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Event-driven access to my home after a run

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Re: Event-driven access to my home after a run

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post #68

I put a single house key in my shorts pocket. Been running for years and haven't had an issue with this yet.

Some people just really enjoy solving problems in a convoluted way for the learning experience. I don't have that kind of drive personally--I feel like I learn enough programming during work hours.

Re: Event-driven access to my home after a run

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post #68

I put a single house key in my shorts pocket. Been running for years and haven't had an issue with this yet.

Some people just really enjoy solving problems in a convoluted way for the learning experience. I don't have that kind of drive personally--I feel like I learn enough programming during work hours.

I just did this with great fun. Was suspicious that my house CO2 was getting too high in my bedroom at night -- one Raspberry Pi connected CO2 sensor streaming metrics over WireGuard to a cloud server running Prometheus, Grafana, and sending alerts with Alertmanager and Pushover I now have a very reliable system to tell me to open a window.

Next thing will be auto-provisioning the Pi so I can just flash my image to the SD card and plug it in.

Re: Event-driven access to my home after a run

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post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some people just really enjoy solving problems in a convoluted way for the learning experience. I don't have that kind of drive personally--I feel like I learn enough programming during work hours.

I just did this with great fun. Was suspicious that my house CO2 was getting too high in my bedroom at night -- one Raspberry Pi connected CO2 sensor streaming metrics over WireGuard to a cloud server running Prometheus, Grafana, and sending alerts with Alertmanager and Pushover I now have a very reliable system to tell me to open a window. Next thing will be auto-provisioning the Pi so I can just flash my image to t…

... and automatically opening that window, Neanderthal!

/jk

Re: Event-driven access to my home after a run

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post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some people just really enjoy solving problems in a convoluted way for the learning experience. I don't have that kind of drive personally--I feel like I learn enough programming during work hours.

I just did this with great fun. Was suspicious that my house CO2 was getting too high in my bedroom at night -- one Raspberry Pi connected CO2 sensor streaming metrics over WireGuard to a cloud server running Prometheus, Grafana, and sending alerts with Alertmanager and Pushover I now have a very reliable system to tell me to open a window. Next thing will be auto-provisioning the Pi so I can just flash my image to t…

The SD card contains everything for the RPi, right? I set up a home media server for my parents with RaspBMC and an IR receiver about five years ago. They live in a poor power region so the SD cards can go wrong easily on power failure. I just `dd`'d a bunch of identical SD cards and left it to them to swap.

Ideally, keeping the SD cards read-only would have been better but I was visiting only a few days and I needed to support subtitle download so I settled for this.

Re: Event-driven access to my home after a run

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post #68

I put a single house key in my shorts pocket. Been running for years and haven't had an issue with this yet.

Some people just really enjoy solving problems in a convoluted way for the learning experience. I don't have that kind of drive personally--I feel like I learn enough programming during work hours.

Outside of work, the only project ideas I have are weird convoluted ones just like this, where I spend 40 hours getting a proof of concept working, then never touch it again.

Re: Event-driven access to my home after a run

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post #65
post #45

I'm a runner who has also gotten locked out, and my solution was to install a keypad deadbolt on my front door ($100 at Home Depot). Never had a problem since.

I'm not a fan of the keypad deadbolts, as most I've seen seem to have keys that show wear easily.

You can just rotate the code every few months to wear different keys?
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