Friday, February 2, 2018

2018 Update

Home renovations were made in the winter of 2017-18.  New floors, painting, new kitchen counter, backsplash, and home automation. 

With the TV in our bedroom and other devices, we needed to add another wired ethernet to our east bedroom wall.  We now have four hub/switches connected to our cable modem.  Most items are hard-wired to our 10-100 network.

One of the great things from the renovation is all the home automation.  Almost everything can be controlled by Alexa.  The blinds go up and down on voice command (and schedule), the TV can turn on (and change channels), lights can turn on/off, and the sweepers can be deployed.  All by voice command!

With so many wireless devices now, we had some trouble since the wireless router had a limit of number of concurrent devices.  Two repeaters, three desktops, five (or more) laptops, six or more alexas, five (or more) tablets.  Nothing too fancy or new, but it adds up.

The SteamLink and Steam Controller are pretty nice to sit in the den and play on the big 4K TV from the couch.  That was nice.






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