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Has anyone done this on smaller scale? Say 4 or 8 stations? We have space in our basement. And with our kids getting into pre-teen/teen years, I think it'd be fun to have a place for lan parties.
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Might be able to use a flipper zero as the sensor, if the cats are chipped. Then you'll have data to catch any unusual usage, like a urinary blockage, before it becomes a serious problem! At that point you're a smart switch and Home Assistant script away from fan control.
I would recommend to use an TVOC sensor that detects smell very easily and then automatically switch on a fan. Could be a fun project. Just need: - TVOC sensor like the SGP41 - ESP32 microcontroller - Electric Relay
This is truely living the dream, well done mate! It is indeed crazy that cabinetry costs the same as the technology. How does the cat restroom exhaust work? Always on or does it have a sensor? Do the cat doors prevent sound getting into the kids' rooms from the living room?
The cat room fans are standard bathroom fans. At present we just leave them on all the time -- you can see the switches taped down in the photos. I suppose it might be a good idea to rig up a sensor...
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+1 ebay x520 cards. My entire 10g sfp+ home network runs on a bunch of x520s, fs.com DACs/AOCs, Mikrotik switches, and an old desktop running FreeBSD with a few x520s in it as the core router. Very very cheap to assemble and has been absolutely bulletproof. IME at this point in time the ixgbe driver is extremely stable. x520s with full-height brackets do exist (I have a box full of them), but you may pay like $3-5/ea…
sfp+ is clearly cheaper, and less heat/power, but I've got cat5e in the walls and between my house and detached garage, so I've got to use 10g-baseT to get between the garage and the house, and up to my office from the basement. At my two network closet areas, I use sfp+ for servers. I think my muni fiber install happening this week might have a 10G-baseT handoff, and I've got a port for that open on my switch in the…
Cheers, to many GGs at the LAN parties.