Tag: Reno

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Found the perfect place for our bridge sign

I have had this sign ever since I moved out of my parents house. This was shoved in a corner of the basement when they bought it. I never figured out why it was in the basement. I have read that the bridge was built from 1927-1929, but the sign says 1919. Maybe the sign company go the date wrong, or maybe there were huge delays. I am not sure but, it is a sweet ass lift bridge from the city I was born in.

4x speed

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Stairs

This was a big project but it turned out to be much easier than expected. The pressure switches were a bust but the LEDs strips work great. The stairs do not have enough play in them to trigger the pressure switches. I plan to use a distance sensor in leu of the switches.

Before
Pressure Sensor
LEDs, Sensors & Skirt Board
Lots of wires
Landing glued up
Stain Landing
Stain Treads
Skirt Board
Rugs So We Don’t Slip
Replaced The Light
After
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Second Floor Hallway Built-in

I cant seem to find a picture of the before but I was able to snap this frame from a video I found. The outside did not look too bad but the inside was the main reason we replaced the whole thing. I will update this post if I find any footage from the inside.

This was a simple build from a wood working stand-point. The whole unit was build downstairs in the workshop and dropped right place. Installed the molding, door, and paint.

I pre-ran all the LED wires prior to installing the frame. This project used 144/m 5V Individual Addressable RGB WS2812B LED Strip. After this project, I moved to all 12V variants and stopped obsessing over controlling every single pixel. The 5V + 144/M + long wire runs initially gave me some issue, but I eventually over came them.

The LEDs sit in a quarter round defuser that I originally bought for the stairs. This was my test run for the stair project and I am happy with how they came out.

Before
New Insides
Trim It
Test Fit The Door
Same Style Pulls
Dat Dense
Cover Up!
After Side
After Side
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Cloud Free All The Things!

This is one of my favorite IOT switches because it has a light and fan dimmer all in one gang slot. I swap out there Tuya SOC with an ESPHome flashed ESP8266. They have since changes their design, so I have been having issues finding more. 

esphome:
  name: our-bedroom-ceiling-fan
  friendly_name: "Our Bedroom Ceiling Fan"

esp8266:
  board: esp01_1m

# Enable Home Assistant API
api:
  encryption:
    key: ""
ota:
  platform: esphome
  password: ""

wifi:
  ssid: !secret wifi_ssid
  password: !secret wifi_password

  # Enable fallback hotspot (captive portal) in case wifi connection fails
  ap:
    ssid: !secret AP_ssid
    password: !secret AP_password

captive_portal:

# Enable logging
logger:
  baud_rate: 0

uart:
  rx_pin: GPIO3
  tx_pin: GPIO1
  baud_rate: 115200

tuya:

sensor:
  - platform: wifi_signal
    name: $friendly_name Wifi Signal
    update_interval: 60s

  - platform: uptime
    name: $friendly_name uptime

light:
  - platform: "tuya"
    name: $friendly_name Light
    dimmer_datapoint: 10
    switch_datapoint: 9
    min_value: 1000
    max_value: 1000

fan:
  - platform: "tuya"
    name: $friendly_name Speed
    switch_datapoint: 1
    speed_datapoint: 3
    speed_count: 4