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re: Spectrum has purchased Cox

Posted by mchias1 on 8/20/26 at 3:41 pm to
Cox is a dying business. They refused to upgrade to fiber and now people are leaving for better cheaper options. Not sure what spectrum plans to do with all the cox infrastructure.

We are getting Rev as soon as they finish construction in our neighborhood. ATT is also moving in and stealing cox customers.
I've got a doodle and a aussie/lab mix. Both ask to go outside in the middle of the afternoon to go lay in the grass in the sun.

My husky who was mostly black used to do the same.

re: HDMI/eARC Converter

Posted by mchias1 on 8/10/26 at 1:23 pm to
eARC means enhanced audio return channel. It's just a way of sending audio back from the TV to the receiver. Amy HDMI cable should be capable of ARC.

OP, do have an HDMI cable with HDMI on both ends? Or do you happen to have a cable with display port connector.

The other question, does you tv support ARC? It should say on the TV input like the receiver does.

re: Should I get a lightning rod?

Posted by mchias1 on 8/1/26 at 7:57 am to
If it nuked the coax underground, adding a lightning rod won't do anything. The tree acting as a lightning rod conducting the electricity into the ground. Once there it fans out and that's how it found the coax.
OT from this thread but couldn't find your other one.

Have you tried openCode addon with HA? I just installed it and it made short work of creating an automation I wanted to do.

May want to try to it on your friends set up when you start. You can show him how to do it and then he can add his own automations later.
Nagoya closed within the last year as well. It's disappointing we are losing the restaurants as Jones Creek/Coursey area have almost everything in a small area. Will never say Outback was the greatest steaks, but our kids ate the steaks there.

We've lived jones creek area for 5 years now and went to portobellos maybe once. One of those places we never thought about to go eat and was never impressed with the food. We prefer.bisto Italia and where happy when they moved closer.

We definitely have hit City Cafe and Jasmines more often than any of the other restaurants around us.
What port forwarding?

Most home routers have VPN servers already on them. You press an enable button and give it a password. Done for setup. You install the VPN app on a phone and connect.

My old Asus router from 2010ish had ipsec built in and Asus had its own DNS forwarding.

I'm not talking about config of a unifi or more technical firewall appliance.


As far the computer, as long as it is turned on Blue Iris will run. You don't have to remain logged in. What commercial NVR will work with generic Chinese cameras?
Blue iris is software. Install it on a windows pc.

The cameras are POE. Get a POE dumb switch and plug the cameras in with an Ethernet cable.

There no coding to be done. May have to do a bit of config, but the most of that is knowing the camera ip addresses. You'll want to set up the cameras with static ip addresses. Pretty much all home routers support setting static ip addresses for devices.

Start a chatgpt convo and tell it what you equipment you have. It will give you a pretty decent guide for setting everything up.
Old computer with blue iris and set up a VPN to your house. Most home routers now have VPN server built in, just need to enable it.
Anyone have tips on unclogging a drain line?

re: Ripping out old shower/baths.....

Posted by mchias1 on 7/13/26 at 7:25 pm to
We used one of them for our master shower. We like the result but we know now we over payed by about 1.5x. You pay for the convience. The contractor who actually did the work was very helpful and worked with me, but that could be luck of the draw. We went with the most expensive panel as it was the only one that didn't look like cheap plastic. What we do like about the shower is it's 24" wide floor to ceiling panels that are connected by metal channels. No grout to have to clean.

Demo a bath is pretty easy.

Hire a handyman or a contractor who focuses on bathrooms and you'll save money compared to the "bath fitter" companies.

We are about to redo our daughters' bathroom. We will go the contractor route for theirs.
Post a picture.

If the screen is pressed into a channel it's easy. You need to completely remove the old screen. There's a piece of rubber pressed in the channel holding the screen in. You remove that and the screen will come out.

Buy new mesh and the screen install tool. Has a wheel with a groove in it you use to push a new piece of rubber into the channel. There's YouTube videos of how to do it.



If the mesh is held in place between 2 pieces of wood, like a glass pane, you probably need a new door.

re: QNED VS OLED

Posted by mchias1 on 7/6/26 at 1:41 pm to
You mean QNED? No such thing as ONED.

And yes OLED is organic light emitting diodes. They are self emmisive pixels, like the plasma days. If a pixel is black then it is a true black. The only other thing close is miniled. And good luck affording that.

QNED is a backlit tech. Therefore more than 1 pixel uses the same light source. No such thing as a true black unless all the pixels from that light source are off. This is still the same tech as all lcd/led tvs.

re: No weather thread for this?

Posted by mchias1 on 7/5/26 at 6:38 pm to
Well I was just about to post how we have no power off jones creek, but they just turned our power back on.

We were "scheduled" for 6am as well.
For Croatia he was onside when the ball was kicked, however the accelerometer inside the ball detected the touch of the other Croatian player first. That touch is what put him offside. Had the Portugal player touched it instead he would have been still been onside and the goal stood.

As far as the Ronaldo offside. I've been called for that close of offside playing forward and I've also used that rule to my advantage playing sweeper. If you see a guy sprinting down the middle you can step up before the ball is passed to him catching him offside (offside trap). As a forward you beat this by running across the field to get speed and as soon as your teammate passes the ball you turn towards goal. You have more speed than the defender and can get advantage to reach the ball first.
You stated correctly offside in soccer is to prevent an advantage of an attacker getting ahead of the 2nd to last defender and worst case goal camping waiting for a pass.

In football offside is called to prevent a defender from getting an unfair advantage rushing the backfield.

The equivalent in football is defense offside or lining up in the neutral zone. And if anyone has watched any bit of football they have seen coaches challenge plays saying a players tip of their helmet is lined up in the neutral zone.

And soccer just like football you can be offside until the play is started. In football that means the ball is hiked. In soccer it means you have made an attempt to play the ball.
The multi pump allows for cycling the pumps so 1 pump is not always run. You can also use more or less pumps depending on the demand along with varying each pumps speed.
VFD = variable frequency drive. Basically you can change the hz output of a drive to a motor. AC motors are controlled by the frequency given them.

An AC motor runs at 120V 60hz normally. That is considered full speed. And VFD would let you decrease the hz to say 30hz which is 50% speed.

As far as the current draw, you ever been in a house when the AC kicks on and the lights dim? That's due to the inrush current being too much for the utility at the moment. It can't supply more current so the voltage drops causing your lights to dim. If you install a soft starter or VFD on your AC it decreases the inrush current keeping the voltage from dropping.
On these size pumps you needs VFDs. If you don't you'd brown out the neighbors when motors are switched to line feed. The VFDs help the pumps start slowly reducing the inrush current.

Also they can vary the pump speeds as the rain rate varies. Say you have 1" of rain you can turn one pump on at 50% power. You get 2" you go up to 100% or start a 2nd pump at 50%.