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Decoupling Mat for sure

When I spent zillions on tiles the kind man in the shop also sold me some of this . Is it really necessary? Or just snake oil ??

I put some ufh around it to keep it warm . Then some glazing on it as a ‘ feature ‘

Standard for a man of your age … First to rise , first to fall - Mr. Flaccid

You can ! But it’s not much fun

I don’t know ! laser innit !! ?

This better be good . Been waiting with my hand in my pants for 2 years !!

I was told this relatively recently . Built in ones less efficient at heat . Though how much less efficiency I’m not certain ( not a great deal from memory) PV is ‘ better value ‘ with an EV and a battery . I estimate repayment for us at this point will be around 7 years .

It’s not that bad really ….

Can’t recommend the Rubi ( or similar ) levelling system enough .Tried some others ; whilst pretty good - this one is the best . My workmanship now exceeds Uncle Nicks ( aka @Nickfromwales ) . Indeed round here they just call me “ The Incredible Tiler “ - tit for short

Did you wee in the pool ?

I know the feeling …

He’s got a big nutter

I don’t know . Uvo prima Vence was a nice girl

Speaker level I guess

Yeah I looked into that . The squeezebox server software is well ropey - that just didn’t work in any reliable way hence the ‘ hardware ‘ method

All digital Basically a raspi pi per room . So on the rooms where I want the doorbell heard or speech insert one of these . In reality probably only want doorbell on ground level hallway speaker and below ground kitchen speaker . Speech announcements probably just underground also . So doorbird button push will do a http request which HA picks up triggering mp3 play via squeezebox onto relevant raspberry pi . Why make it complicated ??

Tempted by this https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/264499270875?hash=item3d956294db:g:Dx4AAOSwob5fD-tR passive and simple , oh and small and cheap ?

Lot of big gear just to have a voice say “ @onoff at the door - F off “

Bit of a chunky monkey for 70 quid . Was looking at things like https://vi.raptor.ebaydesc.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemDescV4&item=152411240874&category=19699&pm=1&ds=0&t=1623075843000&ver=0&cspheader=1 ( no idea if that does what I want )

Nah that’s all pants ! Tempted to go for a 20 quid ebay mixer and have announcements and doorbell just play at the same time as any music . Simpler solution .

Erm ! Sure you are right . Can you link to some cheap stuff on eBay please ? ? I also believe ( correct me if wrong ) that a microphone input would mute all other channels ? ( so perfect for automated speech ) ....

Thanks Yes all raspberry pi amps all active at once . Don’t know of a way that the pi can pull a gpio line high on audio output ...

Useless . Just need someone who understands audio mixers . As an ex software engineer I can manage an if/then but I’m trying to do this at a hardware level ( via the mixer , even if programmable ) as the audio software api isn’t going to work