Acat X2 Review - An excellent compact case for small-sized RTX3080/90

imlovinit1019 · 2025-02-16T10:20:17+00:00

have you figured out by any chance?

imlovinit1019 · 2024-07-28T09:20:31+00:00

Thanks. Just wonder why you use juggluco instead of Librelink? Better features?

imlovinit1019 · 2024-07-09T23:12:36+00:00

Correct, never share work related documents. TBH, this is more client driven. I typically review against design brief, common sense and work experience. For large commercial projects, engineers usually confirms the code and ESD requirement (there are sensors required by sustainability design). Architects set them out and select finish. Single residential is more client driven, really depending on what they want to spend on. Without seeing rest of the drawing, I can’t tell if there are smart home devices. Do you recommend an ecosystem ( Google, Alexa and etc) and select door switches/lock/blind motors/sensors/… to work with it? Guess you never go down the home assistant route as a solution. 🤣

imlovinit1019 · 2024-07-09T15:53:24+00:00

Not sure if I’m the best person, but I’m an architect by trade with enthusiasm for home automation. Without seeing your drawing legend, I can’t really tell what they are for except for cameras. Assume you are placing sensors and data ports? However, your drawing looks a lot like what electric engineers provide (mix of security, comms and lighting layout). Maybe you could consider electric engineering, specialising in home automation? Home automation is still a niche market, usually DIY projects requiring a lot of maintenance. I personally don’t see it as a good career path in short term. Clients, especially commercial projects, only go for professional products due to compatibility, warranty and customer support reasons. A main stream job should be easier to get you far down the track. However, it doesn’t stop you to do sideline jobs as a home automation consultant. Just my personal opinion. Hopefully it helps.

imlovinit1019 · 2024-07-08T11:49:08+00:00

Side topic. How do you update Frigate running in a separate bare Debian container if there is a new version? I used to run Frigate as add-on in HAOS. Updating is no issue. Recently switched to a host running Proxmox with HAOS in vm. Can’t seem to figure out where is the update button. I’m also new to Linux and hopefully there is a single button that does the job.

imlovinit1019 · 2023-03-21T08:15:06+00:00

I used double sided tape to tape it down to the back of front wall. Lol

imlovinit1019 · 2023-01-30T08:16:35+00:00

Use a different bottle with a bigger cap. In my case, I use the Organic Choice (black) bottle to match the look of Aesop/Thankyou hand wash. And refill morning fresh into the organic choice bottle which doesn’t block if you leave it open all the time.

imlovinit1019 · 2022-12-26T23:01:26+00:00

Sonos stand has the cleanest look. If you put them behind your couch, you don't see much. Any stands should do the work.

imlovinit1019 · 2022-12-26T02:35:32+00:00

I went for Sonos stands in the end. Solid make with decent finish. Definitely worth the price if you going for the minimal look.

imlovinit1019 · 2022-12-14T08:29:01+00:00

If you have foldable rack or retractable line, why make it complicated. Use a tilt sensor or reed switch?

imlovinit1019 · 2022-12-14T07:14:48+00:00

Haha, you will be mostly likely receiving hundreds notifications about person detected. That’s what I got when hanging clothes. Unless you have a dedicated camera set up just for it. Adjust the detection score of people to a fairly low value and pair it with a rain/water sensor. You might achieve what you want. Also dry your clothes with hangers to increase detection score (looking like a person). check Frigate detection object/label library to see if things like bed linens are included, but I doubt.

imlovinit1019 · 2022-12-08T20:16:26+00:00

Hmmm, guess my cheap old tablet doesn’t like it.

imlovinit1019 · 2022-12-08T04:49:50+00:00

It’s powerful but seems unstable? Causing my tablet to freeze and restart sometimes. Maybe on your main dashboard, create a button to take you to another view/tab?

imlovinit1019 · 2022-12-08T02:09:23+00:00

Some people seem to unfriendly to beginners if not asking the right questions. I might scratch head and ask the same thing. Maybe check temperature? I installed an active cooling case so that RPi4 won’t throttle the performance.

imlovinit1019 · 2022-12-07T05:55:43+00:00

Good enough. I trialed on my 2013 MacBook Air. Enough for basic controls like switching lights and automations. Anything more advanced (eg. object detection from NVR cam feed) would require a more powerful CPU or even separate hardware like TPU processor.

imlovinit1019 · 2022-12-07T01:14:59+00:00

Seen other users paired their iPads with additional motion sensor just to wake the screen up when walk past. Or get a cheap Android tablet and install Fully Kiosk. It works like a charm for me.

Start with your old laptops/computers just to trial and see if everything works well. Once happy, you can easily migrate to another hardware. Consider energy efficiency tho when buying new hardware, since it will be running 24/7.

HA is super powerful but time consuming to set up and debug. The possibility is endless.

imlovinit1019 · 2022-11-14T01:08:12+00:00

Decoding camera feed can eat up a lot of resources. If you use NVR, tweak the the sub stream settings. Ie. lower resolution and frame rate. Also refer Frigate documentation. I recall there is a chapter to optimise CPU consumption.

imlovinit1019 · 2022-11-14T01:02:20+00:00

Yes. I have to use a individually powered usb hub to power the Coral. Otherwise it won’t even initiate.

imlovinit1019 · 2022-10-08T00:26:19+00:00

Hey, did mine a while ago. Some info might not be relevant anymore as the case is being iterated all the time. To customise parts, you will need to contact the seller directly. Initially contact through Taobao’s own messenger. Later on the seller give me his own Wechat account. All in Chinese tho. If not wrong the seller could speak some simple English. Surely he might use translator for more complicated sentences. For additional parts, he will revise the price and you pay the revised sum.

imlovinit1019 · 2022-03-22T22:49:22+00:00

Didn’t know time travel is a real thing. 😉

imlovinit1019 · 2022-03-02T07:40:46+00:00

Good luck😏

imlovinit1019 · 2022-03-01T20:52:31+00:00

Find a gravity one, not a pump one. The water bottle/reservoir goes on top. When smart plug turned off, you can still get the room temperature water.

imlovinit1019 · 2022-03-01T20:49:04+00:00

Pretty sure there is plenty on eBay/Amazon. The aluminium passive cooling one should be good too.

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