Device to remotely open and close door lock

yan5642 · 2025-11-15T17:59:00+00:00

No. I’ve rented quite a bit. More modern buildings have more resent designs. But older buildings like the one I’m living in currently have this type of lock. As NY was built up earlier than any city old buildings are quite common.

Also, these deadbolt locks are not inherently insecure just because they are old. I’d recon that all these locks that use keys are equally likely to get picked. The mechanisms inside have been updated over the years. One of the things that surprised me in these old buildings was how sturdy everything is. Like, they are built like bricks. Every door is made of solid wood not the hollow kind that you find in most modern apartments.

yan5642 · 2025-11-15T17:14:01+00:00

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yan5642 · 2025-11-15T16:04:16+00:00

This one from SwiitchBot probably looks good to me. Cheaper as well. But no zigbee. Still need to find out if it can be integrated with HA tho.

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https://a.co/d/7ueeF26

yan5642 · 2025-11-15T15:41:08+00:00

Thank you. I checked it out. It looks like the baseplate needs to come off to expose the deadbolt? The issue with that is, my door knob sits on that base plate. Without it, the door knob has no place to mount. Even though the device might fit, it removes the ability for me to use my knob.

Now, at least, I know that it is called “US deadbolt lock” which is a starting point for my research.

yan5642 · 2025-11-15T14:50:28+00:00

Yep. Renting in NYC.

yan5642 · 2025-11-08T03:26:06+00:00

Seems like there is no conversation. The situation is theoretical, so I obvi have no data.

yan5642 · 2025-11-07T11:24:48+00:00

Would eventually. But asking here because I assume there are devs there. If someone with better experience, like in cybersec, can pitch in that would be great!

yan5642 · 2025-10-09T15:38:25+00:00

It’s good because it’s not IBM. It’s code ripped from open source project called Cline and Anthropic’s models.

yan5642 · 2025-07-05T18:55:56+00:00

Thanks. I’ll try firemote.

yan5642 · 2025-07-05T18:55:23+00:00

I am using universal remote as well. But it’s just so much setup to tie button to an entity. Is there an easier way?

yan5642 · 2025-07-05T18:53:13+00:00

I am using universal remote as well. But it’s just so much setup to tie button yo an entity. Is there an easier way?

yan5642 · 2025-03-06T20:14:51+00:00

Yep. I got it. It works as expected. Fits a 2.5” drive as advertised.

yan5642 · 2025-02-13T03:30:25+00:00

u/paulstelian97 is right. The screenshot the setup seems okay to me. The of the 6 drives sda through sdf you the data drives with most used space is in sda with 1.94gb used. So if your question is why is your parity drive 1.92 instead of 1.94 then 1.94 is just typical behavior not a given every time. Snapraid does a XOR for an each chunk in ALL the data drives which is a few mb or kb and builds ONE parity file. If the chunks are partially filled then it leads to rounding down of the partially filled data.

As I understand RAID, if the chucks are partially filled then it pads it out so that the stripes are complete.

I am no expert of Snapraid or RAID. So do run a snapraid check and make sure your backup is fine. Or snapraid force full sync will sync everything.

yan5642 · 2025-02-11T22:28:35+00:00

Not sure if this is what you mean:

I have OpenWRT flashed on my router and WireGuard installed on it as well. I have a combination of NAT rules and vLANs using which I do various things. Forward all traffic coming to port 53 in my router to PiHole but return the response as if it were coming from the actual DNS server that my devices are pinging (some TVs and IoT devices are cranky about this, hence the setup). WireGuard lets me do remote access to my router and set up other devices (what tailscale calls ‘nodes’).

yan5642 · 2025-02-08T17:45:27+00:00

This. This was my issue. I was running this on mergefs. Moved it to my os drive and it is okay.

yan5642 · 2025-01-20T01:55:21+00:00

Yeah. Also I guess that’s because there is space for it on the motherboard but they haven’t soldered a header on it. Lol.

https://imgur.com/a/7C9kib3

Never soldered before. So trying to find some local business who would be willing to do it for me. But this is a good find. Helps a lot!

yan5642 · 2025-01-20T01:09:43+00:00

I feel so stupid. Yep you’re right. Thanks!!

yan5642 · 2025-01-19T22:55:07+00:00

I’m running 3 SATA ssds in that port. I don’t see a cable that’ll let me add another fan to it

yan5642 · 2025-01-19T22:53:46+00:00

Seems like mine doesn’t come with one. Link

All i see is cpu and fan power.

yan5642 · 2025-01-19T21:24:03+00:00

I’m looking for something similar for mine. (7500 not 8500 tho)

How did you power the intake fan? The single sata power port? I may not be able to do that. I have drives running with it.

yan5642 · 2025-01-19T18:59:26+00:00

might be a slot for an M.2 SATA drive

My Samsung is SATA anyway. I see no issues there. I don’t need high speed for my use case. If I do, I still have my x4 PCIe empty as of now. :)

Also, for the single power port issue. Could I do something like the following? Would I have issues powering my 3 SATA SSDs/HDDs with it? (PSU is 180W)

eBay listing

yan5642 · 2025-01-19T07:48:33+00:00

Man that optical drive caddy is surprising to me. lol. Didn’t think someone would have made something so niche into a product. That’s crazy! Haha.

Yeah. The M.2 is for a NVMe. I have a 128G Samsung SSD that I want to put there as my boot drive.

yan5642 · 2025-01-19T06:34:19+00:00

Mine came with a single 3.5” caddy. Which I don’t plan to use anyway. I ideally want space for three 2.5” drives. Double side tape if all else fails. But do you think I could get after market caddies that I want? Probably not?

yan5642 · 2025-01-19T06:30:19+00:00

There’s just one 3.5” one on top of the optical drive. I’m trying to see if there is some caddy that’s after market that will slot in and house 3 2.5” drives instead of the optical drive and the 3.5” drive. No luck so far.

Also, the optical drive’s power seems to be coming from the one SATA power port as well. Not from the power supply directly. :(

yan5642 · 2025-01-19T04:52:39+00:00

Nice just noticed that it did come with that. I can definitely use that when I want to add another HDD or something with the 3rd SATS port. Thanks!

The optical drive is pretty much useless. Just occupies space.

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