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Could smear structural sealant around it . Allows for flexibility and water proof . You’ll sleep better if you’ve done that …

Record all meetings ( I used spy pen ) . You have a bad planning officer . I had lots of them . You need to formulate an approach that gets them removed so you get a new officer . Don’t take ultimatums ( accept this or go to appeal ) - that’s not how it is meant to work . A planning consult would help but at a cost …

Yep. Presume it's ok to link to the manufacturer https://www.jarrodsstaircases.co.uk

I didn’t build it ! . Got skilled man in

Yep ! 👍

Glass and brushed steel . But I wanted that installed later as I have “ work to do “ on the stairwell I.e the glass if installed would be in the way

I’d say magic but it’s not true ! . There’s a steel frame on the far side ( between tiled wall and stairs . They are effectively cantilevered . But each box rests on the previous so ultimately the ‘strain’ is taken from the big bottom step ( has a good chunk of timber and steel in it )

Not complete . Glazing on sides to go in later - very happy with it so far .

I didn’t read why @SteamyTea posted all this as it looked boring . But a certain phrase I’m familiar with caught my eye

Surely you want to over engineer this massively? Bollards that can be raised/lowered ( by lying down ) triggered by numberplate recognition / geo fence / alexa - that's what I would do!

Rubbish tv remake . All the evil kids have leds for eyes .

This approach is good ! The first gives a longitude The second gives a latitude You then meet him/her/it/they ( hard to be inclusive these days without offending someone ) and then you stab them ( it , him - whatever ) Extreme ? maybe ! - or the next Saw script !!! 😎

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You’ve never seen me with a giant dildo ! - that’s a lie ! . Though …. If it’s a suggestion OnlyFans is waiting !

I’d say it’s piss easy to make them ! Paint them pink so they look like giant dildos - ain’t no man gonna touch them 😉

What I do to prevent people busting open lockboxes is put a tenner next to it . Lockbox never been vandalised , though I seem to be going through tenners quite quickly ….

Made lots of progress here . By friggin ing a Ring can get Alexa to say whatever I want ( though use voice monkey ) for tts . Lots of applications and abuse for sure .

Thanks @Russell griffiths ! My build is “ work in progress , completion date TBA “

Out of interest would like to see some photos ! . Not sure I’d live long enough to complete another build 😊

Nah - I’m not that organised! 🙄

I do have automated backups of everything to my nas . But yes - it’s not plug ‘n play ! This of course is ontop of phscon , deconz on conbee …. so getting ( hopefully ) any zigbee device to work . Nothing worse being stuck for example in ‘ Philips hue ‘ world - where you must buy their product at an inflated price to have the functionality you want . Cheap , cheap direct from China - but can require work …

Yeah I know ! You have to run the script this way though … on windows

The drama is the fun ! Automation in my opinion should just happen ( lights on / off for example ) . Choice of music though requires some input ( tbh it’s often quicker to just use iPeng and select it ) .

No languages really . It’s all rather convoluted though …. So in homeseer ( HA ) it has Alexa functionality built in . But it can deal with any and all devices - which means it has a rather broad approach . To do something simple “ Alexa , turn on bathroom light “ is just a few menu tick boxes . To talk to squeezebox ( music streamer ) is more tricky . The instructions online aren’t very good … Need to create a custom script ( which a website helps you do ) , run this as a windows power shell . This then creates an ngrok tunnel . You get a unique identifier - you then use this to link the tunnel to squeezebox . There are a few other things that need to be done and caveats ( hence why most customer reviews are ‘ rubbish doesn’t work ‘ ) - it requires some effort . It’s obviously not aimed at the point and click brigade . The fact it takes an old but useful piece of software and adds Alexa functionality is pretty good I think ( squeezebox is small , efficient and very practical ) . You can then via HA have a keyword to trigger entire events if you wish e.g “ Alexa , do Christmas “ - could do any sequence of events . So then you can simplify come spoken words for speed - but I guess almost creating your own dialogue ….