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The steels are behind a 30min rated ceiling . This I think is what convinced him .

I think it’s rather a lot of nonsense in a domestic . Fireman getting tangled in cables so needs a cable tray - hmmmmmmm . Massive rsj not fire resistant? . How hot is the fire ? Burning for how long ? - until it fails . Going to be quite a wait I think .

No no no . You play with HA to avoid doing the build . Trust me on this 😊

Are we sure that it’s not its own proprietary WiFi signal ? . E.g my somfy blinds operate on 433mhz and therefore a bitch to HA .

This type of thing is quite easy in HA . I did have a quite complex thing running but it just kept failing . So “ Alexa play a random album by Coldplay in the kitchen “ My local music library was used ( no Spotify shite ) - would choose a random Coldplay album and play it on my music system ( raspberry pi to powered speakers ) in the lounge . It was awesome - for the record you could obviously say ANY artist in my music collection . So I need to look at that again once their Alexa variant comes out . I did have working temporarily when I go downstairs in the morning ( based on my having my phone ) . Alexa asks me without prompting “ do you want the radio on ? “ . An answer of yes did it . Stuff like that is a bitch as you need an Amazon developer account and is a royal pita . Not reliable ! Also of course using Amazon cloud based spies !! Soon all that and local !!

Sending stuff to China ( or wherever) is becoming more of an issue . Home assistant is all local . Also they have been working on their own Alexa type hardware . So you can have voice control without telling mr.chim all your details . BTW - it’s me that’s been monitoring your Alexa ; I have all your details and PIN code . To prove it I’ll empty your bank account . You ready ? . Here goes ! Done ! Ah (expletive deleted) ! Your account was empty anyway ! 😊

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Well done ! Just like to add I beat you to sign off ! 🤣👍

Yeah . I’ve seen plenty of photo of burnt out Shelly’s / capacitors blown . They claim they didn’t overload it . My experience was a dimmer relay ( in a ceiling void so lots of airflow ) powering some lights ( max 20w - relay spec much higher than that ) . After 3 hours the Shelly shut down with overheat warning . Yet too see a zigbee or zwave device ‘panic’ over that . So I removed it . I only use Shelly’s for simple on/off ( so not on for long periods ) and where I have no choice I.e WiFi signal strong but zigbee weak .

This would be a nice easy and cheap way to automate. Personally I’ve not had good experience with Shelly’s .

This is the thing . What starts off as just a few lights on when you enter a room becomes ; control the heating , control music , alerts from cctv etc etc etc I would certainly try home assistant ( it’s free ) on maybe your laptop ( so no dedicated hardware ) just to test it and see . It’s a steep learning curve for more complex tasks though .

Go underground my friend ….

Yep . Any Linux hardware will do it . Depends how much you want to do …

My current issue ( until the 2nd trap arrives ) is the heat exchanger effectively leaking at the base and coming through the front panel . Will test the trap problem ( and potential ) suction issues soon .

Not being rude - but an architect should come up with something better for your needs .

I also used flexible adhesive to bed my stone shower tray ( weight around 100kg ) . Not going anywhere .

Still leaks from front around this point circled . Managed to tip the entire until back a bit more . Also squeezed a plastic wedge under the front of the heat exchanger to allow it to tip a bit more . Front design here seems really poor - a tiny 1mm lip and the base felt sat in the middle of it which clearly soaks the water up .

Control4 is mega money and I can’t see the real benefit for the cost . Depending on what you want to automate I can recommend home assistant.

(expletive deleted) me - talk about going off topic ! Anyway - to solve all problems - everyone is a homogeneous blob aka an ‘it’ . There are ; 75 ( and counting ) genders summoned up . So many definitions means there are no definitions….

So chicken tikka masala ( yes I know not a real Indian dish ; been to goa … ) . Home made Nan bread and home made onion bajis . Now (expletive deleted) off 🤣👍😊 You can decide if that’s my finger or not

The Waitrose ones I drank yesterday! 👍

Fixing my issues 😊 Cooking and wine !

Neighbors will love me for it also

Need to dig this out ( it’s only crap ground in the lane ) . Maybe 2m long and not very wide and I assume won’t need to go very deep as concrete slab should be more or less at the same level as the lane . Probably less work than I think ! 🤣

Not really . The lanes quite long and it’s the base that’s the issue . I’ve been avoiding doing this for 3 yrs so perhaps next spring I really need to dig a small trench and see !