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Re: Tell me your most exotic selfhosted solution
#2I 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 perhaps my favorite part of my home.
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#3I acquired a tactical LTE base station on eBay that had a fairly clean copy of Druid Raemis in a VM on it. After some wrangling and reverse engineering, that VM is now the core of my home CBRS LTE network with a license-free band 48 radio in my house.
Why? Cordless phones with a second SIM card. ;)
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#4I have gigabit copper to the house, but the Ethernet cable coming into the house kept negotiating at 100mbit connection randomly. ISP just kept blaming my equipment. Especially since rebooting the router fixed it. Although unplugging and plugging in the Ethernet from the ISP is really what fixed it.
I wrote a script that ran fast.com's speed test every hour. If it detected 105mbits it would do two things, if it was during the day, it'd turn one of the Phillips hue lights in my office to red and turn it on if it wasn't. That let me decide if I could take the downtime during work to fix the Internet or if I'd just live with it. If my partner spotted it, he'd tell me we had a "red light special"
If it was at night, I found there was an undocumented soap protocol for my router and I could reboot it. I didn't care about downtime at night so the script would do it and not deal with the light.
The system worked wonderfully, my partner has asked me to expand the light thing to other situations in the house and other lights. He wants something hooked to his aquarium.
Eventually after about 6 months of this script we took it upon ourselves to replace the ISP Ethernet and made the script unnecessary, but it was a fascinating exercise in stringing together all kinds of random systems, would do it again in a heartbeat, though I might swap the cable first.
Re: Tell me your most exotic selfhosted solution
#5I acquired a tactical LTE base station on eBay that had a fairly clean copy of Druid Raemis in a VM on it. After some wrangling and reverse engineering, that VM is now the core of my home CBRS LTE network with a license-free band 48 radio in my house. Why? Cordless phones with a second SIM card. ;)
That's pretty dope. I'd happily read more detailed case study of this. Don't mean to be pushy, just encouraging
Re: Tell me your most exotic selfhosted solution
#6I acquired a tactical LTE base station on eBay that had a fairly clean copy of Druid Raemis in a VM on it. After some wrangling and reverse engineering, that VM is now the core of my home CBRS LTE network with a license-free band 48 radio in my house. Why? Cordless phones with a second SIM card. ;)
Interesting. I had no idea CBRS existed. Can you provide any more information about the base station and what your experience was like?
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#7I acquired a tactical LTE base station on eBay that had a fairly clean copy of Druid Raemis in a VM on it. After some wrangling and reverse engineering, that VM is now the core of my home CBRS LTE network with a license-free band 48 radio in my house. Why? Cordless phones with a second SIM card. ;)
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#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?
Re: Tell me your most exotic selfhosted solution
#9I acquired a tactical LTE base station on eBay that had a fairly clean copy of Druid Raemis in a VM on it. After some wrangling and reverse engineering, that VM is now the core of my home CBRS LTE network with a license-free band 48 radio in my house. Why? Cordless phones with a second SIM card. ;)
Related discussions on OSS LTE/5G networking, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27946947
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#10> 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?
There is a pretty good[0] movie about that. They'll be fine :)