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[-] Nednarb44@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Well that was anticlimactic, but I appreciate the information

[-] Nednarb44@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

I'm probably missing something, but what are the two bumps in December and Feb from?

[-] Nednarb44@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Against some better judgement, I did direct burial. I did consider walkie talkies, but heard doesn't work well in a metal barn (I confirmed I basically have zero cell reception). I could look at adding the antenna though, thats not a bad idea.

[-] Nednarb44@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I appreciate the info and the offer! I won't be messing with the Ethernet since that's used for networking. I was mainly looking to hook up an IP phone or something easy, but assumed I couldn't just connect that to my network and needed something so the two phones would tie together.

[-] Nednarb44@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

That's fair, and yeah in hindsight would have been great, though tough to retrofit. Maybe I'll look into running another line for something like that. Thanks!

[-] Nednarb44@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Well in my scenario, both locations would be fixed, so I'm not really concerned about finding locations.

[-] Nednarb44@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Oh I'm sure I'm overcomplicating it. We had some landline phones growing up that could also ping and "intercom" but those were all connected to phone jacks with an active phone service, ao I figured I couldn't really do that. How is some like the one you mentioned wired? How does it talk to the the other one? Forgive my ignorance.

And to note, I definitely do not need high quality, just something local that is functional.

[-] Nednarb44@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I could I guess? What would that look like? Just mic and speakers wired over Ethernet and just always on but with a hardware switch or something? Or connected to something like a Raspberry pi running some software to talk with the other pi?

[-] Nednarb44@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

That looks pretty good. Looks like a lot of information to parse through, reading up now, thanks!

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I'm looking for a better, more private solution to an intercom I have between the house and my barn. I have Ethernet run out there, and I currently use the "drop-in" feature on some Amazon echo devices. I'm looking to get away from the Amazon devices entirely (maybe implementing the pine speaker they announced?)

I don't have a lot of requirements, though VoIP would be preferred over a radio style, since it's a metal barn and blocks a lot of signals. I'm good with some self hosted solution, and ideally there's a dedicated device, as I don't want to use my phone or computer for it all the time. I'm probably missing some obvious solution, but figured I'd try to get some ideas together.

Thoughts?

[-] Nednarb44@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I'm not sure, but it does have its own algorithm for swipe and things like that, with it's own library from what I understand

[-] Nednarb44@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Bloated in what way?

[-] Nednarb44@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

A few months after that they'll release YouTube quix or something. Up to 45 second videos! Then extend shorts to 6 min, quix to 2.5 min, then add YouTube micros! Videos up to 25 seconds! Brilliant!

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