GreatAlbatross @ GreatAlbatross @feddit.uk

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I mean, that's where all my sensors are, and they're doing OK.

My outdoor sensors are classic 433mhz meteorology ones though, as I didn't want to mess around waterproofing zigbee gear.

Have you considered mounting a door sensor (depending on the letterbox type).
If it has a shutter, you could mount the two parts on the inside, on the edge.
Do americans still use those flag things on mailboxes? As I guess you could also use a door sensor on the flag.

I swear it's the blackout curtains. I'll draw them tight on the first night, then have a surprise in the morning if I didn't set my alarm.

Going back to the source, the quote is: " LIVERPOOL are the UK’s cryptocurrency connoisseurs - with one in 10 (13%) regularly investing and checking their online stocks"

I'm not sure if they've bundled regular market investment with crypto.

I knew this would come up, which is why I threw in the "ok for consumer gear" line.
I don't have any super accurate sensors at home to test against, but to be honest, cheap hydrometers are best for vague ranges. "It's damp", "it's normal", or "It's dry".
Which is actually what I use it for: It's in the bathroom to send alerts to open or close the windows based on humidity and outside conditions.

Compared to the rest of the sensors in the house, when the windows are open and air in the house is normalised, it's within 5%, which is about all I could really hope for.

Meeting summary:

• Synergy promoted by Gerald
• Fourth quarter prediction estimate forecasts brainstormed by Jeremy.
• Coffee situation update from Mark.
• Level 4 agility in KCD reached by GreatAlbatross

Some meetings, I wish I'd bought a steamdeck.

Terminal 5 was an absolute masterclass in how to deliver a megaproject.
HS2 is, unfortunately, just another magnitude of complexity. Some of it avoidable, some of it was going to be a pain no matter how much was planned.

It also doesn't help that HS2 got massively underestimated to get political approval and shovels in the ground. (The flipside being, if it had gone with realistic estimates, it could well have been stuck in committee for until 2050)

Sweaty new-builds with no air con

We're slowly getting there. MVHC imo is going to be the next big one that goes in the regulations.
The concept is, you seal the house up so that airflow doesn't happen unless you want it to.
Then set up heat exchangers with ducting between the rooms.
So fresh air can be brought in, cooled/heated by the stale air going out.
And it also lends itself well to aircon systems.

There is also Part O of the building regs, which uses calculated shade on south-facing windows to minimise solar gain in the hottest months.

It's fine though: They've just asked for freedom from liability. And I'm sure they're going to use that power to build a reservoir or something...

Yes.

Edit: More doing a lot of DIY to bring the project into a budget I can afford.
Which means getting specialists in to do smaller things between me doing the grunt work.

At least you've got people in to do it!

Glares at the half finished kitchen taking up my time too

I considered this, but was forbidden: The limescale would leave it looking manky.

I priced it out of curiosity:
One way direct from LHR to Edinburgh was about £50, with an extra £40 for a second seat, and £4 for the best seats at the front.
Honestly, I'd pay an extra £4 for a good seat on a 10 hour drive.

Obviously only £50 if you are willing to gamble on your seatmate not smelling of cheese or something.

For comparison, a flight from LHR to EDI on BA is about £120 on the same day, and takes 90 mins.

If you don't already, wear breathable pyjamas, and cotton bedsheet/duvet cover. And ideally, a non-synthetic duvet.
This will at least reduce the liquid sweat, by allowing it to evaporate better.

Keeping track on when it's hot/not/rainy can help get the house temperature under control.
When it gets cooler at night, you can open the windows to cool the fabric of the house down.
Then close everything up first thing in the morning, including south facing curtains.
The cooler you can get the house overnight, the more heat it can absorb the next day.

So here, I left the window open on one room, (red) and closed on another (dark blue and teal).
When the outside temperature (purple) dropped to 15 overnight, it dragged the orange room down significantly.
(Then I forgot to close the window in the morning, so it kinda got negated 😬)

Other than that, a dehumidifier may help if feeling less muggy, though it will raise the temperature of the room overall slightly, since it's going to use energy to run.
Externally run aircon is, unfortunately, the only real step beyond that. And it's a bit of a chunk of change (£500 for a basic DIY one, £1500+ for one room professionally).

Alternative link if you wanted to change to a non GBNews source: https://scottishgrocer.co.uk/2025/06/12/mcvities-unveils-new-pink-digestives-raspberry-cream-flavour/

It's doing some weird-ass embed here too, which my ad-blocker caught:

I was expecting Garibaldis, so it's an unexpected surprise!

I think live view is how mine are configured, with a snapshot that updates every few minutes.

Then if it's clicked, the true video stream is opened.

That's a very good shout, as it'll save me mucking about in bash.

That was going to be my backup plan, as I didn't want to use any more resource if I could avoid it 😅

The good news is, we figured it out, and got the file serving out of /config/www without an auth requirement.

Aha, that was what I was after, big thanks!

So, after a bit of meddling:

The location I was placing things in was media>my media (from the HA UI).
Assets there are stored in /media, and served in 8123/media/local, but require an autoSig.
Changing permissions doesn't affect the availability, no sig is a 401 error.

However, if the file is copied from /media to /config/www/ , it's then served (as you said) under 8123/local.

Brill, not too painful a process for a few static images (or indeed if I'm feeling brave, I could just symlink the folders).

Maybe one day there will be a way to upload background images for picture elements cards from the UI :)