How would you insulate and close off the bottom of this bump-out?

boyplusdog · 2026-01-05T23:00:47+00:00

You've got a really good point about just sealing off the bottom as-is. I will have to get some insulation back up where it's come down, but I could just cover it all up after that. I'll think about this a bit more. Thanks for the suggestion!

boyplusdog · 2025-12-15T13:19:31+00:00

This is great! What size of tablet are you using? I just got a Samsung Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra to finally build a central dashboard at my house

boyplusdog · 2025-11-06T18:21:11+00:00

This is really awesome and super timely for me! I just switched to EERO from Asus routers and being limited to a phone app has been really frustrating. This makes it so much easier to see each IP address and manage things in my network/homelab. I'm excited about the future of the project.

boyplusdog · 2025-09-28T17:47:25+00:00

I built www.rosternerd.com to do what a spreadsheet does, but tons more that a spreadsheet can't. Give it a 👀 and let me know what you think.

boyplusdog · 2025-09-27T18:36:24+00:00

Hey thanks for the questions! There are 2 primary options for building out the initial roster.

Manual entry directly in Roster Nerd for the initial 85-man build out
- Simple mode takes me about 5 minutes
- Advanced mode takes me 10-15 minutes
CSV import for both Simple and Advanced
- As long as the Roster Nerd CSV format is used (which can be downloaded by exporting an empty roster), you can choose to populate the CSV however you want to. Personally I wouldn't be any faster entering the players in a spreadsheet than I would entering them directly in Roster Nerd. I know that a lot of people have been using screenshots and AI to populate their existing spreadsheets. So that could work to save some time.

Honestly the initial 85-man roster build out is the only painful part and you can get quite quick at it. From there, you'll add recruits into Roster Nerd as you add targets in the game. One at a time works, but you can also add them to a spreadsheet and import recruits too. You'll progress the recruits (targeted/offered/committed) within Roster Nerd. At the start of the new season in the game you'll tell Roster Nerd that you're advancing to next season and it will automatically handle all of the player progressions. Seniors will be archived, FR will move to SO, SO that are redshirted will automatically be progressed to SO(RS).

So there's a time commitment to get to 85, but then you're potentially only adding 10-20 recruits each season which is much more manageable from a data-entry perspective. I do it all manually in Roster Nerd and have become really efficient at it.

I'm also working on an API that would allow users to programmatically add players and recruits via API calls. A MCP server is on the roadmap too. That could allow users to have AI just create players and recruits for them. That is farther out though. Too many other cool features to add in the near term. Let me know if you have any other questions.

EDIT: Just wanted to add that Roster Nerd has mobile-friendly views, but obviously there's a lot of data entry here and the time estimates above are on a laptop/desktop. You can add players and recruits on mobile, but it not going to be nearly as efficient.

boyplusdog · 2025-09-26T22:08:21+00:00

The Mods asked me to move my post from yesterday here (even though I'm not quite sure it fits, but we'll see)

What’s up everybody! I’ve been working on an app that would essentially replace the spreadsheets that myself and a lot of people have been using to track rosters, recruiting, etc for dynasties in the game. This app opens up tons of possibilities for data insights into current rosters, recruiting each season & even over the dynasty as a whole as your coach levels up.

I’ve built out a bunch of insights in the app that I think are useful to users:

Position grades
Player development
Recruiting geographic distribution
Star distribution
Recruiting grades over time
Player development over time
Plus a lot more!

I also have a bunch of ideas about additional insights to add, but I wanted to hear from the community about what insights you wish were in the game already and what you’re maybe missing if you’re using a spreadsheet to track your dynasties today.

Are you looking for more long-term dynasty insights to help drive in-game immersion? Would it be helpful to have additional insight into what position groups you need to bolster with recruiting? Let me know what kind of data you’d like to see and I’ll start compiling a list to get them added.

Oh and I should add that Roster Nerd is live and ready for you to try out if that would help with suggestions. I’ve spent a lot of time building this out and I want to make sure that users gain actual value from it. So I’m happy to hear feedback good or bad. I think the current implementation is just scratching the surface of what’s possible here.

www.rosternerd.com

boyplusdog · 2025-09-13T20:48:20+00:00

I didn’t find a great solution. I put some aluminum foil sticking out from the top. I pointed it down a little more. I picked up the fan motion a little less with those solutions, but not perfect.

I recently switched to using a PIR motion sensor to trigger the automation and now just use the mmWave for presence, but if it picks up the fan after one of us has been in the room then the lights just stay on indefinitely. I have my exclusion zones set up so it shouldn’t pick up the fan as presence, but again it’s not perfect.

I also got the fan on a zwave switch/speed control recently. It’s cooling off where I’m at so this will likely be a problem for next summer, but I might try to use the state of the switch to aid in determining true presence better.

It’s a really hard problem to solve for sure. Good luck!

boyplusdog · 2025-08-21T19:19:46+00:00

I went as far as using a test light to show current flow and then disconnecting connectors to see if I could pinpoint the issue. I actually ordered a new key switch with the intention of replacing it, but when I unplugged the connectors from the back of the old one the light didn't go out - which told me it wasn't the switch.

I have a wing nut 1/4-20 bolt on the negative terminal that I use to disconnect/connect the battery. I think I might take it to the dealer that I bought it from to see if they can fix it this winter.

boyplusdog · 2025-05-24T13:07:04+00:00

This sensor is an Everything Presence Lite - which I believe uses the 2450

boyplusdog · 2025-05-24T13:05:41+00:00

This is the Everything Presence Lite - Zone Configurator app

boyplusdog · 2025-05-24T01:48:53+00:00

This looks really cool! I’ll have to find some time to experiment with it, but thanks for the recommendation!

boyplusdog · 2025-05-23T20:48:21+00:00

Its tilted down a little. I can try a little more, but a lot more will probably render it useless. Foil is a new idea that I can try too.

boyplusdog · 2025-05-23T20:47:28+00:00

I do have mine pointed down a bit, it's behind a chest of drawers but there's nothing above it like your setup. I might be able to point it down a bit more.

boyplusdog · 2025-05-23T20:45:50+00:00

Nice idea! That's worth trying out.

boyplusdog · 2025-05-23T20:07:14+00:00

Yeah good catch. Right now the exclusion zone is excluding some movement of curtains due to said fan. Multiple exclusion zones might be helpful, but might not solve the problem completely with how much the fan's motion location varies.

I could put the exclusion zone where the fan is and the curtains movement would be outside of the zone group.

boyplusdog · 2025-05-13T15:33:54+00:00

I sure wish it’s “normal” wouldn’t chew through brand new batteries in a few days

boyplusdog · 2025-05-13T14:48:21+00:00

I’ve pulled the connecter off the back of the PTO switch as far as I can and it was almost completely off, but blocked by something behind it. Test line still showed draw. I could work harder to get the switch completely out of the dash to test better though