klinquist

An add-on GPS would be helpful for all sorts of remote telemetry applications.

They mention it is battery ready, small solar panels w/ battery charge controllers are very plentiful in the market today. If this is anything like competitors (Particle), you can put the devices in a very low power sleep state and have them wake up on event or on a time schedule to connect to LTE and send data.

I assumed this would be about prompt engineering. I often feel like I'm arguing with toddlers when interacting with LLMs :).

I just assumed it uses Plaid.

trtparity.com, looks like it's a local problem, loads on cellular.

Website won't load - just me?

I use monit and m/monit server to measure CPU/load/memory/disk, processes, and HTTP endpoints.

Lots of complexity with that question. CB is voice, this is digital. Typically, digital communications can "travel further for a given watt" because the power is "focused" on a smaller amount of bandwidth.

CB can propagate (be bounced off of layers of the atmosphere) to get a significant distance, but it depends on atmospheric conditions, time of day, etc. So not reliable.

I've talked to Uruguay on my ham radio on 4 watts (HF, 10-meter band), but once again, I can't do that reliably/every day.

LoRA is 900mhz (in the US) so you don't get atmospheric propagation.. but with the right antenna (height is might!), you can get several miles in a city environment with only a watt or two... so forming a mesh is what allows you to achieve further distances.

It is not legal to encrypt CB or ham radio communications.

love ESPHome. Someone made an ESPHome driver for my Rheem Water Heater via the M5Stack ESP32 w/ RS485. I primarily use Hubitat rather than HomeAssistant, so I adapted it to Hubitat. I use it to automate my water heater based on my airbnb calendar, all without needing a cloud/internet.

One thing I didn't see mentioned, assuming you're all on Apple devices: Add your parents as "children" to your iCloud account. That'll let you restrict access to things and reset their password if necessary.

It may not be well known that VMWare Fusion supports this.

I run Windows on a Mac Mini functioning as an ESXi server.

From my Macbook Pro, I can connect to it with Fusion Pro and attach USB devices to the Windows VM. I use this to program ham radios and troubleshoot my vehicle with Toyota Techstream + USB OBD2 adapter.

Tailscale or Zerotier. I recommend this anyway - putting parents' computers on your "local lan".

Thank you for that perspective. I spend a week a month in my airbnb, so it is considered more of my second home than a business. There are photos of my wife and I in the house, and I think the house feels "warmer" for guests because it's not just a sterile hotel or full-time business.

I spend at least a week a month there. It's more my second home than a full-time business. It is not profitable.

I have a 4.99 rating with almost 100 stays, which seems to be telling me I don’t have a bad rap. In the end, it is my cleaners’ responsibility to leave my house ready for the next guest.

Are we arguing over the difficulty of loading soap and pressing a button? Yes, it would be possible for the cleaner to do it, and I don't negatively review a guest who doesn't. But it makes things much easier if the cleaner can simply unload upon arrival... and once again, helps keep pests at bay. My property is in the woods and it can be a challenge.

I pay my cleaners to make sure the home is clean. Simple as that.

If it stops being sustainable, I'll change my policy. I'm willing to change. I'm always revisiting my policies / listing / amenities / etc.

My existing solution does, by asking guests to remove the sheets.

Obviously, if no sheets are removed, they would all be cleaned.

First, note that Airbnb shows it "built into the rates" when you put in the number of days you are staying when making a reservation. See this article from 2022: https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/7/23444561/airbnb-total-pri...

But to answer your question - because it is a fixed cost per stay.

If you stay two nights @ $250/night, you'll pay an additional $200 cleaning fee (so that would be $350 night if I were to "build cleaning in") If you stay 6 nights @ $250/night, you'll still only pay an additional $200 cleaning fee (so it would be $283/night if were to "build cleaning in").

Airbnb doesn't allow me to charge a different $ based on the number of nights stayed. But they are showing an all-inclusive cost to the user when the user is browsing with their # of days, so there is nothing hidden...

and to your "give it time" statement, it's been over 5 years...

6 beds (comprising of 4 different sizes of beds/sheets) make it quite wasteful if a bed is not used. It already takes ~5 hours to clean the home.

How am I not honest? The listing shows my cleaning fee and checkout list. Everything is transparent.

My cleaners travel 25 mins each way to my remote home and spend 5 hours cleaning. In a hotel, with identical setups in each room, they can do a lot more work in that time.

My checkout list is clearly defined in my listing, which is doing great based on my ratings and bookings. The cleaning fee is not hidden.

I would re-evaluate if I were not successful.

My existing solution of asking guests to pull the linens off their beds seems to be working great :).

I do go over the reasons in the automated message you receive the night before checkout.

I have 6 beds. Change 6 beds when one is used? Talk about energy use and wear/tear on the linens themselves.

Hotels have cleaning "scale" on their side. I'm also operating a large home with a full kitchen, balcony, garage, etc. 8 people can comfortably stay. It ends up being a LOT cheaper AND more comfortable than a hotel for 6-8 people.

Given my airbnb rating and constant positive feedback, I'd say that my existing solution is sufficient.

I'm a host. I charge a $200 cleaning fee and my cleaners charge me $250, so I lose money on cleaning.

I ask guests to:

* Strip the beds (otherwise, I find that people re-make beds and it's hard to tell if they have been slept in), * Load and start the dishwasher (the dishwasher takes 4 hrs, and the cleaners travel to my remote house, and I want to make sure they can finish in about that time) * Take the trash down to the garage (to avoid ants)

I pay a neighborhood kid to take the trash bins from the garage to the street on trash day.

I successfully manage my place remotely (3hrs away) via a good cleaner and home automation (detailed here: https://www.linquist.com/airbnb/automation). 4.99 stars, superhost.

As brilliant as Antirez is, he can't get his own valid SSL cert? :)

I can comment on Caltrain only, the location is available via the 511.org API.

I built a project that predicts how late trains are based on their current location vs historical averages and posts the data to Mastodon. https://caltrain.live.