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Re: Show HN: I built a "Do not disturb" Device for my home office

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Post by venturecruelty »

mhurron wrote: post #7
nimbius wrote: post #6

"a lot of times my mother asks me if she can come in the room for reasons I won't get into" You've appeared to engineer your way around an interpersonal relationship that you lack the emotional, social intelligence and maturity to deal with. Welcome to the front page of HN i guess. you're well on the way to becoming a founder.

The only one showing any lack of social intelligence is you. The author is choosing not to go into unnecessary personal details while giving a short back story as to why they did a thing. I've thought of doing basically something similar so my wife knows I'm in a position not to be disturbed. I can, and do, tell her when I have a scheduled call, but unscheduled calls do just happen. Something like this would let her…

The nice thing about boundaries is you are not required to explain yourself. "Hey, please don't interrupt me between 9:00 AM and 5:00 PM, unless it is an emergency. I need to get work done, and interruptions break my concentration. Thank you for understanding." You also don't need to build complicated devices.

Re: Show HN: I built a "Do not disturb" Device for my home office

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Post by venturecruelty »

nimbius wrote: post #6

"a lot of times my mother asks me if she can come in the room for reasons I won't get into" You've appeared to engineer your way around an interpersonal relationship that you lack the emotional, social intelligence and maturity to deal with. Welcome to the front page of HN i guess. you're well on the way to becoming a founder.

It's hard to deal with a parent who doesn't respect your boundaries. I agree, I don't think more transistors can adequately solve what is actually a communication issue. I hope OP looks into codependency/enmeshment, because some parent-child relationships, especially mother-son ones, become enmeshed, and this results in things like the mother not having appropriate boundaries with the son. This might look like, for example, frequently interrupting you in a private space.

Re: Show HN: I built a "Do not disturb" Device for my home office

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Post by cuu508 »

3eb7988a1663 wrote: post #39
cuu508 wrote: post #34

Here's my low tech do-not-disturb device ;-) https://i.imgur.com/rnwEGIZ.jpeg

I like to imagine you spent more effort right-sizing the wood vs installing a door knob with a lock.

I happened to have a piece of scrap wood of the right length already. Making the hole with a hand drill took maybe 2 minutes. Don't think sourcing and installing a lock mechanism would be quicker :-)

Re: Show HN: I built a "Do not disturb" Device for my home office

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Post by bartvk »

galleywest200 wrote: post #19
bartvk wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's bizarre is that my previous TP-Link routers alawys had this ability, but when I upgraded two years ago, it was gone.

My current TP-Link router hides this behind the "Advanced" settings toggle.

I've got a TP-Link Archer C7, hardware version 5. No such toggle unfortunately, but thanks nevertheless. Perhaps I should try and flash it with OpenWRT.

Re: Show HN: I built a "Do not disturb" Device for my home office

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Post by manarth »

dhosek wrote: post #25
kjkjadksj wrote: post #10

Would love a way to disable the Do Not Disturb button on my macbook without flipping the f keys. Any ideas? Tap it accidentally and you miss all calls and texts for the day on your iphone…

There is (was?) a utility that would flip individual F keys on the Mac, although it’s been years since I used it and who knows if it still works post Apple Silicon transition. TBH, I kind of miss the touch bar. Once they restored the esc key, it was often kind of useful while I tend not to use any of the keys in the F row (even those mapped by IntelliJ since the whole fn+F key thing is a kind of a pain and I seldom h…

    > "There is (was?) a utility that would flip individual F keys on the Mac"
Function Flip: https://kevingessner.com/software/functionflip/

Re: Show HN: I built a "Do not disturb" Device for my home office

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Post by nasmorn »

venturecruelty wrote: post #42
nimbius wrote: post #6

"a lot of times my mother asks me if she can come in the room for reasons I won't get into" You've appeared to engineer your way around an interpersonal relationship that you lack the emotional, social intelligence and maturity to deal with. Welcome to the front page of HN i guess. you're well on the way to becoming a founder.

It's hard to deal with a parent who doesn't respect your boundaries. I agree, I don't think more transistors can adequately solve what is actually a communication issue. I hope OP looks into codependency/enmeshment, because some parent-child relationships, especially mother-son ones, become enmeshed, and this results in things like the mother not having appropriate boundaries with the son. This might look like, for e…

Maybe the reasons he doesn’t get into is that the only working toilet is only accessible through this room and his mom cannot avoid going in several times a day. Maybe it also stores her Polly Pocket collection and she has a strong need to check a specific doll multiple times a day. Knowing moms I consider the later more likely

Re: Show HN: I built a "Do not disturb" Device for my home office

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Post by stevenhubertron »

rlue wrote: post #8

Like all the other commenters here, I also devised my own solution—but AFAICT, it's the only other solution that's automated! Requirements: * macOS * Zoom * Home Assistant * A signal light/sign on a smart switch (like [0]) The Procedure: First, create a script that checks whether you're currently on a Zoom call, and then turns your signal light on or off accordingly. Remember to chmod +x! #!/bin/sh if [ $(lsof -i 4UD…

You can make this quite a bit easier you could just connect your Apple calendar or Google calendar to Home Assistant directly and just set up an automation there no script needed

Re: Show HN: I built a "Do not disturb" Device for my home office

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Post by Neywiny »

OhSoHumble wrote: post #38
rlue wrote: post #8

Like all the other commenters here, I also devised my own solution—but AFAICT, it's the only other solution that's automated! Requirements: * macOS * Zoom * Home Assistant * A signal light/sign on a smart switch (like [0]) The Procedure: First, create a script that checks whether you're currently on a Zoom call, and then turns your signal light on or off accordingly. Remember to chmod +x! #!/bin/sh if [ $(lsof -i 4UD…

I have something similar that I built a long while ago. It's a large Do Not Disturb sign. There is a raspberry pi mini that controls power going to it. There is a corresponding daemon running on a PC that checks Discord call status. In call? Power to sign. Not in call? No power to sign. The client/server daemons are in Golang and communicate over RPC.

What does the pi do? Feels like something that could get replaced with an ESP32 if it needs to be remote or just an ftdi chip or some other usb to gpio if not
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