Kicking Cable to the Curb
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Its kind of cool though, at 5:45am the lights in the bedroom come on at 30%, then the lights in the hallway and office come on at 40%, then the Espresso machine starts heating. My alarm clock is set for 6am, most of the time the lights wake me up gently before then, and hot coffee is only a grind and tamp away.
If I set the Occupancy status to "away", and motion is detected in any two adjacent rooms in succession, I get an email.
If I say "Alexa, PANIC" then every light in the house comes on and 110db siren goes off.
If I forget to turn the espresso machine off, my house will do it for me after one hour.
Oh, and I can can control any of it from my phone anywhere. Comes in handy if I want to turn the AC before I get home. I havent done any "geo-fencing" yet, but I am considering it. One thermostat setting if I am more than 30 miles from the house, and another setting if I am close to home.
Nope, no cameras. Nothing is wifi, but I do have a lot of ZWave which does have its own security concerns. I have not seen any Zwave exploits yet that opened up the IP network though, but a malacious entity could conceivably control certain devices. Thats the main reason I never automated the doorlocks.
Ever seen that peice brosnan movie about the smart house?
And I was 'bout to ask 'bout setting up a spare 1TB laptop fer streaming to a non-smart TV...
BTW, I'll ask now... seriously...
Anyone had trouble with RD sources lately? I've got the same settings as usual in url resolver.
I haven't tried it lately, we've seen just about everything so we are giving it a rest and using Netflix for a while.
Yeah my gf is mostly the one who uses it, between school and work I don't have much time and also I'm ADD so I get distracted & rewind a lot or I get bored and try to fast forward to just find out what happened at the end, which then causes my gf to tell me to go play a vidya game or something. I literally tried to watch the first episode of the Americans like 14 times bc everyone told me it was good... But I did notice lately the RD sources aren't working.
But at the same time if you put on some semi-cheesy sci-fi thing like outer limits or x files or Battlestar Galactica or anything stargate I can probably watch that for hours if I had the time.
That too, or doctor who, firefly, etc...
Anything semi-cheesy and sci-fi.. As long as it's not too serious or grounded in reality. lol
The last "normal" TV show I actually managed to watch was Mr. Robot but probably bc it's kind of based on what I do.
Anything semi-cheesy and sci-fi.. As long as it's not too serious or grounded in reality. lol
The last "normal" TV show I actually managed to watch was Mr. Robot but probably bc it's kind of based on what I do.
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Well I just tried my RD sources and all working great. Your subscription didn't lapse did it.
Yeah you're right some of them are working, I have to try like 8 of them to get one to work... alluc ones still work every time though.
It's amazing when the best thing left to watch is a remake of a comic book series.
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