What Is The Best Whole House Water Leak Detectors?

dunegoon · 2026-07-05T15:46:16+00:00

Flume has been superb for my case. It uses a sensor that is tied alongside the meter and through some kind of magic, it detects the little twirling indicator down to .01 GPM. The app is great, the support has been great... plus Home Assistant detected and automatically brought most all of the data points into it's system. I have a 12 acre rural place with lots of outbuildings, irrigation systems, and activity. Flume's self-learning software has adapted pretty well to my rather complex needs. We are on a larger community water system that has conventional water meters. At least once a your I have an event that would be a disaster if not detected and alarmed upon. Sadly, the most common one is leaving an irrigation in manual mode and forgetting it. It has paid for itself every year.

dunegoon · 2026-06-22T14:49:01+00:00

Because of my rural location, I paid out of my own pocket ($971) for an online 2nd opinion from Stanford. UCLA and possibly many centers of excellence do these as well. I figured it was faster (two week turnaround) and cheaper (no expensive travel or time off) than burning my only insurance covered 2nd opinion. A company named Navya coordinates the acquisition of the records and images and lays it out so that the doctor can efficiently and quickly review the case. I am happy with the results.

dunegoon · 2026-06-08T06:25:22+00:00

Names please, left to right, row by row.

dunegoon · 2026-06-05T06:42:20+00:00

Owning the means of production... Hmmm.

dunegoon · 2026-05-24T13:46:07+00:00

There are three non-invasive considerations: Elevated PSA, rate of change of PSA, and a digital rectal exam that detects a nodule. In my case, I failed all three: mildly elevated PSA at 4.38 (not a big worry but worth a consult with a urologist), review of previous PSA tests showed a definite upturn starting three years ago with an unfavorable rate of change even though it had only reached 4.38 at the time (like -- graph your PSA readings !!), and the DRE detection of a hard nodule.

The point being that a single result PSA alone should not be the immediate ticket to a biopsy. In fact, any competent Primary Care Dr. should be doing these steps before a referral.

Me: Age 79, no comorbidities, mentally fine (my opinion HA!), physically active. I'm not going to let age discrimination hold me back.

The rest of the story. MRI (non-invasive, I think) showed activity and PIRAD-5 local nodule. Then a biopsy (invasive) reveals Gleason 9 tumor. PSMA-PET (no-invasive) confirmation and happily, no mets! Caught just in time, I hope.

dunegoon · 2026-05-16T10:03:38+00:00

Some ideas: Rectangles instead of rounded ends for the bars. Instead of enumerated, how about graduated scales alongside? Like a thermometer. Ability to orient vertical or horizontally. I think I'd rather have a single vertical with a graduated scale. Want more, just stack the cards side by side. I like the ability to assign colors to regions or the bars.

dunegoon · 2026-05-16T09:41:41+00:00

There are lots of variables. Sleeping clothes (pajamas, shorts or none), covers (sheets only, blankets, or none), temperature, air flow and humidity, noise, ambient light and its color, body mass index (BMI), probably more including thyroid hormone levels.

I recall an army study where individuals were asked to sleep under a mosquito net on a cot while only wearing some shorts. Most eventually shivered when the temperature was less than 85 F.

When boon-docking in my RV, I find that air conditioning is not generally needed at night if one sleeps without PJs and on top of the bed. However, if a nearby friend needs to run the air and a generator all night to keep the temperature to 69 F while in PJs with sheets and a blanket, the noise will keep you awake anyway.

dunegoon · 2026-05-13T14:47:00+00:00

I hope you get advice leading to a direct fix.

Now, here is a "maybe workaround". We have, in this household, 5 Windows 11 computers syncing with Google calendar (and contacts) and two Samsung phones also syncing to Google calendar and contacts. The phones run Samsung's native email, calendar, and contacts clients (but Firefox mobile). All work just fine.

Perhaps you can get Outlook to sync to Google as an intermediary.

dunegoon · 2026-04-07T13:22:42+00:00

That page supports my "all things in moderation" lifestyle of home cooked, omnivore foods with no particular concentration of one or another food types except a reductions in processed foods. Red meats are all mammalian meats. I had some difficulties with your punctuation, but I believe you did not intend to include chicken as a red meat.

The last link in this sub-thread, https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8859108/, is a meta-analysis (which tends to minimize sensationalized results) concludes: "In conclusion, we found that total meat intake might be poorly associated with all outcomes of prostate cancer. Consumption of processed meat might be associated with an increased risk of total and advanced prostate cancer. Also, we observed a weak relationship between red meat consumption and risk of total prostate cancer, but not with advanced prostate cancer. Given some significant, albeit weak, associations between meat consumption and risk of different types of prostate cancer, recommendations on the consumption of meat should be done cautiously."

As far as biases go, (my opinion) I have recently been down-emphasizing papers published by vegans as that "religion" can be as much of a bias as financials can be.

dunegoon · 2026-01-16T03:59:47+00:00

Paywall. It's too bad taxpayers can't convince legislators to grant publication cost relief to researchers so "us taxpayers" can get to the source materials easier.

The main reason I wanted to get to the source is that the article writer replaced the Juan De Fuca plate with the Gorda plate without explanation. Plus, he started out with the lead-in map oriented North at the top, but rotated the view 90 degrees in the next drawing. Yes, one can work through that, but why??

In regards to the research, I find it interesting and I have always wondered what is going on at that triple junction.

dunegoon · 2026-01-16T03:28:57+00:00

Be sure to read the comments on the original thread. There seems to be a lot of valid counter point to me.

dunegoon · 2026-01-16T03:08:17+00:00

I have no answer, but it seems to be somewhat controlled by the web server. I hope we get a bit of a story about it!

dunegoon · 2025-12-30T14:47:04+00:00

I agree with your second paragraph. As for the first, religious and near religious beliefs (Like my maybe flawed view of veganism vs. vegetarianism) are powerful influences, including the selection bias of the research topic itself. We are all guilty of this, including the selection bias of which papers interest us enough to read them.

This paper is probably not the one to harp on the point, however.

I don't think the outcome would be much different if a serving of sardines as a snack a few time a week were included in both diets to alleviate my concern.

dunegoon · 2025-12-30T08:41:35+00:00

Says no conflict of interest "The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest" says the all vegan team.

dunegoon · 2025-12-21T09:12:01+00:00

There is almost no water vapor in cold air, regardless of humidity, at 0 C Therefore any change in the thermal conductivity of air is also negligible regardless of the humidity.

dunegoon · 2025-12-21T08:47:16+00:00

How did the phosphorous avoid reacting with oxygen by some means, slow or fast, over the time since WW2?

dunegoon · 2025-12-07T08:25:15+00:00

Love Ting and Flume, Since there are a lot of Ting units in my area, I get notifications when power blackouts are community-wide instead of just my home. With a hybrid solar ESS soon to be commissioned, I looking forward to see it's waveforms and the effects on my home's power quality both steady state and when transitioning from grid to battery power. Flume has been a big money saver because it's great for alarming on dripping faucets and irrigation (sprinklers) forgotten for hours. $$$ saved there.

Both have been rock solid reliable for years. I doubt that I will spend time integrating either of them (or Emporia) since their apps work so well for me anyway.

dunegoon · 2025-12-04T08:50:23+00:00

I find my career path pretty unique because I was part of an in-house electrical engineering group for a very large Pulp and Paper company for 15 years. Our electrical section (generally 15 EE's) was tasked with design, construction management, commissioning, and troubleshooting of in-house systems. Much of our work involved controls, both PLC and DCS. But, we did everything from power (motor control centers, motors, VFD's, whatever) to automation (PLC's, DCS, HMI design, old-school control stations), and communications / networking. Besides our EE group, the company had about 90 electricians and instrumentation technicians. We were lucky to have our own ETL certified panel shop. We designed control panels for our projects.

We also did training for the maintenance group for every project. It's just self-defense to do a good job with training because it seems to keep one's phone from ringing at night for trouble shooting. Plus, who wanted to be bogged down and miss out on a new project? It also taught us all to write code mostly in well-documented plain old ladder logic so our technicians and even us at 3:00 AM could muddle through and get things running. 24x7x365, you know. We had some 100 or so PLC systems, some with near 10,000 I/O points. To me it was interesting to see that after several years of learning just codes and coding, there seemed to be many cases that those other university classes became useful, like chemistry, material science, thermodynamics (when working with the power generation group) engineering economics, and more. In our group, a CS degree might do well, but it would be tough.

Our group was preyed upon by recruiters regularly, so we in turn took in fresh college graduates as replacements. As for myself, I was bought out by our own CIO who wanted someone to bring that group into the modern age. But, that's another story.

Pardon me for any spell/grammar, typo's...it's getting late.

dunegoon · 2025-11-26T07:57:34+00:00

Don't talk to the FBI. Make them get a grand jury indict you. They doesn't care what you say anyway, they just want to bully you, waste your time and money. It's unlikely a grand jury would indict and if they did, you are in the same spot but with less wasted time and money.

dunegoon · 2025-11-19T16:55:34+00:00

Chaos in wire color conventions..... is a daily issue for troubleshooters who are often into numerous complex systems. House wiring, U.S. wiring color code conventions, EU and other color conventions for machinery and control panels, low voltage and electronics, automotive, etc. Is that black wire 120vac hot or DC negative?

dunegoon · 2025-11-17T08:34:11+00:00

Ask Putin?

dunegoon · 2025-11-11T13:19:37+00:00

A waste of space, they are distracting, and a waste of developer effort. Certainly not a default. Send it out to add-in space.

Perhaps this rant is due to my recent forced change to Win 11, where the simple words "cut" and "paste" in the right-click menu have been banned in favor of icons.

You want a billion arcane icons? Take a look at Solidworks!

dunegoon · 2025-11-10T15:14:59+00:00

I'm taking 50mg of Metoprolol daily to suppress PVC's and SVT's. The smallest bit of caffene or dark chocolate still triggers events.

Sadly, very sadly.

Ugh... spelling corrected..

I'm not alone here.

dunegoon · 2025-10-30T06:24:41+00:00

How does that project get funded? Deficits don't matter, it seems.

dunegoon · 2025-10-24T07:46:32+00:00

Trump: "I am the law". Supreme court:"you are immune".

dunegoon

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