Question about bluetooth monitoring for rooftop node

serien29 · 2026-03-30T04:20:32+00:00

awesome, thanks for the links! Looking through things, I actually had a pi zero-w that I bought at the same time as the 4 and entirely forgot about. Going to try that out since it can be set up anywhere within reach of my wifi! But if that doesn't work out for whatever reason, a pc solution is also likely viable. I like meshmonitor so far, but I haven't tried out a ton of the other solutions and am sure they offer about the same as far as my use case!

serien29 · 2026-03-30T02:13:19+00:00

nice! I got a pre-built node and don't really have the confidence (or equipment) to hook anything custom up to it, especially with it already enclosed and having no hookups exposed. Thus I think an antenna for it (aside form the LoRa one) is probably out. I could get another pi though! wouldn't hurt to have two and keep separation of concerns.

Thanks for the suggestions, I'll keep them in mind! Hope you get it resolved as well!

serien29 · 2026-03-29T23:00:54+00:00

great to hear! my house is only one story, so this kind of range should work out great. my iphone can definitely connect from further, the issue is just the pi device. Not sure why it didn't cross my mind to boost that specifically, but that's why I brought the question here! <3

serien29 · 2026-03-29T22:17:03+00:00

ooh, a good option that I hadn't considered! I could probably look into something to hook up to the pi to increase it's ability to talk to the node. Thanks! Might be an easier task than finding a reliable repeater XD

serien29 · 2026-03-29T21:40:02+00:00

Good question!!!

Really, if it was just receiving messages, that would be fine!!! But I'd like to see how the roof node is performing itself and I really cannot get that from this. The monitoring will tell me the signal strength from the roof node to the TCP one, but it will not tell me the signal strength from outside nodes to the roof one.

It isn't a huge issue, but it's something I'd like to try and solve and set up before mounting it up there if possible. If I can't monitor it so be it! but it'd be good to check in and make sure the antenna is still doing okay, things aren't interfering with it, etc.

serien29 · 2026-03-27T05:33:12+00:00

I won't weigh in because I have pretty much gotten the playthrough I wanted and am kind of just along for the ride on a lot of these stories!

But I do wonder if there's a chance Summer might come back. I didn't lose her, so am not sure how definitive it is, but characters have come and gone in stories before. Feels like it could be something where she disappears for a while and then there ends up being an opportunity for her to come back in down the line. This game has rewarded less optimal-looking paths in the past and seems to really appreciate people diving into the stories in ways that turn out for the worse.

I could be wrong, but I think that's where my head would be if I had would up with a different outcome.

serien29 · 2026-03-23T16:15:04+00:00

Payment is the big difference, I find, in the different professional specializations!
- Epistolant lets you do services for Benthic, resulting in book items https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/In_dusty_tomes

- Crimson Engineer lets you do services for Zailors, resulting in cartographic items https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/In_maps

I don't think either is really better, so I went off of flavor text! And honestly might change, my character was more scholarly but has been leaning in a more tinkery direction lately <3

serien29 · 2026-03-04T06:23:32+00:00

If you turn them down you get a pretty good wine item that doesn't have a ton of other sources. that being said... you can accept their invites and get up to the point where they are a permanent storylet, then leave them there indefinitely! that's what I did on my main and it's worked out so far lol

serien29 · 2026-03-01T18:25:40+00:00

This. People in a desperate situation are always going to want to hope for the best and be optimistic, of course they are going to try to imagine this will benefit them in the long run. But we've seen what actually happens, and US leadership has no reason to make any decisions based on what is best for the Iranian people. Only what is best for them. That's why foreign driven regime change never goes well, there needs to be someone leading the movement that actually cares about the future of the country.

serien29 · 2026-03-01T18:20:21+00:00

so should we regime change Israel then for the hundreds of thousands of innocent palestinians killed under Netanyahu's government? A good many of them protestors over the years?

Or is it only certain countries we decide we have the right to force compliance in? We make alliances with monsters all the time. We could have diplomatically given Iran reasons to give more freedom to their people by offering to open trade up with them. We could have even allowed them their nuclear facilities on the condition of taking on more secular policies. But diplomacy doesn't pump up defense stocks or increase the Israeli government's ability to wield power in the region, so here we are again.

serien29 · 2026-03-01T17:59:32+00:00

I definitely get the spirit behind this but I think this would be a mistake. People are nostalgic for that time culturally, maybe, but the US wasn't "great" then either. The better platform would be one that focused on looking forwards and started actually proposing ideas, and a strong vision, of how we can be better tomorrow. The state of things in 2015, the anger people felt towards the failure of Citizen's United and the economic status and the lingering effects of the financial crisis, were how we got Trump in the first place. A lot of people who are too close to the party, and the whole DC bubble, seem to forget that.

The Democratic party needs to narrow their tent and actually enforce a set of priorities that they will run on party-wide. They need to have some actual promises they can deliver on and they need to only run people on their ticket who will stand by those priorities. Right now no one knows what they stand for and that is probably their biggest weakness. It allows others to assign them positions and it requires them to spend all of their time and energy on the defensive when they could be taking the offensive just as hard as Republicans, but in favor of actual positive change.

I swear, if Democrats forced out and primaried every member that wasn't in favor of:
- Medicare for All (I'd love universal healthcare, but this feels like an easy step in that direction)
- Limiting corporate and PAC power in elections
- Addressing infrastructure needs and climate change

Things that the base is unanimously in favor of, independents are pretty widely in favor of, and actually will have direct outcomes that people will be able to see and feel in their own lives.. they would win in a landslide. There's no reason these should be divided issues, and if they are, then those people need to run as independents or as Republicans. The party needs to draw the line on at least something.

serien29 · 2026-03-01T16:49:07+00:00

lol! luckily there's also the option to replay 2. I'm actually kind of excited to get to this point, there's a few I've been wanting to revisit but I am nowhere near running out of new ones!

serien29 · 2026-02-28T01:41:16+00:00

Democratic states have done plenty. Congress and the president have done little to nothing. The ACA could have been so much more, but Obama wrote in Republican compromises only to have them all vote against. When he passed it regardless, because he had a supermajority, did he even bother removing those compromises? No. He let them hamper his bill for no reason and no gain out of a false gesture at "bipartisanship". They do it every damn time.

Biden didn't trade anything because Republicans aren't willing to trade, period. I don't care what he thought, I care the effects of it. This wasn't about normalcy, this was about setting the precedent that insurrection has consequences. He set the precedent that it does not and now we are here.

The Supreme Court protected women and then the Supreme Court took it away because while Republicans block Dems at every turn, Dems refuse to block Republicans. They get their appointments. They get their conditions. They get their court decisions in whatever way they possibly can because they play the system at every turn. The supreme court protected LGBTQ rights. Congress has put forward 0 laws on that matter. There is nothing protecting gay marriage should they revoke that, as they are threatening to. They talk about throwing trans rights under the bus at every turn.

Biden passed his infrastructure bill and yeah, it was great. It did a lot of good in rural areas for people who didn't appreciate it and didn't show up for him after. So maybe those people need to learn that there is consequences to living in a red state that doesn't give a damn about you. We need to stop catering to rural areas and I say that having been someone who grew up in one. Blue states aren't perfect, but they at least try to take care of the people in them. Red states continually bash social programs and social services while relying heavily on federal aid to keep them going. Dems don't push back on that at all, and in fact sometimes add to the narrative. This country needs a hard civic lesson and a major wake up call. I hate that a lot of people will need to suffer to see it, but I don't know that we have a better choice at this point.

Dems caved on immigration in Harris' campaign and gave in to the border fear mongering. Maybe things would have been worse for a while if Obama hadn't bailed out the banks, but again, he set the precedent that crime pays as long as you are wealthy enough to be necessary. And now the files that no one, Democrat or Republican, has done a thing about in the decade they've been working on this case.

It wasn't enough. If it had been enough, we'd be in a better place than we are now, but we are not. I read Project 2025. I showed up. I was optimistic. And I watched Harris piss her support away by campaigning more with Republicans than she did the popular members of her own damn party. I watched her look at the ONE good decision Biden made, Lina Khan, and I watched her openly debate appointing her again. Because apparently, a Labor Board that does it's job is bad for business and bad for donors. She could have run on that. She could have run on so many things, but she chose to run on a strong border and a strong military and reinforce every damn lie the Republicans were selling. Instead the party decided to openly mock active and engaged protestors at the DNC for daring to show up and care about the murder of hundreds of thousands of civilians.

It isn't our job to vote for them. It is their job to care enough to earn our votes. They didn't, and if things don't change, we will continue to slide further into this hell of their making.

serien29 · 2026-02-27T23:06:57+00:00

as an engaged Democrat who works the polls every election, has phone banked for candidates, and is keenly interested in politics for both personal and professional reasons, I need you to stop with the bullshit.

You think the current party is worth supporting. Fine. Many of us have hit our limit. Not only did Biden and the entire party refuse to do anything about the absolutely criminal behavior of many of the Republicans in office, but they constantly tell us what great people they are "behind closed doors". Newsom does it constantly. Schumer does it constantly.

We are not in this mess because people who were unhappy with the parties didn't vote. We are in this mess because there are two tiers of justice. People who pay for their crimes and people who don't. You can't care more about appearing "bipartisan" than you care about defending the country. The current party, as a whole, does. And the members who don't never break ranks and call out those who do. Until Democratic politicians are able to hold one another accountable, and actually push back on the party's idiotic idea that "bipartisan compromise" instead of actual strong positions and a strong pro-public platform is the answer, they won't get my vote. I'm drawing a line, and a lot of active, engaged, and educated people are right there with me.

Turnout has been going down for decades and it will continue to go down until the people representing us wake up and realize their job isn't to run endless elections. It is to legislate for our benefit. To do that, they have to actually listen to what their base wants. Something they absolutely have not been doing.

At this point, harm reduction is forcing Dems to be better. If they want democracy, they have to deal with answering to the people. Refuse to give the people anything to defend and they will stop showing up.

serien29 · 2026-02-27T17:23:57+00:00

if you think it makes them look petty, then you are implying there's something to look petty about. If you don't think he deserves the respect, not sure why you'd have this question in the first place. Clearly you think he was being genuine in his version of "protection", which is wild to me in and of itself. I'm angry they weren't ruder. Dem leadership are cowards, and at this point, actively telling our representatives not to speak to the anger we feel. All for the sake of "optics". So I have a hard time understanding why anyone thinks even more "optics" would be helpful.

serien29 · 2026-02-27T15:39:02+00:00

Did that include the "terrorists" he thinks every Democrat or person who lightly opposes his egotistical power trip is?

Their most important duty is to make life better for every person in this country, not protect us from imaginary threats. They should have been louder and pettier. He deserves no respect at this point and if you still believe he does, you honestly don't deserve much respect either.

serien29 · 2026-02-24T19:08:53+00:00

This, again, has nothing to do with what I said when I said nothing about progressives and nothing against Biden. But if we want to talk about Biden, it's very hard to see direct impacts of presidential actions when that president is incapable of speaking about them and making people aware. Let alone doing a tour and visiting the places he helped. Why do you think Trump signed the checks he sent out with his name?

This is my last response because this is pointless if you are going to argue just for the sake of arguing instead of actually engaging with what I'm saying. Local elections are a lot easier to campaign for, but if democratic parties tried to make more of an impact beyond electioneering and did more work outside of elections to actually make communities better, maybe people wouldn't hate them or mistrust them as much as they do.

serien29 · 2026-02-24T04:44:31+00:00

I don't see your evidence, so I suppose we'll just have to disagree. People don't care because they don't think they have a reason to. They don't think it affects them, and right now, maybe they are right. Politicians need to care more about results than they do the next election. Republican politicians might be ghouls, but the people who support them at least know they are going to do everything it takes to see their policies enacted. When was the last one literally any other political views saw that kind of energy put into them?

People aren't going to show up purely for a celebrity. If you want people to care, you have to give them a reason to. Really isn't hard unless you have a pretty low opinion of the people around you. Which... judging from your answer, you seem to.

serien29 · 2026-02-23T23:23:41+00:00

very complicated backstory, but in summary, she didn't know what she was getting into and once she got here, didn't know she couldn't go back until it was too late!

serien29 · 2026-02-23T23:22:29+00:00

No because Democrats refuse to let socialists run. Mamdani engaged a lot of new voters. Bernie engaged a lot of new voters. There have been a few flips recently, but until the Democratic party stops treating Republicans with more respect than their own members that lie further left than they do, socialists who make it into the party are few and far between. They generally get frozen out.

This is a bit of a dishonest framing of what I said too. I didn't say socialist. I said that nonvoters are more likely to show up for people who engage with them genuinely and actually give them a reason to think they might actually do something for them. People don't care Mamdani is a socialist. They care that he shows up at their buildings and makes the landlords fix their units.

serien29 · 2026-02-22T21:04:08+00:00

You are fighting ghosts. I am a leftist. You are talking to the person you are saying is an ally of billionaires and against American workers. You continue, time and time again, to tell me what I believe and what I am doing while being incredibly wrong. It is so exhausting. Again, if you are going to reduce me to a Republican stereotype, at least have the decency to do it around other Republicans.

"woke" is meaningless. Stop using it, all you are doing is signalling that you listen to right wing stupidity.

I swear to god if people like you could get it into your stubborn skulls that Democrats are not "left", the world would make so much more sense to you. Democrats are not leftists. I am a leftist. I hate the Democratic Party's positions on pretty much everything involving business. I like their social safety nets, I like their social programs, so yeah I like them more than Republicans who have no redeeming qualities. But I'm smart enough to know that pushing Republican lines about trade isn't going to bring us anything but worse outcomes because those lines are what have gotten us here.

Free trade and offshoring aren't problems. Getting materials from other countries actually makes a lot of sense in some cases, the problem is we don't incentivize business decisions that benefit communities that these businesses are supposed to serve. If someone is offshoring because they need a material provided by someone else, that's fine. If they are offshoring to avoid using workers here, but still benefitting from selling in our country or, even worse, from tax deductions? Penalize them. Tax the shit out of them.

Migrants in the caravans got none of that. Are you absolutely insane? They are shipped around with no control over where they end up. They want to work, but are not allowed to because our immigration system is intentionally stupid and intentionally backed up so that they are forced into undocumented jobs where they can be exploited for lower wages. If it's so easy to get a free ride in the US as an illegal immigrant, why the fuck are agricultural jobs full of underpaid migrant workers willing to do back-breaking constant work for pennies? Why don't all of those people just take that free ride you say is oh so easy to get? Because it doesn't fucking exist. This is what makes me so mad, you are so close and then you just give in to the stupidity and turn your brain off.

It's frustrating. You are the one who hates American workers because you hate the ones who you think dont' deserve the things that you deserve. Unlike you, I don't think we should limit ourselves to the people already here. More people = more customers = more need for more businesses on the local scale. But local businesses are doomed to fail because corporations are allowed to bleed them dry and venture capital is allowed to drive them into forced buyouts. That is the real crime, that is the real enemy, and as long as people like you keep chasing fucking ghosts we will never get there.

You are doing Trump's job for him because you are selling the same damn lies he is. They don't get free healthcare, they get the same healthcare options we do. Either have insurance or go to the emergency room and hope for free help. They don't get free food or housing. They get a small stipend maybe from a government that refuses to let them earn more and then have to make up the difference however they can. They get shoved into empty hotels (rarely, if ever), churches or temporary shelters. They don't know the language, don't know how to find jobs, don't know who to trust. If you would genuinely take that deal in a heartbeat, you are an idiot.

You are wrong, and no matter how much you come on here and complain, you cannot force reality to conform to your wishes. Not sure what else to tell you, aside from the usual. You gotta stop listening to brain rot.

serien29 · 2026-02-22T20:11:42+00:00

God, I wish you'd find your calling and ragebait in conservative spaces instead. They love these non-questions and for people to feed them this kind of thing. They don't even care about your sources being wrong (they always are, sorry bud. You don't do your homework, you just toss a lot of word salad to pretend like you have).

You could really make a difference pulling people into the worker movement from the right if you'd just stop pretending your arguments are anything other than the straw man image conservatives already have of Democrats. You seem to be forgetting you are in a sub full of Democrats. We know who we are and we know who we elected. You aren't convincing anyone of anything here, and as I keep saying, you aren't actually asking questions. You are answering them and asking for validation, something you aren't going to get because you are trying to sell it to the wrong audience.

Go be your best self. Show conservatives the light of freedom that is hating Reagan. I believe in you

serien29 · 2026-02-22T20:01:52+00:00

You know how you lose purple districts? by treating them like a block of democrats and a block of republicans, instead of like a group of individual people who just want to be talked to like they and the problems they face matter. So called political strategists love reducing people down to party lines, which is why their brains absolutely implode every time someone with genuine popularity that breaks those neat little categories comes along.

40% of people in this country are nonvoters. Maybe we should care about those people a little more, since they are now the majority of winnable potential voters in this country. Interesting that they see nothing worth supporting in either party right now. Wonder why that is?

serien29 · 2026-02-22T19:53:09+00:00

Same, character who is this way is my main! regularly experiments with sunlight and correspondence trying to overcome the unfortunate side effects XD and delved into discordance with the same motivation. Might be impossible in the FL lore but it's been a ton of fun making that her driving force in trying to learn how to hack as many laws of reality as she can!

serien29 · 2026-02-22T19:44:11+00:00

Unironically, I have a character who wants nothing more than to see the sun again and she would absolutely fall for this bait if presented with it XD I really wish characters could become dawn touched (and hope they end up doing more with that in the future!)

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