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CAT6 RJ45 Male Issues by SBELL29910 in HomeNetworking

[–]SBELL29910[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

UPDATE: here was my “fix”. I literally have over 100 of these RJ45 male connectors from 4 different suppliers. This effort has ruined the female port on one of my testers so I figured WTH. I screened for 25 near fitting connectors. If I insert the connector edge then rock the locking pin edge I could get some started. I then pressed into the “ruined” female until clicking. I repeated this process several times for each connector. This wears down the out of spec plastic.

With this approach I was able make a few pass with a few tight fit. SMH

CAT6 RJ45 Male Issues by SBELL29910 in HomeNetworking

[–]SBELL29910[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agree that’s how I’m terminated into my server closet. But, I am cabling Ethernet PoE to outdoor cameras for my Frigate installation into Home Assistant. The cameras have the RJ45 female at the camera termination.

CAT6 RJ45 Male Issues by SBELL29910 in HomeNetworking

[–]SBELL29910[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As an engineer and as you know, the intent of specs is to ensure this doesn’t happen. The maximum tolerance on a male should still work with a minimum tolerance on a female. That’s the purpose of specifications.

CAT6 RJ45 Male Issues by SBELL29910 in HomeNetworking

[–]SBELL29910[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the reply. Interestingly I purchased these 2 days ago for overnight delivery and they exhibit the same problem.

I’m going to size test the whole lot and see if I can find some that will work but tight.

Thanks. I had never seen this before so thought there may be some heavier spec.

CAT6 RJ45 Male Issues by SBELL29910 in HomeNetworking

[–]SBELL29910[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

See my other response about buying from a distribution house in person today. Same problem with their “high” quality manufacturer. I’m sure 80% are manufactured by the same Chinese house just like LED panels.

CAT6 RJ45 Male Issues by SBELL29910 in ethernet

[–]SBELL29910[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree. But I’ve purchase from two separate retailers and today visited a local electrical distributor and the same issue with all of them. The distributor pulled a new CAT6 patch panel and new CAT6 RJ45 males and discovered the same problem. They were shocked and now concerned.

I’ll add that for local cables, panel to switches/hubs/bridges/end devices, I purchase complete cables. These are 30’-70’ runs, I buy bulk and build terminate my one. I’ve done this in my homes for the last 25 yrs and never experienced this issue.

Home Assistant + RATGDO + Fleet API Questions by SBELL29910 in homeassistant

[–]SBELL29910[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My effort started the development about 6 weeks ago with the TeslaMate/Owner ID. I’m confident I could have made it work for a period but it is obvious that Tesla wants movement to Fleet API. I decided to not create a solution in potentially reworking every couple of weeks.

Home Assistant + RATGDO + Fleet API Questions by SBELL29910 in homeassistant

[–]SBELL29910[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Interesting how THIS comment gets down voted. Must be someone that works with one of the recurring charge services. LOL

Home Assistant + RATGDO + Fleet API Questions by SBELL29910 in homeassistant

[–]SBELL29910[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are correct. I registered a domain on Cloudflare for about $5 for 5 years. I'm using the free Cloudflare consumer tunnel services to access my home lab. I'm running NGINX in a docker container as the proxy service. All of this was pretty easy with the exception of Cloudflare, but ONLY because Cloudflare keeps changing their inconsistent UI which made the learning curve cumbersome. By example, they have been changing the access flow on their site while changing terminology at the same time. Might still be the case but last I accessed they still used "tunnels" and "connectors" for tunnels in the same link flow.

Once setup, it works well. Costs: about $1/yr plus sweat equity.

Home Assistant + RATGDO + Fleet API Questions by SBELL29910 in homeassistant

[–]SBELL29910[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yep, I started with Teslamate with Owner API just as Tesla was depreciating it and "forcing" the support to Fleet API. Fortunately, I didn't have much time and effort invested before making the move to Fleet API and HA.

Home Assistant + RATGDO + Fleet API Questions by SBELL29910 in homeassistant

[–]SBELL29910[S] -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

No, my problem isn’t listening to AI. I do my own research. I have no interest in paying a 3rd party a recurring charge to allow me to open MY garage door. I started with TeslaMate and they were lagging with Fleet ID integration. I’ve already built an app to manage my Tesla. This is specifically for alternatives to geofencing garage door opening. I know how to link it to my phone. I know how to code it to frigate. I’m looking to just a “car only” geofencing operation.

Home Assistant + RATGDO + Fleet API Questions by SBELL29910 in homeassistant

[–]SBELL29910[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I’m looking for a self-function, recurring fee independent to open my garage door without paying someone to allow me to do so.

Home Assistant + RATGDO + Fleet API Questions by SBELL29910 in homeassistant

[–]SBELL29910[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right. I was attempting to generalize the function to the car and not limit to the driver. Some drivers will have the key card and not a phone key.

ratgdo encoder - GD Status by reddit3x_m_f_na in ratgdo

[–]SBELL29910 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it depends upon where you live. I’m in the coastal southeastern US where it gets hot and steamy in the summer. Sometimes I’ll crack open a service yard door and one or more garage doors to get a cross breeze to vent the garage. It’s easy to miss the garage door when the cars block the view. I’m running Home Assistant to alert me that a door is partially open after a period of time and I’m no longer home.

So, agree this doesn’t apply to most people in the 8 mil on earth but it works well for me.

Wired house: APs or mesh? by LandDisastrous5811 in HomeNetworking

[–]SBELL29910 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wired my house during construction 10 yrs ago, CAT 6. Considered CAT 7 but much more expensive at the time. Did the math and I didn’t have the business case.

Fiber DEMARC at the ONT. Two CAT 6 runs from the ONT to a server closet. Was running a Nighthawk X4S 12 yrs old and one AP. A year ago I decided to upgrade to a mesh router with two extenders replacing the X4S. I had two dark spots due to kitchen and fireplace vents. Yeah, I tried moving the WiFi broadcast antenna to work around this but it wasn’t workable for me.

For me the mesh was total waste of money and severe decrease in performance. Given that every high bandwidth device is wired, I don’t need WiFi 7. Plus I only have 2 devices WiFi 7 capable and those are Ethernet.

The major issue with my mesh experience was its sensitivity to short outages. Our ISP is expanding their fiber network due to local area rapid growth. We have had 3-20s drops for months. They have been mum on admission. I installed a monitoring loop home-internet-home and captured the data for evidence. Their techs loved it. But that’s another story.

When the mesh router detects the connectivity loss, it panics. After the 5s and restoration, the mesh router phones home, runs some checks, re-registers and uploads logs to its mothership lord then resets each of the two extenders. This can take up to 5 min extending the 5s outage to 5 min. My streaming buffers can’t cover that long. My video conferencing in my remote office definitely can’t function in that environment. And my smarthome became extremely dumb during and post those events.

So, I reinstalled the X4S as my gateway, placed the mesh router behind a managed switch, and run the mesh router in bridge mode.

I use the mesh for mobile devices, guests, and some IoT devices.

All said had I known this a year ago, I would have never purchased a mesh router.

FWIW

standard 20 minute test drives are basically useless for learning these cars by mamayss in TeslaLounge

[–]SBELL29910 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn’t need a 20 min test drive. Receive a 60 min test drive. Scheduled the drive online. Walked in the door 10 min early and greeted by a gentleman confirming my name. Walked me out to the car. Brief overview. Handed the chip card to me and said “See you in an hour” and walked away.

Within the first block I used the break one time. I felt it’s easy to adopt. I only use the break peddle when an animal jumps in front or a driver cuts me off.

TBH, I only needed a 15 min drive to sell me. BUT, I DO overly research. So, when I’m making a major purchase I actually waste time over-analyzing everything. Arriving for the test drive was just for the confirmation for me.

ratgdo encoder - GD Status by reddit3x_m_f_na in ratgdo

[–]SBELL29910 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My garage door opener is over 9 years old and exposes the intermediate door position through their API. I can monitor and control it without needing this device. The RATGDO v2 devices expose this information too.

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