The Puppy Cave
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So I recently moved into my best friend's basement for a few reasons, and I'm totally pimpin' out the space. As discussed in other threads, I have a badass home network with battery backup to run everything, but now I've taken it to a whole new level.
This will give you a general idea of the private space that is mine and mine alone. I am also rather lazy, so I like to be able to scream at a machine to do stuff for me and have it do what I want like an obedient and submissive robot.
As I said, I've taken things to a whole new level now. I still have a few more tweaks to do later on as I have the money to do it, but for now, it's pretty dope. I can control everything individually. The lights in the ceiling can be dimmed, but none of the lamps can... yet.
This will give you an idea of how elaborate things are now. There's a few other commands not shown here, but they're all commands that involve the other side of the curtain as the WHOLE basement is voice activated now... independently, in groups, all together, or by activating a preset that I have programmed, such as "activate mood lighting"
Is this kind of lazy friendly setup creepy, lazy, or genius? It's all 100% renter friendly.
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Where's the sling and the X-Cross?
Is your battery backup lead or lithium? I am quite disappointed with my lead backup system. They found a mountain of lithium in California, but there is no way the snowflakes in Califorina will allow it to be mined.
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@lololulu19 That's all in the works still... I'm getting more of the geeky stuff setup first.
As for the network itself, if I'm not mistaken the UPS units use SLA (Sealed Lead Acid) batteries. Each one will run for about 96 hours without hydro (electricity) service.
Upstairs, the network looks like a pretty normal setup, except that you'll notice that there's a UPS in the corner on the floor, which serves as a battery backup for the modem and router, and a Bluetooth smart switch for both the modem and router so I can reboot it from my phone, even without internet.
On the bottom shelf is the 1000/50 cable modem, and on the middle shelf is the main router/WAP. All of this goes down to the basement as a single cable.In the basement, there's a cabinet along the ceiling on the one wall. I used the far right side as my "communication station".
On the side of the cabinet we have the first of two UPS units for the network down in the puppy cave. This unit runs the VPN/Proxy bridge router as well as the central switch. You'll also notice the same Bluetooth switches on them. I can reboot the ENTIRE network without having to get up.Below the UPS on the left is the VoIP.FoIP adapter. The two lines run up to the ceiling where they split two ways... One to the fax machine across the basement, and the other, over the cabinets to the phone jack junction box for the house wiring. Beside it on the right is the router that maintains the VPN bridge between my network and my parents network This little bad boy comes in sooooo handy for so many things.
Then there's the cabinet itself.
The cabinet is normally held shut with twine and two screws. This is to hide the nightmare that is inside of this door lol
Inside the cabinet is a bit of a nightmare, but this is where all the hard wired devices in the house all come together, with the exception of the bedrooms on the top floor for now. If it's on the ground floor or in the basement and it can be hard wired. It is.On the top shelf is the UPS unit that runs the VoIP adapter as well as the main cordless phone base.It also runs the power cables to my TV, computer tower for the TV, and the Fire TV stick
Lastly, the main cordless phone base is down here with one of the handsets, as well as the Google display in my puppy cave. The phone itself is run from the phone jack on the one beam on the ceiling. The other two bases are just charge only bases, so only this one needs to have power for all three handsets to work. There's also hard wired phones upstairs in the kitchen, living room, and in the games room on the top floor.It's a pretty elaborate setup. It's only gonna get geekier and geekier.
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@MrMazda you might want to test out your lead acid batteries to see if they actually yield 96 hours of power.
One big difference between lead and lithium is that with a lithium battery, you can drain it completely.
With a lead battery, although it has a big charge, you can only utilize the battery when it is between about 10.8 volts and 14.8 volts. So a lithium battery puts out about 3.6 times as much power as a lead battery with the same specs. The lithium costs a LOT more too. -
@lololulu19 Yes. I put them to the test.... It was a very long 96 hours before the first one kicked off.
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@MrMazda WOW! That is great!
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It just got another upgrade....
Things are now dimmable, I have a voice activated or temperature activated space heater for backup heat, and I can now even reboot my fire tv stick without having to get out of bed.
Is this genius, lazy, or creepy? Everything is fully voice activated now.
