Finally Spending My YouTube Money

[jakkuh_t]

 

[Zodiark1593]

Yvonne's magenta highlights looks fantastic. Am wondering if she does that herself?

 

If this was 20 years ago, I could buy my parent's old place right now. Regrettably, time machines do not exist (the house is now above 4x), and it seems like the more money I make, the higher housing climbs. Need to really step on the gas with the photography side hustle.

 

Pretty awesome home there, Linus, and those renovations will really push it over the top. Wishing you many years of enjoyment there.

[petor123]

this is why its okay to use adblock 

[Lightwreather]

1 minute ago, petor123 said:

this is why its okay to use adblock 

And ofc we're gonna keep that discussion going.

Jeez, it's been a week and the megathread for this ahs reached 20 pages already, I'm genuinely tired of hearing both sides argue.

[Zodiark1593]

8 minutes ago, J-from-Nucleon said:

And ofc we're gonna keep that discussion going.

Jeez, it's been a week and the megathread for this ahs reached 20 pages already, I'm genuinely tired of hearing both sides argue.

It's one of those battles where the only winning move is to refrain. Whether Linus's hot take was right or wrong, it has zero impact upon my life. There's no shame in avoiding a battle (even if you are "in the right") that doesn't serve a purpose.

[cmndr]

My girlfriend wants a pretty place. At one point her condo looked like an Ikea magazine.

I got her a subwoofer. She eventually came around.

[MultiGamerClub]

"a fun threesome"

 

Love the wholesome comment Jake.

Edited February 5, 2022 by MultiGamerClub

[omniful]

If someone would be willing to share the name of the general contractor that organized all of this I would appreciate it. I'm looking at a VERY similar renovation this year and I just can't find anyone who understands the whole picture, especially the IT infrastructure parts. I would definitely fly this person and crew from Canada for the job.

[Ultraforce]

2 minutes ago, omniful said:

If someone would be willing to share the name of the general contractor that organized all of this I would appreciate it. I'm looking at a VERY similar renovation this year and I just can't find anyone who understands the whole picture, especially the IT infrastructure parts. I would definitely fly this person and crew from Canada for the job.

I don't believe they've provided that information publicly, but presumably they are a high-end general contractor who works in the Greater Vancouver Area.

 

Oh yeah, I wonder with Yvonne's issues with Thunderbolt 3 on Windows if they would be fixed if for her PC they instead used a different operating system and set up so on boot it opens a virtualized Windows session. Either on with MacOS or Linux on the back end. Though admittedly while it might improve reliability, Linus would probably not  find troubleshooting it to be as easy as he's not used to MacOS or Linux.

[Quackers101]

linus + jake confirmed *brings tinfoil hat*

not yvonne? was it her twin sister?

[sub68]

48 minutes ago, MultiGamerClub said:

"a fun threesome"

 

Love the wholesome comment Jake.

That was something I actually laughed too hard at

[zdog16]

If Linus wants to get rid of the extra stats you could use Loytec Controllers to controls the AC. They are IP based controls that are 100% open. You can get controllers to talk to any HVAC or BAS protocol, and they support Node-Red integration natively so you can build as much integration to Home Assistant as you want. You could send the temperature from the Zigbee stats over Node-Red.

[ntindle]

Have y’all looked into Crestron NVX/NAX (Network Video/Audio) systems for managing all the AV? I know it’s a bit out of touch with the consumer stuff but you could write a Home Assistant plugin to manage it. It would keep you from needing to buy 10 PlayStations and DVD players and putting them all over the house. 
 

I would really recommend at least taking a look into it. 
 

disclosure; I am an engineer for Crestron but this is not sponsored message. I do not speak for the company. 

[sub68]

This video reminds me of LTT roast

[Nystemy]

In regards to remote buttons for actuating the start and reset buttons.

All one needs is two of these, one for each signal:

Any small signal NPN transistor should do.
The 100nF capacitor on the transistor's base is to negate any EMI from reeking havoc on the system. And the transistor is mainly there so we don't have to send any major currents long distance. 5V can be gotten from almost any USB port, thanks to the 5Vsb from the PSU. (a nice use for one of those extra internal USB 2.0 headers one usually have left over.) With this circuit, one should logically be able to extend the signal a more or less silly distance. (likely a good few km.) Though, I would go with twisted pairs as to further reduce EMI.

[Ultraforce]

37 minutes ago, ntindle said:

Have y’all looked into Crestron NVX/NAX (Network Video/Audio) systems for managing all the AV? I know it’s a bit out of touch with the consumer stuff but you could write a Home Assistant plugin to manage it. It would keep you from needing to buy 10 PlayStations and DVD players and putting them all over the house. 
 

I would really recommend at least taking a look into it. 
 

disclosure; I am an engineer for Crestron but this is not sponsored message. I do not speak for the company. 

The AV is not of concern, Linus has previously explained but while he has a blu-ray/DVD collection he copies them onto his Plex server and streams them through that. Making dvd players unnecessary.

[Cameron Turner]

Loving the future proofing with the conduit. We have the exact same plan for when we start the build on our new house. I may have gone one step further (too far?) and planned conduit to every outlet and camera.

 

We designed the conduit right to the attic space so you get as many vertical drops as possible (for easy cable pulls) then route the cable back down to the server room. Although we didn't have the complexity of basement to deal with in the design. 

 

Also may have gone OTT and planned conduit to the front driveway to a cabinet with a remote lock on it, for guests to charge rather than having to swap the cars around. 

 

Love this series - please do more on it!

[Needfuldoer]

[20 years in the future...]

 

Linus: "Where did I run that conduit?!"

 

Cyber-Jake: *Digs through New New New New [etc] New Vault for the raw footage from this shoot*

[lord DJCTE]

Out of curiosity, why does Jake have input on Linus' house? Are they related?

[crazzp]

40 minutes ago, lord DJCTE said:

Out of curiosity, why does Jake have input on Linus' house? Are they related?

Jake is the smart home guy at LTT and he is overseeing the reno project. 

[Nystemy]

2 hours ago, James Evens said:

How about  optoisolation?

 

Differential signaling like RS485. CAN should also work well but then you need to think more about termination/ transmission lines in general.

Opto isolation can be used if one expects the other side to not be at the same ground potential. This would however be strange if one just runs a bit of twisted wire up to another floor and over to an otherwise insulated button.

RS484/232 is generally rather overkill for a simple remote switch due to the extra complexities that it carries. Then one could instead just use a Raspberry PI or Aurdino and hook it straight into the home automation suite, something that wouldn't be particularly hard in practice, though dubious to why one would need that. _{(Though, being able to start the computer remotely and remote into it from the office or elsewhere would have some advantages for some people.)}

[Ultraforce]

1 hour ago, lord DJCTE said:

Out of curiosity, why does Jake have input on Linus' house? Are they related?

Jake was the writer who was put partially in charge of the home renovation. He's the writer for all but the first New House video, and in general just has a wide range of interest and knowledge that is useful for this type of project.

[AndreiArgeanu]

Linus and Yvone look like kids next to Jake

[cmndr]

12 hours ago, Quackers101 said:

linus + jake confirmed *brings tinfoil hat*

not yvonne? was it her twin sister?

I once had coworker named Yvonne who asked ME to do something instead of someone with a similar name. I snidely and sarcastically told her "Yvette, do you think we all are the same?"
She started laughing. She has an identical twin sister named Yvette.

I should probably reach out to her and say "Hi."

[Nystemy]

29 minutes ago, James Evens said:

Also you keep what ever goes on with noise on the other site on that site.

Common mode, more or less.
Signal noise, depends. Opto couplers are fairly analog and do let a lot of junk through unless one puts on a filter.
But for a relatively short wire only going a few tens of meters in a typical home, then there won't be much EMI to worry about. It isn't like most consumers runs a large lathe or laser cutter next to their desktop. _{(I however do run both a lathe and laser cutter near one of my workstations, but even then EMI isn't problematic. My oscilloscopes though sees them running without issue.)}
 

In short, I wouldn't worry about noise to be fair. A small 100nF capacitor on the base of the transistor should filter out most junk, and with simple twisted pairs one won't pick up much EM to begin with. It is a power switch after all, it is either on or it is off. Human fingers might be fast, but even twiddling it at a finger numbing 10Hz is barely oscillating as far as even 50 meters of wire is concerned, so any transmission line effects will not be a thing. If one is paranoide about such however, then use a 5k resistor at the base of the transistor, and another 5k resistor at the switch, and put in another 100nF capacitor over the switch/resistor combo to smooth out the transition by a fair bit.

But now the bill of materials is getting out of hand for the application... _{(this overkill contraption can likely work flawlessly next to a welder to be fair.)}

To be honest, one can likely just extend the cable for the start button itself by another couple of meters and skimp on a buffered and noise filtered circuit all together if one only has to go 1-5 meters. This is however not always reliable and some motherboards are more flakey than others in this regard. _{(This isn't my first rodeo doing this exact thing.)}