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The LAB

In this document, “the LAB” refers to all the electronic gizmos and gadgets in our home that are connected to the network, either directly via an ethernet cable (or sequence of cables), or indirectly via WiFi or other wireless technologies and protocols. All LAB devices are in the unit B guest bedroom, unless indicated otherwise

The devices are listed here with (forthcoming) links to further details about each device or group of similar devices1.

  • Ubiquiti Unifi products
    • Unifi Dream Machine SE
    • Unifi 24-port switch
    • Unifi Access Points
      • The Unifi 7 Pro in the unit B guest bedroom, to be moved to the unit B living room ceiling
      • The Unifi 7 Pro Outdoor mounted outside on the back wall of the unit B guest bedroom
      • Unifi 7 Pro Wall in a stand on the desk in the unit A guest bedroom
      • A Unifi 6 Extender plugged into the outlet on the rear (west) wall of the unit A garage
  • Various other servers, hubs, and gateways
    • The Home Assistant server
    • The n8n server, a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 mounted on an IO board
    • A Raspberry Pi CM5 server, the purpose of this is TBD
    • The Olimex Bluetooth gateway
    • The Philips Hue hub
    • The Arlo surveillance cameras hub.
    • An EPSON ET-4800 printer
  • Several ESPHome devices
    • The Keurig Coffee Filler controller mounted behind the refrigerator in Unit B Kitchen
    • Seven LED string controllers that each drive a string of LED’s mounted on ‘the ceiling’ of the gazebo
    • The controller for drip irrigation system west tank depth sensor, pressure sensor, and temperature sensor. (The latter is, essentially, of no use but the pressure sensor device also provides water temperature so why not track it.)
  • Shelly power switches and buttons
    • One inside each of the three top outlet boxes on the north posts of the gazebo
    • One inside each of the two boxes to which the gazebo ceiling fans are attached
    • One in the outlet box mounted on the back fence near the northeast corner of the large concrete slab in the back yard
    • Two in the two-gang outlet2 mounted on the wall near the bottom of the east edge of the unit A guest bedroom’s north-facing window.

Footnotes

  1. Adding the detailed information pages and the links to them is work-in-progress. ↩

  2. The drip irrigation system water pump is pluged into this outlet known as Receptacle 2 in Home Assistant ↩

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