Fairly boring commentary from an oversensitive, emotionally demanding computer nerd (with a not-so brand-new 4-year-old, and two cats)
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June 14, 2003
Well, OK, at least that worked
Sometimes home projects seem to take on a life of their own, as in Dr. Frankenstein's creation, I mean.
Today one actually was pretty easy -- installing a remote control for the ceiling fan in our bedroom. Yes, a real lazy person's item, but the regular switch for the fan was broken anyway, and now we have a dimmer for the light (which are extra-bright not because the new light kit also put up today has 4 60-watt bulbs -- a little too much sometimes without the dimmer).
The receiver in the remote control kit (made by Hunter) just barely fit into the fan's canopy, but it made it.
The first time I fired it up for testing -- nothing. This really puzzled me -- how could it totally not work? Turns out that the DIP switches in the unit got nudged to another channel when it was being installed, so the remote did nothing. Easy to fix, at least.
Something not so easy -- getting a SIP softphone on my Linux laptop to work. I have two -- linphone and kphone. Both receive from the other end (a Cisco ATA box hooked up to a phone), but they send completely garbled audio. I think it is a problem with the sound on the laptop. Well, the idea of this project is to learn more about voice over IP, so I guess I'm doing that ...
Posted by markj at June 14, 2003 12:08 PM
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