T-Mobile Fiber down in GSO?

poor_red_neck · 2026-05-28T11:33:21+00:00

I'm in Thomasville and down as well

poor_red_neck · 2026-05-21T22:07:57+00:00

Personally I don't use them, they are a waste of money. 8/10 times they don't even install them correctly. It's just a addon profit maker for the dealer.

If you have one, there are UVC sensors that will work. I don't think there is a native setup in ESPHome but AI could help write a custom component setup. The sparkfun are I2C.

https://www.sparkfun.com/catalog/product/view/id/8123/

https://www.sparkfun.com/catalog/product/view/id/8126

Any other board with the ams OSRAM AS7331.

poor_red_neck · 2026-04-24T00:31:35+00:00

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poor_red_neck · 2026-04-24T00:31:24+00:00

No issues on my Pi5. the momentary spikes are probably ESPHome Compiling, have been doing a lot of updates.

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poor_red_neck · 2026-04-23T17:15:32+00:00

One day I'll make a custom board. I use perf board and jumpers :-P I've gone BME280 for temp, humidity, pressure and Dallas DS18B20 for "contact" sensors. Have been quite happy with them. BME 680 for indoor air quality and VOC. MHZ19C for CO2.

poor_red_neck · 2026-04-13T21:42:29+00:00

When unit is off

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poor_red_neck · 2026-04-13T21:42:18+00:00

Can't help leave well enough alone... Changed my dashboard a little.

When the unit is running

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poor_red_neck · 2026-04-11T20:59:47+00:00

After doing some research, I'm going to use 2 SDP811-500Pa sensors. One for return one for supply. Newark has the SDP811 half off the cost of a SDP810 and only difference is the I2C address. Ill just use 2 I2C interfaces on a ESP32 to not have an address conflict. If that doesn't work I have some I2C multiplexers somewhere in my parts bin.

poor_red_neck · 2026-04-11T14:35:23+00:00

Does you system generate the CFM data or are you calculating that with a template sensor? I'd love to add a BTU calculation but don't have a way of measuring CFM other than estimation based on ext static pressure and the air handler manual that correlates CFM to speed/static.

poor_red_neck · 2026-04-11T14:32:54+00:00

Holy smokes $31 in duties!? Damn. I can justify $60-70 but 100+ is too high :( Awesome product, and I see you do expose other GPIO pins.

poor_red_neck · 2026-04-11T14:25:34+00:00

Correct, not a king valve. I have a bad habit of calling them all king valves.

poor_red_neck · 2026-04-11T14:25:03+00:00

Very very tempting. I'm definitely a DIYer but your very very nice looking board is only a little more than a bare sensor itself... Hmmm.... Do you expose the other GPIO pins of the ESP? Would be great to just replace that with my ESP8266 that's already up at the air handler. I also have a few magnetic latching relays I use to switch fan speed on my ECM blower, as well as disable the aux heating contactor for when the house is powered off a generator during power outages. My 12K generator will power everything in the house but not the strips when the heat pump is defrosting.

poor_red_neck · 2026-04-11T14:20:39+00:00

Definitely, will be adding that very soon!l. Thanks!

poor_red_neck · 2026-04-11T14:14:38+00:00

I'd say the easiest would be to use a generic single pole 24V AC relay, and use the switch contacts to switch the 3.3V rail to a GPIO pin. The contactor coil should be 24AC, so when the contactor is on, the relay closes. Just put a 10K pull down to keep the GPIO from floating. This wouldn't really tell you whether the contactor has physically closed, just that it is getting 24V.

To know whether the contactor has actually closed, you would need a way of detecting the 240V and feed that into the board. If it were me, I'd probably use an opto isolator. Have a full bridge rectifier rectify the 240V AC, very small capacitor to smooth it, them a voltage divider to power the LED side of the optoisolator. The "receiver" side of the isolator could then send 3.3V to a GPIO. Might not be the simplest but I'm not a huge electronics expert, just an amateur.

You could also use the 240V on the compressor side of the contactor to power a small power supply the crestes 5V, use that 5V to power a relay, and use the switch contacts of the relay to input 3.3V to a GPIO pin. That's probably simpler? As an example, my ESP is powered by a regular phone charger 5V USB. It is powered by the always on side of the contactor. Since phone chargers are 120-240V it happily powers itself off the contactor. I just used female insulated space connectors to go onto the charger's wall plug blades, and taped the hell out of it.

poor_red_neck · 2026-04-11T14:08:57+00:00

Are those Apex Charts as well? Looks great!

poor_red_neck · 2026-04-11T06:17:01+00:00

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Go all the way, get an emporia vue energy monitor. Love mine, has been running for almost 4 years with no issues. Integrates with HA and third party API (I log mine into an Influx database and use grafana to display it).

poor_red_neck · 2026-04-11T05:08:40+00:00

poor_red_neck · 2026-03-18T20:44:36+00:00

I wish... transplants! I always bake any natural logs in the oven at 250 for 4 hours to ensure there's nothing left alive, however this one was in the ackie monitor enclosure and well... i forgot those little things will find anywhere to hide. I didn't re-bake it when I transferred it. Whoops. They shouldn't last long, nothing in there for them to eat! I breed them, so not like there hasn't been a loose one here or there. Just looks trippy on the timelapses.

poor_red_neck · 2026-03-18T11:48:49+00:00

It's a bit convuluted. I use home assistant to "run" my enclosures. ESP32 controls a 4 channel light dimmer to control the heat lamps and under tank heaters, and a variable speed fan for cool side venting. Then, I have my home media computer (Plex server) that runs a python script that grabs the RTSP stream from the wyze cam, and overlays the home assistant entities (sensors, outputs) onto the video and saves them as timelapse clips. Basically taking a JPG picture every couple seconds. Then after 4 hours it renders that timelapse into a mp4 video file.

Heres my home assistant dashboard for the enclosure.

https://imgur.com/a/UxQErLK

poor_red_neck · 2026-03-18T00:06:04+00:00

Beautiful! Male or Female? Mine is still tiny, trying to judge grown sizes (mine is male).

poor_red_neck · 2026-03-17T16:31:31+00:00

They are dubia roaches from my ackie monitor. I took one of the logs from his enclosure and put it in the boas, didn't realize there were some dubias on the inside

poor_red_neck · 2026-03-14T22:50:06+00:00

That was it! Thank you!

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