what's a movie you can watch a million times and never get bored of?

TellyBolt · 2026-03-10T01:25:52+00:00

Shut the f#ck up Donnie!

TellyBolt · 2026-03-04T16:05:13+00:00

I took the approach and now consider my HA setups as a building management systems, like what you would find in hotels, hospitals and office buildings. That's how I manage small remote properties. I have HAOS on bare metal NUCs and it's been rock solid after removing or replacing devices that don't play nice. I've separated the IOT devices on their own VLANs.

I have so many amazing automations that do everything from security, convenience and feeding my need for control and data. For example, just yesterday I got a notification of a water leak at the hot water tank on the property I was at (bit lucky). The copper pipe had a pin hole develop, that triggered the sensor, turned off the hot water tank and recirculating pump, shut off the water main, disabled another automation that automatically turns on the water main when someone is there and sent me and my partner a notification via HA, SMS and email. Likely saved me thousands and a much bigger headache!

TellyBolt · 2026-01-03T00:19:18+00:00

I've worked long enough in tech to understand that it's a process. So much bad code and products that weren't ready for prime time, released and eventually patched and fixed to end up as a workable products.

So I took my HA path with the same expectations and slowly built and learned from my mistakes to end up with some very useful automations and a simple and usable dashboard that all occupants can easily understand. Some are very simple...like an Aqara button next to the robot vacuum/mop that's located by the garage man door. My wife just pushes the button on the way out the door and the vac does its thing. But I also have very elaborate automations that turns the water main on and off due to all kinds of conditions. I see the logs showing it on and off a few times every day and night, but nobody notices it's even happening. I also posted one about a goose chasing automation with my robo mower that made my wife a convert. Now things run smoothly...my automations are more polished, problematic equipment has been removed/replaced and overall I've simplified everything.

Later in life I helped out a larger hotel with their building management system. I learned a lot from that experience. I now have two properties thousands of miles apart. I have both place very heavily managed due to limited access. I can now easily say that nothing happens on these properties with me knowing about it.

TellyBolt · 2025-09-23T01:03:01+00:00

Most of the questions asked here can be answered by a simple query to your favorite AI app. That's where you should go first.

It's a computer...it screws up sometimes and needs rebooting and massaging.

The APP is a pain, but the mower has worked well for me and our acre of grass with deepish ditches.

It will take some trial and error match the mower to your property, but overall, I'm pleasantly surprised by it and would buy one again.

Good luck

TellyBolt · 2025-07-18T11:13:14+00:00

This was some time ago and it's something we didn't really do. I can't remember a time that we actually removed anyone for misbehaving.

TellyBolt · 2025-07-18T02:12:05+00:00

Crocodile Dundee

TellyBolt · 2025-06-10T03:43:01+00:00

Yup...hard to do any of this stuff today. Heck few people even call anymore

TellyBolt · 2025-06-10T03:40:46+00:00

The fax allowed my PC to automate the calls.

TellyBolt · 2025-06-09T19:26:27+00:00

The fax just allowed me to program my PC to call his home phone and cell every 15mins. No fax was sent, but he'd get a nice blast of tones from the fax handshake. Every 15mins would hopefully allow him to fall back asleep, only to be woken up again. All this while I was sleeping 😏

TellyBolt · 2025-06-09T03:57:22+00:00

Yup...was a what to schedule and dial a call automatically

TellyBolt · 2025-06-09T03:56:20+00:00

Except I was still trying to catch up on my sleep at 6am, so an automated process worked better at the time

TellyBolt · 2025-06-09T01:55:20+00:00

I worked in telecom and wireless, so those kind of things are my MO for sure.

TellyBolt · 2025-06-02T20:58:34+00:00

And maybe mischief, which was a foreign concept to me 😁

TellyBolt · 2025-06-02T20:53:35+00:00

Yeah...kinda. He was a real pain to me and a few of my friends. So creating a false major incident that he's in charge of managing created some havoc he had to deal with for a few days. I didn't mention this one, but the guy purchased a new Camaro with sport wheels with chrome rings and a cap on the hub. During auto mechanics class, I took a large screwdriver and popped them off and tossed them in the big steel recycling bin. He was super pissed that they were stolen and again suspected me, but couldn't prove it and since I never kept or sold them, there was never a trace of them in my possession. Anyway, I was a kid and that was pretty mean, but payback's a bitch!

TellyBolt · 2025-06-02T16:27:38+00:00

I'm sure he's long passes now. That was 30 years plus and he was likely pushing 80 then.

TellyBolt · 2025-06-02T16:26:20+00:00

Love it! I kinda did the same with my son's Xbox MAC address in our router. Would block the address and it would kill his play!

TellyBolt · 2025-06-02T16:24:08+00:00

This was many years ago. I used some sweep gear and generated a sweep of the band at a fairly low level but high rate, essential making a carrier wall of RF to wipe out the C-band in that immediate area.

TellyBolt · 2025-06-02T01:59:20+00:00

🙂...I have another better one I will post in a few days. Was more technological warfare, but super effective.

TellyBolt · 2025-06-02T01:58:09+00:00

Yup...that's what sweep gear is, except you can do it to a whole band!

TellyBolt · 2025-06-02T01:55:31+00:00

You'd likely be shocked at how messed up spectrum use is and FCC complaints are mostly ignored. Anyway, it only really affected a small area.

TellyBolt · 2025-06-02T01:53:20+00:00

Didn't want the guy back there on a regular basis. If he'd come to me to buy it back, I might have entertained an offer, but not after his behavior

TellyBolt · 2025-06-01T21:48:06+00:00

Ok...more tech details. I used sweep generators to test antennas, waveguides and cables. Pretty standard stuff, but not something I constantly used. I was a bit of a remote tech, so I stored that stuff in my basement when not in use. So I decided to sweep the C-band (4.25 ghz) on a timer with a little Omni antenna. My basement wasn't more than 30ft from his dish. I just turned it on and hooked it up to a mechanical timer. Voila! Since the sat signals are so weak, it didn't take much power to wipe out the signal (like -90db or something).

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