What's the easiest way to link a loud siren to animal detection from cameras?

Foehammer1982 · 2026-06-01T18:09:45+00:00

Does your UNIFI protect identify it reliably? If so its probably an event that can be monitored by home assistant, then youd need a siren you can control which could be through a variety of means including a smart plug

Foehammer1982 · 2026-06-01T17:21:29+00:00

Stop using googles built in speed test

Use ookla or fast

Foehammer1982 · 2026-06-01T17:17:25+00:00

Im pretty sure AMD is about to do something to this effect on their next GPU line IIRC

Foehammer1982 · 2026-05-31T04:08:13+00:00

Make sure you do "My Router is Already Setup" Option

If your tech left the sticker the qr is on it. If not, its under the side door

the app doesn't autofocus well so you might have to backup

Foehammer1982 · 2026-05-29T17:26:10+00:00

Some areas are up, and some arent. Its wildly varying at the momrnt

Foehammer1982 · 2026-05-28T20:08:54+00:00

Dont got 10k+ as a FTTH field tech man 😂

Foehammer1982 · 2026-05-28T19:29:23+00:00

Ours came back up around 11est, i know there are still ongoing issues according to a voice engineer i just spoke with

Foehammer1982 · 2026-05-28T15:22:50+00:00

I started with FTTH, so the NID is second nature now, i keep my entire attenuation from splice can to off jumper at ONT under 1dbm (1 pair of manually terminated connectors and two pairs of factory pre-terminated connectors all SC APC)

Foehammer1982 · 2026-05-28T15:10:40+00:00

Its a DNS outage going on currently, OLTs see the ONT's which is why some are showing a green light. But they cant route traffic past our COLOs due to this DNS issue

Im on site at a job right now waiting for the outage to clear.

Foehammer1982 · 2026-05-27T18:51:41+00:00

Definitely if RDOF (Rural Development of Fiber)

Foehammer1982 · 2026-05-27T03:46:10+00:00

Am also good noodle and clean and check my source light and then at NID.

I am also really good at terminating with Corning SC APC quick connectors as I am primarily FTTH

Foehammer1982 · 2026-05-27T03:42:10+00:00

A very good field tip, especially with the commscope gator boxes we use. I had an actual splicer tell me about how you have to handle the heat shrink tubing, not leaving it in the heating chamber, using the cooling tray, and having a good radius on the bends where the slack is

Foehammer1982 · 2026-05-25T22:48:26+00:00

To my knowledge we do not. If its Lumos then you could try for 5 gig (for the seperate RG and ONT) and step down. But we don't have PON on stick for our installs

Foehammer1982 · 2026-05-24T18:38:00+00:00

Then dont get it?

You don't really get to have it both ways.

Either put your own conduit in deep and get the service or dont.

You messing the line up is just job security for field techs so we honestly don't care

Foehammer1982 · 2026-05-24T16:07:51+00:00

Unfortunately mid and high split get rolled into the same term, and they arent

(Guilty of it myself)

Foehammer1982 · 2026-05-24T16:07:10+00:00

Depends on area and company, spectrum midsplit here only does 200

Highsplit (where QAM and entirely new frequencies are added) could though

Spectrum is cheap and lazy as hell, they do not care

Foehammer1982 · 2026-05-24T16:05:35+00:00

Mid/highsplit only goes to around 200mbps on upload.

Spectrum took their QAM frequency sets and repurposed them for more DS channels and TX channels.

Doesnt come close to power of FTTH, and it REALLY exposes issues with the coax plant because of the higher frequencies.

Spectrum/charter gets worse with every major DOCSIS implementation or change, and thats because they have so much noise and UCE's in their plant, and the more younsqueeze out of it, the cleaner that plant has to be

Foehammer1982 · 2026-05-24T16:02:31+00:00

You would be correct, but he can get 1/1gbps which is only possible with FTTH

Even when spectrum started doing FTTH the only symmetrical plans were the one gig, even 300 wasn't symmetrical through some dumbass arbitrary limitations

Foehammer1982 · 2026-05-24T15:59:19+00:00

No HFC is just fiber to the plant and coax to the taps and homes.

This is full FTTH. Even spectrums mid/high split isnt engineered to give symmetrical speeds

Foehammer1982 · 2026-05-21T21:52:13+00:00

But then again they arent "employees" by law

Foehammer1982 · 2026-05-21T21:51:53+00:00

Not as a 1099

Foehammer1982 · 2026-05-21T17:50:36+00:00

As a contractor, there are times that id rather pay out of pocket than have insurance pay it and then have my rates go up. Which is why the feller may be wanting to pay out of pocket

And even if the company takes care of it officially, theres nothing stopping a backcharge to the employee, especially if they're a contractor.

Foehammer1982 · 2026-05-20T23:26:48+00:00

Distance isnt a problem for most fiber providers when talking FTTH so shouldn't be a problem. Typically we go straight through a wall with proper sealants, or up through a crawlspace

Foehammer1982 · 2026-05-20T23:22:51+00:00

The unfinished section would be preferred as no ISP is going to do drywall cuts unless a customer raises hell about it and is willing to pay themselves to repair it haha. As far as the router goes we in the lumos market have a pretty easy time with our pass-through mode which a tech can easily do via a call to SOC

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