,320 --> 00:02:25,680 And I still haven't updated it to the frequencies that I'm actually using. So I have no cell signal at home 37 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:31,280 and Jake never showed me how to get into the dashboard. You would think, oh, well you should just be using Wi-Fi. 38 00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:37,440 But because my car has wireless Android Auto, which it defaults to, even if I plug it in, 39 00:02:37,440 --> 00:02:40,480 when I'm backing out, my Wi-Fi disconnects. 40 00:02:40,480 --> 00:02:44,480 It's connected to my car and I rely on cellular to close the garage door. 41 00:02:44,480 --> 00:02:49,760 So I have to drive a few blocks away where I have signal so that I can... 42 00:02:49,760 --> 00:02:52,880 I don't even actually know if you can change the carrier yourself. 43 00:02:52,880 --> 00:02:56,160 To be fair, I've never tried, so. Oh, you know what the other thing is? 44 00:02:56,160 --> 00:02:59,480 This is more complicated than what we're doing right now. 45 00:02:59,480 --> 00:03:03,240 The antenna is pointed at a Rogers tower, I'm pretty sure. 46 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:07,140 That's probably the issue. So if I change this, well, we'll see. 47 00:03:07,140 --> 00:03:10,560 It shows us the antenna stuff, so maybe. Either way. 48 00:03:10,560 --> 00:03:14,560 Maybe it was, Tellus. Either way it's going on the list. Another minor headache is my HVAC system. 49 00:03:14,560 --> 00:03:18,480 See, when we moved in, we installed this super-efficient multi-zone heat pump system 50 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:21,880 that does both heating and cooling, except for one small challenge. 51 00:03:21,880 --> 00:03:25,840 The house was already pre-plumbed for in-floor radiant heat, 52 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:30,840 and it wouldn't make sense to throw that away given how much more economical it is in the winter. 53 00:03:30,840 --> 00:03:34,360 So we added a second thermostat to control that, 54 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:37,480 all of which is fine until the two times of year 55 00:03:37,480 --> 00:03:41,160 in the spring and fall when they start fighting each other. All of that is solvable 56 00:03:41,160 --> 00:03:44,360 if we put some more work into programming them. 57 00:03:44,360 --> 00:03:49,440 But we never did. So I just turn them off 58 00:03:49,440 --> 00:03:52,800 when they are not supposed to be doing things. That seems easy enough to fix though. 59 00:03:52,800 --> 00:03:57,480 Can't we just like turn one of them off based on the temperature outside? Maybe, but back when we did this, 60 00:03:57,480 --> 00:04:03,200 American Standard was anything but standard, and we didn't have much control over it from Home Assistant. 61 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:08,280 Remember when Dan and I painstakingly converted these little Ecobee room sensors to be wall powered 62 00:04:08,280 --> 00:04:12,040 rather than battery powered? I think? Well, here's the thing. 63 00:04:12,040 --> 00:04:16,800 The Ecobee app, not super intuitive. I never got them working. 64 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:19,920 To clarify, Dan did great work and it totally works. 65 00:04:19,960 --> 00:04:24,600 I just haven't been able to find a way to get it to use that sensor 66 00:04:24,600 --> 00:04:27,720 rather than the stupid one that's out here in the middle of the stupid hallway. 67 00:04:27,720 --> 00:04:31,440 Wait, do you want it to only use that sensor? Yeah, because I want it to have a holy sensor. 68 00:04:31,440 --> 00:04:37,880 Okay, let me see. Now there is a way in the Ecobee app to tell it to only care about a specific sensor. 69 00:04:37,880 --> 00:04:42,040 I couldn't find it. This has got to be the least intuitive thermostat app 70 00:04:42,040 --> 00:04:46,480 in the planet ever in the universe, you know what I'm saying? But I have to do this at my house all the time. 71 00:04:46,480 --> 00:04:52,080 I think if you go under sensors. So girl one, that's the sensor inside or no? 72 00:04:52,080 --> 00:04:55,520 I believe so. Oh, it is, yeah, girl one is the sensor inside. Oh, it's already set to that. 73 00:04:55,520 --> 00:04:58,800 This should read 24, not 20. This works just fine at my house. 74 00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:03,160 I don't know, Jake. I don't know, I'm adding it to the list. 75 00:05:03,160 --> 00:05:06,920 What are we doing in here? Well, the lazy version would be to write 76 00:05:06,920 --> 00:05:10,600 mechanical room problems, but... Oh, that's not how it's supposed to work. 77 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:14,440 The cardboard so you don't forget about things like torquing your wheels. And there's a lot of things in here 78 00:05:14,440 --> 00:05:19,160 that we could easily forget. Yeah, a lot of metaphorical wheels. The isolation transformer for the water cooling loop 79 00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:22,160 is not currently active. When we hooked up the flow sensors, 80 00:05:22,160 --> 00:05:25,200 we realized we had the wrong type of filter in the outdoor loop. 81 00:05:25,200 --> 00:05:29,720 So this is just empty right now. We installed leak sensors on the gaming systems 82 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:36,440 and have a battery backup for the entire rack. But without Pulseway installed on all of the systems, 83 00:05:36,440 --> 00:05:41,760 you might as well not even have them. And Pulseway is not installed on all of the systems. 84 00:05:41,760 --> 00:05:46,000 Also, those UPSs should probably go on the wall away from the water. 85 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:49,800 Since I'm back here, we just got our first batch of LFP batteries 86 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:53,880 to replace these slightly more exploding lithium ions. 87 00:05:53,880 --> 00:05:58,600 So now would be a great time to check and make sure they work so that we can order more in bulk. 88 00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:02,240 And by bulk, I mean, if this goes well, bulk. 89 00:06:02,240 --> 00:06:06,360 Bro, what the heck did you do to that thing? 90 00:06:06,360 --> 00:06:10,920 I haven't talked to Jake about this one yet, but remember how these chassis have those weird 91 00:06:10,920 --> 00:06:13,920 polarity sensitive power switches? 92 00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:19,160 Well, I've had some really strange issues with them where sometimes they just won't turn on 93 00:06:19,160 --> 00:06:22,760 until I disconnect the power switches for like a while 94 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:27,440 and then connect them back, and then they just work normally. So I came up with the brilliant idea 95 00:06:27,440 --> 00:06:33,120 of just buying some cheap, vandal resistant switches off of Amazon, 96 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:38,240 getting a drill bit, and putting in a standard power button. 97 00:06:38,240 --> 00:06:41,840 Proof of concept wise, it works great. I just haven't gotten around to finishing it yet. 98 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:44,000 Why didn't you just like do it here? 99 00:06:48,440 --> 00:06:52,120 I don't know. While I'm at it, I finally upgraded my GPU 100 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:56,920 and we found a water cooled 5090 that will fit in the relatively low profile of my case. 101 00:06:58,360 --> 00:07:02,360 If Jake would finally bring it to work. And this one I'm kind of on the fence on. 102 00:07:02,360 --> 00:07:07,780 What is the problem with this one else? Well, there's a couple things. First of all, after we hooked all these up 103 00:07:07,780 --> 00:07:12,360 to our network switch, we learned that daisy chaining them can be bad for performance. 104 00:07:12,360 --> 00:07:17,840 And that because of Sonos net, a wireless protocol that Sonos created 105 00:07:17,840 --> 00:07:23,180 to communicate between their boxes, sometimes wire networking can suck. 106 00:07:23,180 --> 00:07:27,120 So we got to diagnose that. And number two, ever since Sonos pushed 107 00:07:27,120 --> 00:07:31,600 their big app update, I found it just legier and crappier. 108 00:07:31,600 --> 00:07:36,360 To their credit, it has been getting a bit better lately, but I still think it's worth at least giving this 109 00:07:36,360 --> 00:07:40,880 unified box that Jake showed me a shot. Years ago, the first time this panel 110 00:07:40,880 --> 00:07:44,280 made its debut on camera, we talked about putting in monitoring. 111 00:07:44,280 --> 00:07:45,240 That's not here. 112 00:07:47,280 --> 00:07:54,200 Finally, you might have noticed it's pretty quiet in here, but that's only because this server wasn't powered on. 113 00:07:54,200 --> 00:07:59,360 See, we built a cool new server to replace it, but I'm still using the old one 114 00:07:59,360 --> 00:08:03,280 for backup of essential files. What I should really be doing though, 115 00:08:03,280 --> 00:08:06,760 is just using my Ndmi array and my hard drive array 116 00:08:06,760 --> 00:08:10,880 on this server to create redundant copies of the most essential data, 117 00:08:10,880 --> 00:08:14,600 while storing my Linux ISOs just on the hard drives. 118 00:08:14,600 --> 00:08:17,720 Cause if they get lost, it doesn't really matter that much. 119 00:08:17,720 --> 00:08:22,640 The last thing is that having both servers contributes to the sweltering heat in here in the summer. 120 00:08:22,640 --> 00:08:28,080 In the winter, it's great. We dump all the heat in the pool, which we maintain at about 10 degrees Celsius. 121 00:08:28,080 --> 00:08:32,400 But in the summer, that heated changer don't work so good. 122 00:08:32,400 --> 00:08:37,440 So I'd like to get some kind of chiller in here and then use the pool to cool the hot side. 123 00:08:37,440 --> 00:08:40,800 Oh, did I tell you I actually found something for this? Oh God, yeah, that's getting loud. 124 00:08:40,800 --> 00:08:46,280 Turns out the perfect solution is a yacht air conditioner. So while the tech yacht is definitely not happening, 125 00:08:46,280 --> 00:08:48,400 we can have a little bit of yacht at home. 126 00:08:50,400 --> 00:08:54,120 Mom, we have a yacht at home. Well, it's basically just an air conditioner compressor 127 00:08:54,120 --> 00:08:57,280 that's water cooled, because it would go on a boat. 128 00:08:57,280 --> 00:09:00,880 This isn't the boat. It would also be corrosion resistant. It would also be corrosion resistant. 129 00:09:00,880 --> 00:09:04,680 Oh, that's sick, cause we're using pool water. We're using pool water, it would be sick. 130 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:10,360 Yeah, you had like a very unsettling sigh there. 131 00:09:10,360 --> 00:09:14,960 I mean, I feel like this list is getting pretty long. You're starting to look like Sandy Claus over here. 132 00:09:14,960 --> 00:09:20,400 And the worst part is that in truth, most of these problems are kind of problems 133 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:23,620 that we have manufactured by DIYing things 134 00:09:23,620 --> 00:09:27,360 that most people would just buy an off the shelf solution for. Yep. 135 00:09:27,360 --> 00:09:30,840 With that said, I hope that the adventure has at least been inspiring, 136 00:09:30,840 --> 00:09:33,880 because for all of the warts of what we've done, 137 00:09:33,880 --> 00:09:38,400 it really was a lot cheaper sometimes. And it was way more fun, right? 138 00:09:38,400 --> 00:09:41,480 Fun? Yeah, sure. Fun, fun. 139 00:09:41,480 --> 00:09:48,600 Dan and I have been meaning to sound treat this room since we created it, and it is still very much not done. 140 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:51,960 You know, all things considered, it's not as bad as you would think it would be. 141 00:09:51,960 --> 00:09:57,400 No, it's the couches. By the way, Valencia, shout out, dude, over time, 142 00:09:57,400 --> 00:10:00,400 I have only grown to appreciate these couches even more. 143 00:10:00,400 --> 00:10:03,400 They're kind of sick actually. I think it really sets the ambience of the room, 144 00:10:03,400 --> 00:10:08,000 and also it's just kind of fun. Oh yeah. You feel like you're going to the movies. 145 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:09,960 But like better. Yeah. 146 00:10:12,640 --> 00:10:16,080 Speaking of the Valencia couches, it's pretty cool that they have both USB-A 147 00:10:16,080 --> 00:10:22,120 and USB-C charging at almost every seat, but what they don't have is any kind of data connection 148 00:10:22,120 --> 00:10:25,320 back to the PC. So I'd like to do a nice cable managed run, 149 00:10:25,320 --> 00:10:28,680 so when you're sitting there with a lap board, you can just plug in right there, 150 00:10:28,680 --> 00:10:31,720 rather than run it across the floor. Here's an annoying one. 151 00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:35,920 Do you like CEC? That is the protocol that HDMI devices 152 00:10:35,920 --> 00:10:39,560 use to communicate with each other, so that when you turn on one, 153 00:10:39,560 --> 00:10:45,120 all the right ones are supposed to fire up at the same time, so you don't have to have five different remotes. 154 00:10:45,120 --> 00:10:49,200 I love it too, when it works, but check this out. 155 00:10:49,200 --> 00:10:54,040 If I turn on my receiver and switch it over to my PC, 156 00:10:54,040 --> 00:10:59,040 this is super cool. My TV's on, it's all awesome and everything. 157 00:10:59,040 --> 00:11:02,960 Now I'll give it a second. Why is my NVIDIA shield there? 158 00:11:04,440 --> 00:11:08,440 It does it every time, no matter what I change all the settings 159 00:11:08,440 --> 00:11:14,000 in the receiver and the shield to. The shield cannot resist ripping back control. 160 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:19,480 Back when I was playing Fantasian on my Apple TV, I'd be playing for two hours, 161 00:11:19,480 --> 00:11:24,200 and then suddenly the shield would wake up and rip away my controls. 162 00:11:24,200 --> 00:11:27,880 This is one I can sympathize with. I actually had the exact same problem at home, 163 00:11:27,880 --> 00:11:32,760 and you know what I did? Turned literally everything off, and I just used like my house. 164 00:11:32,760 --> 00:11:38,400 So I just go like, hey, switch to PC, or hey, switch to TV, and it just does everything for me. 165 00:11:38,400 --> 00:11:41,680 It even wakes on LAN the PC if it's off. 166 00:11:41,680 --> 00:11:44,800 It's kind of magic. That actually sounds great because ever since I moved 167 00:11:44,800 --> 00:11:49,720 this Falcon Northwest frag box in here, I had been using this room so much more for gaming, 168 00:11:49,720 --> 00:11:54,080 to the point where it's actually made it so I have to solve yet another problem. 169 00:11:54,080 --> 00:11:57,480 See, voice chat is a solved problem, 170 00:11:57,560 --> 00:12:01,080 both for when you're all in the same room, where you can just yell at each other, 171 00:12:01,080 --> 00:12:05,200 and also a solved problem for when you're all remote. But where you run into trouble 172 00:12:05,200 --> 00:12:10,120 is when you've got a handful of people here on the couch together, 173 00:12:10,120 --> 00:12:13,960 and a handful of people remote it in, like we often do when we're playing tape to tape. 174 00:12:13,960 --> 00:12:19,040 So I'm thinking we either come up with a solution where everyone can have their own boom mic, 175 00:12:19,040 --> 00:12:24,160 and we have it all mixed together into one channel that we send out to the rest of the voice chat, 176 00:12:24,160 --> 00:12:27,200 or we mic up the room with like a nice shotgun 177 00:12:27,200 --> 00:12:30,640 that's pointed down at the couches. Yeah. 178 00:12:30,640 --> 00:12:34,560 I think a room mic is probably the way to go. I do too, which is why the stuff for that solution 179 00:12:34,560 --> 00:12:38,560 is already in this bin right here. There's also karaoke cable management on the list. 180 00:12:38,560 --> 00:12:41,560 What's that? Okay, I kind of already did that. 181 00:12:41,560 --> 00:12:47,000 It's not perfect, but it's a lot better than it was before. So here's the little Yamaha doodad, 182 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:50,360 and then we just used one of our MCM magnetic 183 00:12:50,360 --> 00:12:55,160 cable management things to the front of this grill to kind of cable manage the mics. 184 00:12:55,160 --> 00:12:58,360 Boom. It's pretty tidy, and the kids actually use it now, 185 00:12:58,360 --> 00:13:02,440 which is nice. I think before when it was a mess, they just didn't want to touch it. 186 00:13:02,440 --> 00:13:05,960 No, no, no, don't touch that. I seem to remember this being less jank. 187 00:13:05,960 --> 00:13:09,160 Don't touch, no, no, yeah. It's angled at your toes. 188 00:13:09,160 --> 00:13:12,680 It's because it's broken. It's for feet pics? It's broken. 189 00:13:12,680 --> 00:13:17,040 It's like a 50 pound speaker. What broke about it? Well, it's going into drywall, 190 00:13:17,040 --> 00:13:20,440 and the anchors that I used were not amazing. Oh, oh, God. 191 00:13:20,440 --> 00:13:24,800 It's like at the tip of the place. Oh, God. So the cat has knocked it down a couple of times. 192 00:13:24,800 --> 00:13:28,760 Oh. Do you want to see my solution for seeing what I'm doing when I'm working in here? 193 00:13:28,760 --> 00:13:31,920 At lights? I plug in this light strip. 194 00:13:31,920 --> 00:13:36,080 You plug it in. Oh, because the Z-Wave is so broken it doesn't connect. 195 00:13:36,080 --> 00:13:41,040 Nice. I think we could do better. I think there's a lot we could do better. 196 00:13:41,040 --> 00:13:47,560 Honestly, that light in there is the least of my problems, though. My light switches are still on janky motion activation, 197 00:13:47,560 --> 00:13:51,320 and these ancient GE switches have 198 00:13:51,320 --> 00:13:54,520 compatibility issues with all kinds of different light bulbs 199 00:13:54,560 --> 00:13:58,920 that I'm using in my house, causing everything from premature death of my LED bulbs 200 00:13:58,920 --> 00:14:03,120 to weird differences in brightness, even though these are both set to the same brightness, 201 00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:07,720 to the flickering that you're seeing right now. InnaValley has the millimeter wave ones coming soon, right? 202 00:14:07,720 --> 00:14:11,880 Yeah, I think I have 10 of them, actually. Like prototypes or like final hardware? 203 00:14:11,880 --> 00:14:18,000 They're like final hardware they should be, yeah. Yeah, like 5 Z-Waves, 5 ZigBee, which sounds a bit wonky, 204 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:21,320 but with how many switches you have in the house, that's probably what we're going to do anyways. 205 00:14:21,320 --> 00:14:25,760 Split them between the two protocols so we kind of ease the load a little bit. 206 00:14:25,760 --> 00:14:31,720 Of course, we're going to have to do more than just put updated light switches in, because a minor oversight, 207 00:14:31,720 --> 00:14:37,800 I have outdoor lights under the deck, but the switches for them are inside. 208 00:14:37,800 --> 00:14:40,960 So any motion sensor or millimeter wave sensor 209 00:14:40,960 --> 00:14:46,040 or any sensor inside is going to do nothing when people are sitting around on the patio. 210 00:14:46,040 --> 00:14:51,000 Right, so we probably need to add a motion sensor outside. Now, we played around with that everything presence one. 211 00:14:51,040 --> 00:14:56,560 It's actually pretty sick and seems to have a pretty long range, but what we could also do 212 00:14:56,560 --> 00:15:00,760 is something we were going to do anyways, which is to use the camera feeds 213 00:15:00,760 --> 00:15:05,040 and do person detection in the camera feeds, and then turn the lights on with that. 214 00:15:05,040 --> 00:15:08,280 Now Ubiquiti actually has a product for this now called the AI key, 215 00:15:08,280 --> 00:15:12,360 but it's not meant to be like a real-time thing. It makes a queue and processes old stuff, 216 00:15:12,360 --> 00:15:17,800 but we do have your server, which we can throw that AI card in and then we can process thousands of frames. 217 00:15:17,800 --> 00:15:22,720 Write Wi-Fi 7 on there. Oh, yeah. Maybe put it in the bottom in big text. 218 00:15:24,560 --> 00:15:28,560 Okay, well, that's going to disrupt my ability to make my list compact. 219 00:15:28,560 --> 00:15:34,560 I don't care. This room's actually been really good for the most part. 220 00:15:34,560 --> 00:15:38,880 The new multi-channel audio setup that we put in here, hardwiring everything, 221 00:15:38,880 --> 00:15:42,080 I barely ever even think about the fact 222 00:15:42,080 --> 00:15:45,320 that there's cables in here. We did such a great job of the cable management. 223 00:15:45,320 --> 00:15:48,640 The only problem in here is that every once in a while, 224 00:15:48,640 --> 00:15:51,720 this Sony AVR just doesn't work anymore. 225 00:15:51,720 --> 00:15:56,880 What does that mean? I mean, I set it to use ERC and it just no workie until I hardware reset it. 226 00:15:56,880 --> 00:16:00,680 Hardware reset. The factory reset. Everything? Yeah, I can't just turn it off and back on 227 00:16:00,680 --> 00:16:05,720 every once in a while. Like the calibration. Like everything. That's like a half an hour setup. 228 00:16:05,720 --> 00:16:10,120 Yeah, it hasn't happened in probably a solid nine months, but it's happened three times total. 229 00:16:10,120 --> 00:16:14,680 Three times? Yeah. You know, we actually have another receiver. 230 00:16:14,680 --> 00:16:19,120 We were originally planning on doing like room correction showdown where we tried 231 00:16:19,120 --> 00:16:23,640 all the different types. And actually I have a receiver that can do direct live, 232 00:16:23,640 --> 00:16:27,720 but then there's also like the room perfect one, which is really expensive that they were supposed to send 233 00:16:27,720 --> 00:16:31,360 and then never sent. So the dudes that make that hit us up. 234 00:16:31,360 --> 00:16:34,840 We'd still like to try it. Yeah, like we can send it back when we're done. Yeah. 235 00:16:34,840 --> 00:16:39,160 That's what it was supposed to be. It's like, it was like 20,000. We just want to try it because this is a really challenging room. 236 00:16:39,160 --> 00:16:43,360 But I don't know, dude. If it ain't broke, we have a lot of other things to fix. 237 00:16:43,360 --> 00:16:46,440 Speaking of things to fix, what's going on there? 238 00:16:46,440 --> 00:16:49,680 The kitties really like it. Oh. Yeah. 239 00:16:49,680 --> 00:16:53,240 They put a cat hole on the side. Yeah, we could do that. That'd be fun. 240 00:16:53,240 --> 00:16:58,120 Yeah, but they picked this apart so that they could get in. Oh. This shelf specifically gets out of sync 241 00:16:58,120 --> 00:17:01,720 with all the rest of them. Yeah, we're not fixing that. They just continued these for a reason. 242 00:17:01,720 --> 00:17:07,480 Oh. Yeah. If you want to fix that, we can fix it, but it's, we're buying a proper controller 243 00:17:07,480 --> 00:17:12,360 and putting proper RGB strips in there. What we are doing is a series, I guess, 244 00:17:12,360 --> 00:17:16,360 cause there's no way that this is going to be one video. I mean, we already have a series. 245 00:17:16,360 --> 00:17:20,800 It's called the Linus House series. It has almost, I think, 50 videos. 246 00:17:20,800 --> 00:17:23,080 It's getting a few more. Did you show them? 247 00:17:26,080 --> 00:17:29,600 The plan today was for us to make the list and fix a bunch of stuff, 248 00:17:29,600 --> 00:17:33,640 but it took us this long just to make the list. Yeah. 249 00:17:33,640 --> 00:17:36,960 Yeah. Could we do even like one thing today? 250 00:17:36,960 --> 00:17:40,720 New light switch in the land room. Yeah, why don't we try that? Okay, let's try that. 251 00:17:40,720 --> 00:17:44,240 Yeah, cause we have lots of light switches. It'd be a great idea if we had a Zigbee hub, 252 00:17:44,240 --> 00:17:47,440 which we don't yet. This guy right here plugged in over USB 253 00:17:47,440 --> 00:17:54,000 is what powers Linus's Z-Wave network, which is around a 900 megahertz long range, 254 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:58,280 not IP based, smart home tech. Zigbee runs on 2.4 gigahertz. 255 00:17:58,280 --> 00:18:01,480 So it needs a completely different adapter. And fortunately for us, 256 00:18:01,480 --> 00:18:05,680 they make adapters that are PoE powered. So rather than having to use a USB extension 257 00:18:05,680 --> 00:18:10,560 and plug it into his NAS, we can take this guy, the SM light SLZB06M, 258 00:18:10,560 --> 00:18:15,200 and plug it in anywhere that there is Ethernet in this house, as long as it's hooked up to PoE. 259 00:18:15,200 --> 00:18:18,520 For now, I'm thinking I just stick it 260 00:18:18,520 --> 00:18:21,520 on this like extra cable that's dangling here. 261 00:18:21,520 --> 00:18:24,720 In the longterm, it would probably make more sense to put something like this, I don't know, 262 00:18:24,720 --> 00:18:28,080 in the middle of the house, not like right in the bottom, 263 00:18:28,080 --> 00:18:31,720 but for now, this should be sufficient. 264 00:18:31,720 --> 00:18:35,160 You see a blinky blinky? I don't see. Oh, hey, we have power. 265 00:18:35,160 --> 00:18:40,080 That's good. At least the PoE works. Why didn't you have to pick the one light switch 266 00:18:40,080 --> 00:18:44,560 that's in a five gang box? I have to take out 10 screws, 267 00:18:44,560 --> 00:18:48,840 just to get the cover off, so I can even think about taking this light switch out. 268 00:18:48,840 --> 00:18:52,600 Wow, look at all those chickens. 269 00:18:52,600 --> 00:18:56,280 Almost final hardware. You can see the labels are missing, 270 00:18:56,280 --> 00:19:02,160 but there's a little luck sensor, and in theory behind here is the fancy millimeter wave sensor 271 00:19:02,160 --> 00:19:07,640 that's going to solve all of Linus's problems, guaranteed or your money back. 272 00:19:07,640 --> 00:19:10,960 Well, I turned off the breaker, the light is off, but just for safety, 273 00:19:10,960 --> 00:19:14,480 I'm going to take my multimeter here, and I'm just going to touchy touchy 274 00:19:14,480 --> 00:19:19,080 and see if there's any voltage. What does that say? It says 20.2. 275 00:19:19,080 --> 00:19:22,840 Oh, .2. Yeah, we're safe. Always turn the breaker off, unless you're an electrician, 276 00:19:22,840 --> 00:19:27,880 because they never turn the breakers off. Oh, yeah. These light bulbs might still be like pretty mangled. 277 00:19:27,880 --> 00:19:31,880 Proper light bulbs, with the new switch, press a button. 278 00:19:33,800 --> 00:19:34,760 They just work. 279 00:19:38,960 --> 00:19:44,440 And they're not flickering. Now let's see if we can figure out how to control it. 280 00:19:44,440 --> 00:19:47,920 After a little bit of pain and suffering and many firmware updates, 281 00:19:47,920 --> 00:19:51,040 we have our Zigbee Hub coordinator stick thing up today. 282 00:19:51,040 --> 00:19:56,360 You see there's the latest version, very nice. We've got it hooked into Home Assistant with Zigbee 2 MQTT, 283 00:19:56,360 --> 00:20:00,720 which you can see here, has no devices. And if we click permit join, 284 00:20:00,720 --> 00:20:04,000 and I do the secret code, which is you press this button three times, 285 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:09,280 boop, boop, boop, boop. That should start flashing. And in theory, hey, look at that. 286 00:20:09,280 --> 00:20:13,760 Man, that's so nice when that smart home network isn't broken and it just actually adopts new devices. 287 00:20:13,760 --> 00:20:17,600 Wow, there is a, oh my God, there's a lot of settings. 288 00:20:17,600 --> 00:20:22,760 Does it get the voltage right? No, that's definitely not right. Wow, 20 amps at 1200 volts. 289 00:20:22,760 --> 00:20:24,380 I think that's not correct. 290 00:20:25,880 --> 00:20:30,720 I don't think the wires would be very happy. It says it's consumed 16 kilowatt hours 291 00:20:30,720 --> 00:20:36,640 of electricity already. Look, why is that, is that a different one? 292 00:20:36,640 --> 00:20:40,440 Did I put a different bulb in there? It is also firmware updating, but like, look at that. 293 00:20:40,440 --> 00:20:45,000 I mean, it's dimming. Wow. 294 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:48,440 Why is this one brighter? I don't understand. What the heck? 295 00:20:49,800 --> 00:20:54,360 It is brighter, right? Oh, it's so obviously brighter. Screw it, we're swapping the one in the mechanical room too, 296 00:20:54,360 --> 00:20:58,160 just for fun seats. This one, a little bit easier to find the breaker for. 297 00:20:58,160 --> 00:21:01,880 I'm soaking off it and I'm not even gonna check it. Do you see the thing up there? It's cool, right? 298 00:21:01,880 --> 00:21:04,920 Oh yeah. Did I tell you about it? It's PoE powered, so you can put it anywhere. 299 00:21:04,920 --> 00:21:08,520 Oh, that's super cool. Yeah, I'm thinking we could put it maybe upstairs somewhere. 300 00:21:08,520 --> 00:21:13,480 Yeah, somewhere on the main floor, just like central, maybe in the family room. The mesh with ZigBee works pretty well, 301 00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:16,680 so we might not even need to. One of the big things I wanna do 302 00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:20,760 is be able to configure my lights so that when they turn on and off automatically 303 00:21:20,760 --> 00:21:24,960 with motion or presence detection, it's at a different level of brightness 304 00:21:24,960 --> 00:21:30,280 at different times of day. Okay, so this is huge, because the stupid thing with those GE switches 305 00:21:30,280 --> 00:21:34,000 is like you couldn't change the brightness level while they were off. 306 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:39,000 Well, look at our inner valley. Oh, that turned it on. I don't know if there's a way around that, but... 307 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:44,720 We'll figure it out. You can at least make it lower, maybe? 308 00:21:44,720 --> 00:21:48,320 Oh, that worked, I don't know. I don't know, there's probably a way around that. We'll figure it out. 309 00:21:48,320 --> 00:21:51,720 If there isn't, they can change the firmware probably. Because getting flashbanged when you're walking around the house, 310 00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:55,440 half naked thinking, man, I'd like to get a midnight snack, sucks. 311 00:21:55,440 --> 00:22:01,600 So we can't quite cross this off, but we have at least compiled a list 312 00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:06,120 of everything that we need to get done. Well, you could write two and cross that out 313 00:22:06,120 --> 00:22:09,160 and then write like 98. Nice. 314 00:22:09,160 --> 00:22:12,360 Oh, hey, you wanna see something cool? Hey, look at this. What's your favorite color? 315 00:22:12,360 --> 00:22:15,760 I know your favorite colors. Blue. Look, see, it's pink now. 316 00:22:15,760 --> 00:22:18,960 Oh, cute. Yeah. And then when they're off, you set it 317 00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:22,120 so they don't turn off, but they set their brightness to like minimum. 318 00:22:22,120 --> 00:22:25,960 So when it's the middle of the night and everything's dark, you can see the light switches. 319 00:22:26,880 --> 00:22:32,040 Absolute genius. Just like this absolute genius segue to our sponsor. 320 00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:37,160 If you guys enjoyed this video, you might enjoy the whole playlist of me and Jake working on this stuff in the first place. 321 00:22:37,160 --> 00:22:40,480 And you should make sure you get subscribed because, what do you think, six months? 322 00:22:42,480 --> 00:22:44,280 12 months? A couple.