Improvements in and around my home
My old shed was bought about 17 years ago, and unfortunately it has seen better days. I replaced the original paper thin roofing felt about 13 years ago, and that in itself is probably about the best preserved part of the shed. The back wall has rotted away where there was a buildup of leaves,…
While technically my car is not part of the house, however, I thought this is probably the best blog to add this post to. I have wanted a tow bar for my 2016 Mitsubishi Outlander ever since I purchased it, to allow me to tow my beach buggy and also any trailers that may be…
I purchased a Pod Point Solo 7KW car charging point from Ebay in June last year for £215.00 including P&P. I then proceeded to purchase all of the additional items I would need: 6m of 6mm² 3 core Steel Wired Armoured (SWA) cable 4 module consumer unit 2 x 1m of 16mm² tails for the consumer unit…
Not long after Installing the CCTV cameras, Ubiquiti brought out some new cloud keys, one of which has a built in NVR and runs their new Protect CCTV software, this being the UCK-G2-PLUS. This NVR is constantly recording from all of your attached cameras and comes with an internal 1TB drive, it also functions as…
Now that my network was reasonably stable, I decided I wanted to expand my use of the Ubiquiti Unifi products to include some of their CCTV camera range. Initially I purchased 3 of the outdoor UVC-G3-AF cameras. But quickly added 3 of the indoor UVC-G3-Flex cameras. Rather than purchase an NVR device, I decided to…
I have known for a while that the brick walls in my house were likely to be my biggest barrier to decent wi-fi coverage, but I wasn’t really sure just how bad they were. A few years back I drew up my house in Visio and one of the tabs shows the whole house with…
The pair of Actiontec ECB6200 MoCA 2.0 network adapters actually arrived whilst I was writing the previous article, but as that one was becoming pretty lengthy, I decided to start a new one to cover off this topic. Now MoCA 2.0 does not play well with satellite signals, since it operates in the 1125-1675MHz frequency range that sits slap bang…
This post will show how i wired up my house for Satellite multi-room, but first some history. I have a number of satellite dishes on the side of my house, the first was installed around 1996 which was a 60cm dish for the Sky analog service on the Astra satellites at 19.2° East. I then…
Over the years I have had a number of network solutions in my house, most of which revolved around what equipment I had in my office space, especially in the pre wi-fi days. My internet has moved from a standard telephone line with a modem at 1440bps (or slower), through ISDN, ADSL and currently a…
Our front door is still the original one that was fitted to the house back in 1935, so we decided it was well overdue for an upgrade. There are some sizeable gaps for the wind to come in, thanks to the door warping over the years, plus the lock has been replaced a few times…