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This is truely living the dream, well done mate! It is indeed crazy that cabinetry costs the same as the technology. How does the cat restroom exhaust work? A
by teruakohatu 2y ago
This is truely living the dream, well done mate! It is indeed crazy that cabinetry costs the same as the technology.
How does the cat restroom exhaust work? Always on or does it have a sensor?
Do the cat doors prevent sound getting into the kids' rooms from the living room?
- kentonv 2y agoThe cat room fans are standard bathroom fans. At present we just leave them on all the time -- you can see the switches taped down in the photos. I suppose it might be a good idea to rig up a sensor...
- hunter2_ 2y agoMight be able to use a flipper zero as the sensor, if the cats are chipped. Then you'll have data to catch any unusual usage, like a urinary blockage, before it becomes a serious problem! At that point you're a smart switch and Home Assistant script away from fan control.
- kentonv 2y agoGarply had a blockage once and he did a remarkably good job of communicating the problem to us directly!
- allenrb 2y agoAs a fellow cat person, I feel pretty confident interpreting what’s being implied here. :-) Beautiful home and contents, btw! It seems expensive but more than a few folks would have spent the same money on “nicer marble” or something.
- kentonv 2y agoHeh, I actively dislike "nice marble" or anything that just looks expensive without providing any functional benefit.
- ahaucnx 2y agoI would recommend to use an TVOC sensor that detects smell very easily and then automatically switch on a fan. Could be a fun project. Just need: - TVOC sensor like the SGP41 - ESP32 microcontroller - Electric Relay
- teruakohatu 2y agoInteresting idea. Do TVOC respond with enough signal to low level aromatics verses all the particles from cooking or pollution?
- amluto 2y agoI’m highly unimpressed by my couple of SGP41 sensors, but they would probably work for this application.
- trebligdivad 2y agoI did wonder where the network connections were going into the cat areas!
- devenson 2y agoConstant fans are sucking outside air into your house. Could be part of your Heat/AC efficiency problem mentioned in your post. A timer to run every 10th minute would be a simple improvement.
- kentonv 2y agoYeah that's a good point, I should turn off the fans for a day and see if it changes the power use...
- eastbound 2y agoHeat exchangers can ensure the incoming air is heated up by the air going out, at no cost.
- kentonv 2y agoWe do have an ERV. But I suppose the cat fans don't actually exhaust through it. Maybe we could have arranged that had we thought harder about it before construction...
- eastbound 2y agoSir, I want to add that it was deeply inspiring. While I’m struggling at 40 just being a CEO of 14 people, which by one measure is excellent but I have put aside so many lives for it and failed at all my social ventures (yes I mean friends and dates); You, you succeed to have time for a wife (a potentially intellectually interesting person at that, according to your brief summary), you succeed to build a house, manage a lot of people at work, have friends with proper deep connections, and still have energy for home renovations. It’s like you’re living 9 lives at once. Oh yeah and kids. Like my uncle, who, beyond children, still had time for home renovations to build a cozy nest everywhere they lived. In this day of international men’s day, maybe I should still enquire about your internal mental health, because stress can be discreet, but still, the outer appearance you give from your allocation of time and clarity of mind seems absolutely perfect.
- teruakohatu 2y agoA sensor would be easy enough, there are simple non-smart sensor fan timer that will activate a fan for a programable time.