The sound of trickling water is triggering to beavers. Literally. If they hear water running, they have to turn it off.
They are the ultimate dads of the animal Kingdom.
I’m sure if they evolved in an environment with electricity, they’d be going from room to room turning off light switches.
They are the ultimate dads of the animal Kingdom.
I’ll have you know, I let my bathtub drop for a year before fixing it
I’m sure if they evolved in an environment with electricity, they’d be going from room to room turning off light switches.
…Well if someone else in this damn house would ever turn them off I wouldn’t have to now would I?
My step kid literally turned on the kitchen, dining, hallway, and bathroom light after I went to bed and left them on. Cue grumpy ass me turning off lights after my late night pee. The hallway light alone is enough to light up every single one of those rooms for grabbing whatever you need before bed, the switch is five feet from their bedroom and I have a switch in my bedroom for it as well. So of course that couldn’t be the only light left on. Rant over
Not sure how much into electronics you are, but you could setup Home Assistant to automatically control your lights and/or use motion sensors.
I’ve got presence sensing within one device or another in probably every room. I’ve never messed with the templates for this kind of stuff. I wrote some basic scripts a few yrs ago but since rebuilding HA from scratch (bought mini pic, tired of rpi sad burning out) a few months ago, haven’t done anything interesting. Did you write yours manually?
Currently I don’t have any mmWave sensors outside of my ecobee thermostat so I haven’t gone as far as creating lights based on presence. Currently I just use timers, adaptive lighting, and have a couple night lights using PIR sensors and a timer. I have been wanting to get some mmWave sensors but haven’t found anything that fits the bill as I want something with an ambient light sensor, mmWave sensor, temp sensor, etc. I have seen the Everything One from Everything Smart Home but at $65 each, I’d be spending a few hundred at least.
Also if you ever want to go back to your RPi, you can use an SSD as your boot drive. I have mine running off this so that I don’t have to use a crappy SD card.
Yeah, I have 500 backups in g drive, NAS, local, etc now lol
Are you using the template scripts?
🦫: God Dammit!
God: ???
🦫: Fine! I’ll do it myself!
A beaver (or beavers?) moved into the creek deep in the woods behind my house last fall, and I am SO excited about the beautiful pond they are building.
Where can I subscribe to regular updates on their progress?
We’ve had a couple good rains, transforming what used to be a muddy creekbed into a clearly defined pond!
I will report back in a few weeks with more pictures! Also will probably be spamming them all over Lemmy because I just cannot shut up about how cool they are 😅
I LOVE beaver dams! And you get to observe how the ecosystem changes over time. I’m mad jealous.
There’s one by the Navy base trails, but the little fuckers built a new one upstream that you can’t see from the official path. But you can still clearly see how the entire area changed into a pond/swamp. There’s another by my camp, but I can’t get there anymore without dire “PRIVATE PROPERTY” signs having gone up.
It’s definitely getting swampy after a couple rainstorms, there’s almost knee-deep standing water in some parts!
Yes! The ecosystem changes are what I’m most excited about. Not so much the mosquito swarms the next year or two, but once the rest of the food chain moves in it’ll be wonderful! I have seen a heron a couple times in the swampier parts of the creekbed and if he becomes a consistent visitor to the area I’ll be over the moon.
