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Hardwiring TVs when you have great wifi is dumb. Most TVs still use 10/100 adapters, so you can likely get faster speeds via wifi

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Only things I have wired are wireless nodes and about 15 10/100 PoE things like cameras, lights, intercoms. Couple minis are wired but not through the walls.

Only downside to 10/100 switch is if uplink is only 10/100 then just a hand full of cameras or TVs can saturate it.

I don’t like the idea of wiring up rooms Willy nilly. My house has I think 50+ outdated and unused tech things in the walls and ceilings. It’s an absolute nightmare. Modify the house only when necessary or zero risk (will always be out of sight).


As for between buildings: fiber has advantage of speed and does not greatly increase the risk of lightning damage when spanned between buildings. It can also be run in conduit with live wires. Also, ethernet cables aren’t available as both outdoor/burial and riser rated, adding significant to complexity with these kinds of runs.

Disadvantage for fiber is you can’t bend it too much, you need someone with experience to terminate it, and you need switches with sfp ports. I don’t think cost is a a big difference.

I ordered 100’ each 12/2, 16/3 and 18/3 full copper CMR/cmp. Plan on putting front and back/pool 4 channel controllers centrally located. My IT area is centrally located in the narrow part of the house, close to both, so lucked out there. It’s also up high in an attic-connected cubby hole.

Come to think of it, 16/2 would have made sense for injection, but I’m going to have independent channels because lots of disconnected areas. Or have to extend the line with 3 wires back into the attic and onto the next section. Maybe just a couple injections.

Edit again. Ordered some 16/2. Damn y’all. I hate optimizing. Rather build.

lol vSee literally sells access to your home network to web scrapers, or so I’ve heard.

I've been a TifTuf homer for years up until now. One thing leads to another and I forget to water for a couple weeks, then again a couple weeks later. oops.

Anyway, the TifTuf is definately holding up better than the common Bermuda but isn't recovering any faster. Meanwhile, the Celebration never really stopped looking great and is throwing runners again the second the tap turns back on.

I'm sure TifTuf is the better grass under tightly managed conditions, but old school Celebration seems to be kicking its butt when things start getting messy.

This thread made me look again and Ali express is through roof now but Amazon has some “WeGoIOT” 4-channel ESP32 controllers with mic on sale for $13 after further discount. I just picked up 6 more. I usually use only 25w power so I need to spread the controllers out thin for big music effects.

Edit: that was articulated horribly. You can use several 25w sources on the same controller on different channels or isolating Vcc on same channel even. Still, I’m controller heavy to keep things organized and powered the way I want.

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Edit: FWIW, I have 30 LED/M strip and only run every other light. It's plenty.

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This is a good point. It’s so easy to get overwhelmed when ordering these.

5v for <5m runs, 12v for longer runs
30/m is fine for outside when people are at a distance.
Individually addressable is nice but addressing 3 at a time will probably work for most and in theory is more reliable. If you go ws2811 AND 30/m then your resolution is 4+ inches. Still ok for most things.

There is also the COB that have a cool continuous appearance but only 4-8” resolution.

RCBWW adds warm white perfect for indoors if used as main lighting and not just accent. Otherwise, plain RCB is good.
RCBCW is the cool white that makes whites pop on displays but I still find bright whites to be unsettling on Christmas. Just a personal thing.

I just use PoE splitters but running PoE in general makes retrofits 1000x easier compared to 120v or rigging up a low voltage supply. Crazy that in 2026, 120v residential lighting still even exists. Inside or out.

Also full white control is going to cost a lot more compared to the trusty 2815 that can span really far and is basically free

lol ya that’s a ways off but we do have family in Vegas and one is a burning man DJ but I haven’t been to burning man since 2007 when it started to get gay so I don’t know what those guys are up to now. Barely missed edc this year.

yTTV lost football almost 3 weeks last year. Week 1 of 3 was the end for me

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Being able to use my IPTV service through Plex and have shows DVR'd directly to my TV Shows library is chefskiss

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Exactly! The whole point of IPTV is to escape all the DRM, app lock-dows, and device rules so that everything is open and configurable.

Saving tokens is impossible outside of turning thinking down. Saving your context window is all the rage. For that there is graphify and sub agents.

Personal accounts simply don’t give you enough tokens to get things done, even at $200 per month, unless you schedule your life around the usage windows.

If you want to get things done on your own schedule, you need to move over to openrouter and use mainly deepseek 4 flash or Luna. You can still click over to something more expensive if you get in a bind and never have to leave your coding agent.

Edit: obv context and tokens closely related but there is still no one-size-fits-all trick. Don’t pull datasets directly on small projects. Don’t go into huge repos without graphs. As far as the output tokens, that’s 90% thinking. Maybe more. Don’t allow big think when it doesn’t need it.