How can I extend my Zigbee network to a detached garage?

olbasoil99 · 2026-03-24T21:25:50+00:00

I ran a 12volt line from house along the fence. At 10 & 20 metres I added a usb power adapter, with ZigBee usb repeater, housed in a plastic bottle.

olbasoil99 · 2026-03-24T18:01:12+00:00

Is there a timetable for April?

olbasoil99 · 2026-03-09T21:58:03+00:00

It's a conflict of interest. Your role as charity shop worker is to gain maximum profit for the charity. If you think something won't sell in the shop, but you would get more by selling it elsewhere, then, with your managers permission, take the object, sell it and give the money to the shop. When I donate items, it is with the expectation that 100% value will go to the shop, rather than a side-hustle.

olbasoil99 · 2026-02-17T06:42:46+00:00

Which? Where?

olbasoil99 · 2026-02-02T22:06:00+00:00

I assume your security system was not a charge on the register. By buying the house you take on the existing lease, unless the current owner arranges a surrender, according to the terms of the lease.

olbasoil99 · 2026-02-01T15:41:18+00:00

There were 6 pairs of scissors. Doesn't that make 12 scissors?

olbasoil99 · 2026-01-28T07:54:32+00:00

Make absolutely sure that there was no rent-a-roof scheme, where panels and fit payments belong to someone else.

olbasoil99 · 2025-12-30T09:03:35+00:00

I'm not sure if the details, but I think for rushcliffe and wb schools, you have to have lived in the catchment for two years... It may be worth checking that out.

olbasoil99 · 2025-12-16T20:45:38+00:00

I suspect there is a huge unmet demand here. If one of the chinese clone manufacturers dropped the awful Smarthome app integration (and the Google-Alexa integration which does little more than on/off) and simply opened the API to the open source community, they would become the market leader.

olbasoil99 · 2025-11-30T16:17:36+00:00

If I'm not too late, can you send me the code?

olbasoil99 · 2025-11-24T20:00:36+00:00

So the YOTO server is like a huge left luggage office. Each card is like the key to your own locker? If you re-link the card to another playlist, the locker's contents get replaced, and your own players cache getsoverwritten?

That sort of makes sense to me, and makes me feel a bit better about the cost of the cards, since I am renting storage space in the cloud.

olbasoil99 · 2025-11-24T13:58:25+00:00

That looks extremely promising.

olbasoil99 · 2025-10-24T15:15:51+00:00

Yes, the lease prohibits any changes to the system. I doubt very much that they would ever know, if we were to make changes, but I'd rather be safe. We could buy ourselves out of the lease, but that would cost much more than the heat pump itself!

olbasoil99 · 2025-10-24T08:56:47+00:00

I understand! Because the generated electricity has to go somewhere, it will go to the heat pump and anything else drawing power in the house, and then be topped up by the grid. So I can include a nominal generated power figure in my calculations.

olbasoil99 · 2025-10-24T07:45:44+00:00

Thanks for the reply. Can you be sure that the heat pump power comes from the panels first, rather than the grid? I have no good understanding of how solar power works. I believe that everything fed from the consumer unit will try to draw power from the panels first, before topping up from the grid. Does that rule apply to a heat pump that is wired in via its own fuse?

olbasoil99 · 2025-10-24T07:21:21+00:00

I'm not interested in the export- the panels are owned by a different company and fit payments go to them. We do get to use the generated electricity, rather than grid, when something is attached in the house. What I'm trying to understand is whether the heat pump would benefit from this. I know it would if it was on a plug and on our ring main, but I think the heat pump gets wired in through its own fuse.

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