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OK, i have to ask: why not just use a wifi-enabled pi? Maybe with a repeater inside the garage?
by i_have_to_speak 5y ago
OK, i have to ask: why not just use a wifi-enabled pi? Maybe with a repeater inside the garage?
- KaiserPro 5y agoI suspect its reliability. having stuff hardwired means its much less likley to be a network problem when something goes wrong. In my house I had a tesla powerwall installed (yes I know, rich prick alert) the gatway has some shitty wifi that cant be disabled, and kneecaps the range of my house wifi, because it insists on using the same channel. The back of the house can pick up the AP in the garden, the top front not so much. So a bunch of things are sporadic now. tldr: Wifi is fine until its not. Hardwiring for critical path stuff reduces a hard to diagnose mode of failure.
- ComputerGuru 5y agoI agree that wifi sucks and I would take a 100mbps Ethernet connection over wifi any day. That said, a wifi ap on the same band that isn’t in use shouldn’t add too much interference; it’s just going to be the ssid broadcast packets. Unless you are using it? Can’t you change your house wifi to another channel to avoid the interference? You could also tape some antistatic bags together around the power wall box to act as a faraday cage, and throw in a Pi acting as a wifi-to-Ethernet bridge into the box or inside the f cage to get a wired signal out, if the interference is really that bad.
- ozim 5y agoI bet $100 when 27kw generator is running, there is no wifi connection inside that housing possible anyway.
- KaiserPro 5y agoI would hope that this genny outputs a decent waveform and has proper shielding.
- taylorportman 5y agoThe router should be on UPS
- ozim 5y agoI think metal housing is still part that is designed to block EM radiation from generator. Which will also block wifi. Then there is all EM that is inside and agree would be nice if it outputs decent waveform.