Hardware

This blogpost goes together with a video I made. You can check the video out by following this link

Before anything else, let’s first talk about the legality of doing this. I haven’t looked into it that much, but I know it isn’t permitted to broadcast on DAB+ frequensies if you don’t have a license or permit. However, the transmit power of the HackRF is so low, that the signal doesn’t even leave the room. I’ve also specificly looked for a DAB+ channel that isn’t being used in my area by checking out these helpful websites. Keep in mind that you’re responsible for your own actions.

Wow. Two posts in less then a week! I’m on a roll! Don’t get used to it though. I’ve only waited ountil the first day of the decade so nobody could say I didn’t post anything this decade. .

When someone talks about pagers, most people imagine old devices that were used before cell phones were a thing. They can be used to transmit numbers or short messages, mostly to tell someone to call a specific phone number.

The Eneco Toon is a thermostat by a Dutch power and gas company. It has a relatively large display for a thermostat and is also a touch screen. It let’s you view realtime information about your electricity and gas usage and can be controlled remotely if you subscibe to Eneco’s services… At least, that’s that Eneco want’s you to do.

I was looking for a thermostat that could be controlled remotely but I don’t need Eneco, Google or anyone else to know what the temperature in my living room is. Knowing I can root the Toon, I looked for one on Marktplaats and picked one up for a fair price. It’s the first version, so it’s a bit slow.

Snom phones ☎️ can do a lot of things. One of those things is displaying a ‘video’ 📹 feed from an intercom or a surveillance camera. With video I mean a lot of pictures 📷📷📷 after eachother. For that to work, the pictures need to be a certain size.

I own a Snom D785 and a Unifi UVC-G3 camera and obviously I wanted both to work together. Unfortunatly the Snom expects a certain size of pictures. The Unifi only spits out 1080p snaphots through the default snapshot url http://$IP/snap.jpeg. Does that mean it can’t be done?