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Re:Smart home devices should work without the internet by mmmlinux on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @12:49PM (#50443652)
Here's what you do. Skip the detector, Just put the whole laptop in there. when it goes offline, You have water in the sump.
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Re:Smart home devices should work without the internet by JoshTriplett on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @12:56PM (#50443732)
Very much in the spirit of the "weather stone": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_rock
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Re:Smart home devices should work without the internet by goodmythical on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @01:16PM (#50444024)
I haven't figured out how to recieve pings from my weather stone, I've always got to get up and look out the window, which, then I can just see the weather.

Anyone made any progress on rooting it?

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Re:Smart home devices should work without the internet by bee_rider on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @01:44PM (#50444426)
You don’t need to root your weather stone. You’ll want to root your weather tree. Rooted weather trees give you better long term data (if the tree is flourishing, the weather was nice all season). Unrooted weather trees just let you know if it was raining in the last couple days (still an upgrade over a weather stone, but not by much).
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Re:Smart home devices should work without the internet by wafflemaker on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @01:49PM (#50444487)
To root it you need the special USB version, called USB pet stone.

You can then flash new firmware over USB.

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Re:Smart home devices should work without the internet by subscribed on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @02:32PM (#50445117)
Just shine a laser on it?
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Re:Smart home devices should work without the internet by Uncle_Brumpus on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @01:21PM (#50444120)
"...And so that's how I ended up with a $14,000 basement repair. Yup, those damn chromebooks are more waterproof than you'd think! I mean it makes sense, they're designed to be vomited on by children all day at school."
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Re:Smart home devices should work without the internet by knodi123 on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @02:48PM (#50445373)
Anyone can build a working sump flood detector. But it takes a real engineer to build one that can detect two floods.
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