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Re: Tell me your most exotic selfhosted solution

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Post by malfist »

nonrandomstring wrote: post #8

> Future project: I have chickens. They lay eggs. I have cameras. I want to know which hen lays how many eggs. Solution? AI image recognition of the hens (who is who) and if they have laid an egg. Any inputs welcome. What happens to the ones that don't lay enough?

Typically hens slow down their egg production after a year or two of age. By that time, their meat is too tough for us to enjoy eating. Most homesteaders just keep them around, partially as pets, partially because they'll still lay eggs, but much less frequently.

In commercial operations, those chickens get turned into animal feed, typically dog food.

Re: Tell me your most exotic selfhosted solution

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Post by goda90 »

I've got one on my backlog that I already have the parts for, just need to set it up.

We leave the radio on for our dog when we're not home. I have a z-wave button that triggers Home Assistant to turn on the AVR to radio and set the volume to a decent level. But on rare occasion the Shield Android TV plugged into the same AVR sees it turning on as an invitation for it to also turn on(which it should if we were actually setting the AVR to it's input source). And when it turns on, the TV also turns on.

I could detect the AVR is on the wrong source and switch it back to radio, but the TV would stay on because the AVR outputs info about the radio channel to the TV.

I don't keep my TV on the network so my plan is to setup a WiFi controlled IR blaster that will turn off the TV when I detect the AVR is on the wrong input.

Re: Tell me your most exotic selfhosted solution

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Post by ta988 »

nonrandomstring wrote: post #8

> Future project: I have chickens. They lay eggs. I have cameras. I want to know which hen lays how many eggs. Solution? AI image recognition of the hens (who is who) and if they have laid an egg. Any inputs welcome. What happens to the ones that don't lay enough?

Hens are so fun to have around, are often really friendly and playful and keep company to you and the other hens. So you keep them.

Re: Tell me your most exotic selfhosted solution

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Post by pcdoodle »

wscourge wrote: post #2

I went there today accidentally. My personal favorite one: I have an automation that is triggered by a door open/close sensor that I have attached to the flushing arm in my toilet with a custom made 3d printed mount for the sensor, which triggers a script on the server which connects to the chromecast speaker in the bathroom and plays the final fantasy 7 battle victory theme whenever someone flushes the toilet. It is…

This is living your best life.

Re: Tell me your most exotic selfhosted solution

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Post by nonrandomstring »

malfist wrote: post #11
nonrandomstring wrote: post #8

> Future project: I have chickens. They lay eggs. I have cameras. I want to know which hen lays how many eggs. Solution? AI image recognition of the hens (who is who) and if they have laid an egg. Any inputs welcome. What happens to the ones that don't lay enough?

Typically hens slow down their egg production after a year or two of age. By that time, their meat is too tough for us to enjoy eating. Most homesteaders just keep them around, partially as pets, partially because they'll still lay eggs, but much less frequently. In commercial operations, those chickens get turned into animal feed, typically dog food.

I think factory birds stop laying real young because of stress. You can buy them for pennies, and miraculously when you take them home to a nice big garden, and talk to them, they start laying again! Yea they're fun! (context: we kept hens when I was kid)

Re: Tell me your most exotic selfhosted solution

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Post by rwky »

wscourge wrote: post #2

I went there today accidentally. My personal favorite one: I have an automation that is triggered by a door open/close sensor that I have attached to the flushing arm in my toilet with a custom made 3d printed mount for the sensor, which triggers a script on the server which connects to the chromecast speaker in the bathroom and plays the final fantasy 7 battle victory theme whenever someone flushes the toilet. It is…

You beat me to it. I love this one.

Re: Tell me your most exotic selfhosted solution

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Post by malfist »

nonrandomstring wrote: post #15
malfist wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Typically hens slow down their egg production after a year or two of age. By that time, their meat is too tough for us to enjoy eating. Most homesteaders just keep them around, partially as pets, partially because they'll still lay eggs, but much less frequently. In commercial operations, those chickens get turned into animal feed, typically dog food.

I think factory birds stop laying real young because of stress. You can buy them for pennies, and miraculously when you take them home to a nice big garden, and talk to them, they start laying again! Yea they're fun! (context: we kept hens when I was kid)

It's not that they stop laying, they just slow down. Why would a factory want a hen that laid an egg every third day when it could hatch a new hen and have an egg almost every day?

Re: Tell me your most exotic selfhosted solution

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Post by dazhbog »

I import lots of crap and need to declare the HS codes and everything.

Wrote a whole app that lets me search through all the HS codes and sub-categories and then check the best tariff/levy/anti-dumping fees based on the search terms and country of origin.

Re: Tell me your most exotic selfhosted solution

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Post by pcdoodle »

Was hungry for money installing CCTV cameras back in the day via 4CH PCI NTSC Capture Cards.

Restaurant customer was really impressed with the tech and kept making new demands:

Q: Can we listen to this cool pandora.com thing over the restaurant speakers?

A: Yes, I we'll use the CCTV cables to run audio from your DVR PC (Pentium 4 I think) to the restaurant AMP. I had the bits and bobs in my car to go from BNC to RCA / 3.5mm.

Q: That's awesome, now can I talk to the customers to make announcements?

A: Sure, see this little speaker icon in the system tray? talk into this mic when you uncheck "mute". Don't forget to mute pandora first.

Q: That's awesome, but I want to make the annoucement from the host station.

A: Let me grab my laptop... Google: VB6 LPT Port. Google: VB6 Volume Mixer. Copy Copy Paste Paste.

Alright, I'm going to mount this old mouse on your wall and solder 2 wires to the clicker (Then to LPT on the DVR PC), it will automatically enable this wall mic when you click the button...

Re: Tell me your most exotic selfhosted solution

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Post by rcarmo »

Wow. My most permanent temporary solution is a doorbell extender I hacked out of an ESP-01 and a buzzer. Whenever the doorbell rings, a door sensor (with a magnetic reed switch) _inserted into the doorbell_ closes, sends a Zigbee packet to my coordinator, which then turns it into an MQTT message, which then gets picked up by Node-RED and re-mapped to the buzzer, which gets it via Wi-Fi.

But some of the solutions on that thread actually make me comfortable with the way this works...

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