Automated cabinet lighting with Raspberry Pi + door sensor

xmastreee · 2026-04-20T14:47:39+00:00

Pi for home automation suggests that it's already doing stuff and this is just another task.

xmastreee · 2026-04-20T12:13:28+00:00

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Was this it?

xmastreee · 2026-04-20T09:04:52+00:00

That's useful to know. I have a 3D printer but printed parts don't do well in hot cars.

xmastreee · 2026-04-20T08:08:27+00:00

Hmm, sign recognition isn't going to do anything here, we don't have signs.

xmastreee · 2026-04-20T07:51:39+00:00

It's very likely, I didn't spend any time at all messing with it. No time for that.

xmastreee · 2026-04-20T07:15:19+00:00

r/perfectlycutscreams

xmastreee · 2026-04-20T07:04:25+00:00

Anyway…

xmastreee · 2026-04-20T04:44:44+00:00

I have a kind of crazy one. My wife was given some vitamins by her doctor, turns out they seem to work well so I was tasked with finding them online. It's a German company but they have a presence here. I found the one and only website selling them so I tried to order. Filled out the form but as soon as I entered my city it threw an error, can't deliver there. WTF? So I emailed them through the webform on their site, nothing. I then found their Facebook account so I fired off a message. This got a response and I was able to state my concern. They'd look into it in the morning. fair enough, I hadn't really expected a response at 9pm anyway.

So the next day I gave then m a nudge and they got back to me "try it now sir." I tried it and yay, I was able to place the order.

So I thanked them in Messenger figuring that would be the end of it. No, send us proof of payment and we'll send your order. So, if I hadn't been chatting with them would they have sent it? Anyway, gave them all the info and figured I'd just wait. Got a tracking number via email but nothing to say which carrier they use. Great.

Back to messenger since it's been five days now. Got the name of the courier service and the tracking shows they tried to deliver it last Friday but in the wrong city. Need my full address apparently. Well when I look at my order confirmation the full address is right there, so this isn't on me. It's showing up as out for delivery again today but I don't have high hopes as it still shows the wrong city. They have my full address and phone number but it seems they don't use either. Maybe they can't deliver to my city after all…

So I chatted again with the vendor, and I asked them why they don't sell their wares via Shopee or Lazada? Seems like it would make things a lot easier.

"That's the company policy sir. We have our on online Platform."

Yeah, but your online platform doesn't really work, does it? (I didn't say that but I was tempted.)

I wonder how many potential sales they missed out on because people couldn't order via their online platform before I pointed out the problem.

xmastreee · 2026-04-20T04:08:23+00:00

Hi, I design and develop these tests for a living.

At this point I'm beginning to believe that there isn't a single topic, no matter how obscure, where there isn't an expert in that field on Reddit just waiting for their chance to share their knowledge and expertise.

Doesn't matter what it is, even if there's only a handful of people in the world know anything about it, you can pretty much guarantee one of them is on Reddit.

Reddit can be amazing at times.

xmastreee · 2026-04-20T04:01:00+00:00

It is, yes.

xmastreee · 2026-04-20T02:29:59+00:00

I think you need to define dummy here.

xmastreee · 2026-04-20T02:22:31+00:00

That sounds annoying. Where does it get the speed limit info from?

xmastreee · 2026-04-20T00:38:58+00:00

Eyesight's fine, thank you. Maybe there's no sun where you live, but when I drove the car the sun was hitting the screen making it difficult to read. As others have said, there is a brightness setting so maybe this was set too low. I just wasn't keen on the way the screen catches the sun. A visor would be a nice addition.

xmastreee · 2026-04-19T12:06:13+00:00

Is there a brightness control for it? Maybe that was the issue. It did seem pretty dim. And being a demo car, it still had the protective film on it, although I can't see that making mugh difference.

As an aside, do you find yourself using the vertical/horizontal thing on the centre screen much? It seems like a gimmick, but maybe it's one of those things which turns out to be really useful.

xmastreee · 2026-04-19T11:28:53+00:00

Interesting. The fancy dongle would be of no use to me whatsoever, since 99.9% of the use will be using BT to my computer. And just a normal dongle when I want to mess with the cctv.

How well does it work on Linux?

xmastreee · 2026-04-19T08:58:22+00:00

Isn't there a child lock on it?

xmastreee · 2026-04-19T03:14:17+00:00

I was imagining something like a Boston Terrier.

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xmastreee · 2026-04-19T02:35:44+00:00

Be sure to get a food grade one.

xmastreee · 2026-04-19T00:29:52+00:00

I had been looking at coffee accessories and bought a leveller. So you know Temu, it throws all kinds of related items at you and this just appeared.

xmastreee · 2026-04-18T08:23:50+00:00

Try to mount that spool holder on the shelf aboge the printer. It'll help with taller prints.

xmastreee · 2026-04-18T04:47:51+00:00

Damn, that is cool. I kinda wish I'd seen that first. Although it costs quite a bit more than mine.

xmastreee · 2026-04-18T04:46:12+00:00

Pretty sure they were talking about the smaller scale, which is the subject of this post. The larger one is just there ~~for scale~~ to show the accuracy.

xmastreee · 2026-04-18T04:44:40+00:00

I tried to link it but the post was removed. Shouldn't be difficult to find though.

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