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  • zerodawnAtoGaming@lemmy.world•End of an era?
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    2 months ago

    The only defense I’ll make towards the $600 launch price is the console shipped with a bluray player and at the time the cheapest bluray player was $1,200. I remember joking “why buy a bluray player when for the same money you could buy two PS3’s?”






  • zerodawnOPAtoMeshtastic@mander.xyz•Advice for height/range
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    4 months ago

    Unfortunately i think i know the local ham guy and his tower is a lower elevation than my back yard. I’d debated asking him if he wanted to move the tower to my house but i’m not interested in being responsible for somebody else’s gear on my lot, at least not gear that expensive.






  • When i say that imagination is the limit i mean it. I ordered some car seat pressure sensors and soldered them to either end of a door contact sensor and put them under our couch cushions. Now i have a battery powered, zigbee based, way to override the motion based automation if we’re on the couch. The lights stay on if we’re too still or they stay off if we’re napping and a pet walks in.

    I watched a video where a guy used meshtastic to reach the back of his property and those radios can run on solar.


  • I don’t doubt thread is getting better and could be the more future proof of them all but i bought some zigbee motion sensors for less than $10 and haven’t changed the battery in them in nearly two years. When thread devices are that cheap and can run on battery that long i’ll gladly recommend them too. For now, for beginners, i like to recommend zigbee for it’s low cost in both money and power usage.