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Cake day: August 5th, 2023

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  • Yeah good luck with not getting caught. Climbing a ladder an trying to fiddle with a cable on a foreign house.

    Oorrr sitting in a van around the corner and hacking the radio signal…

    Jup there is no question (for me) what is more secure in the long run. And that’s the important question when choosing home automation equipment. In my opinion. Of course wifi/ZigBee etc is easier to setup (if you don’t build the house from scratch)



  • Hmm no,

    • first oft all: noise. Wind turbines have moving parts, that attached to a building or even worse attached to a balcony creates noise in the whole building. Imagine the rattling of 5-6 ~10 year old, bad maintained, wind turbines.
    • Second: the energy output is rather low. A 1,2KW turbine is about 1.2m/3.9feet big. That’s in spherical, cause it has to be able to rotate by wind direction.
    • Third: balconies are preferred to not have wind, but sun.
    • And last but not least: blades. Every windturbine form factor has (fast) moving blades. If it’s reachable someone is going to stick a finger in it.

    If you’re living more suburban and have a windy detached place to setup a small windturbine that’s an option. On the garage or shed for example.