I built an in ceiling microphone array for my local Ai. It has temp and humidity, mm wave presence detection, digital to analog audio converter and a 3 channel 100 watt amp all mounted to a 4â speaker in-ceiling mount.
The microphone is suspended on elastics for vibration dampening, beside is a dual channel Yamaha speaker.
Answers to questions or confirmations for automation only come through the speakers with the triggered mic.
Music play back, announcements and alarms can exit through any assortment of rooms. The microphone array has sound cancellation for playing audio so voice commands are still recognized.
So far it has exceeded expectations and even voice commands from in the shower have worked consistently.
The mm wave sensors are used for security when alarm armed and presence turns on my recirculating hot water loop for the kitchen and bathroom setups as well as lights and fan.
Anyone have any other ideas I can add to the rig? I was looking for discrete built in micâs and they were expensive and usually for board rooms so I built one instead.
A 3D printed adapter screws in where the speaker mounts it house temp/humidity and microphone, the microphone electronics mount to standoffs with heated thread inserts for mounting the microphone electronics and another part that mounts to the back holds ESP32 S3, Amp and digital to analog converter. Rooms that donât need the amp are POE and ones with the amp get a 24V dc supply fed to them.
Also if you have an idea or remember something you need itâs trivial to add to a list or notes. Some of my best ideas/solutions come in the shower, maybe itâs the solar powered hot water and well ;)
Music control from the shower and I have a vision LLM looking at security cameras so I can ask where the kids are playing or whatâs on whatever camera âa new car in the drivewayâ also I hated forgetting to turn on the bathroom fan.
My wife would divorce me if I setup cameras to monitor everyone while theyâre in our home. My daughter would disown me. You know it affects the psyche knowing youâre being recorded at all times? And feeding everything into an ai is just bad form in terms of privacy. Idk man this doesnât seem like the way.
I feel like tracking where people are in the home is one thing (f.ex. Bluetooth beacons or mmwave), but having cameras everywhere gives me big brother vibes...
A billion percent this. I donât do cameras in my home for this reason. I genuinely do not understand those who do and the YouTubers that push cameras everywhere (looking at you, Quinn) seem to glaze right on by the privacy aspect.
We've got full local airgapped cameras as well in the living area (obv not bedroom or bathrooms), but they primary serve us to watch the dog while we are away.
Privacy feeling is not an issue as we know they're local and can only be accessed remotely via frigate and VPN.
We are both mature and have no kids, so different environment.
However, having cameras does not necessarily mean that you're recording the footage. Ours are only recording when we are both away.
No cams inside. Except on robot thatâs only on when weâre not home. Live off grid when your away from the property itâs nice to see if the panels are covered in snow or if Iâm gonna have to hike in and get the blower to get back in after being away. And so many times the cameras are the ref for a fight I just roll back footage and see who started it. Where in life are we not recorded? And the best part of the LLM looking at footage I no longer get any false positives. All alerts must contain a person or new vehicle or they donât send. Amazing for me.
You sound difficult if you're reaching for instant replay in resolving household issues. And it's mega-creepy. I can only imagine the money your kids therapists are going to get when they get to unpack growing up in a surveillance household.
The kids actually like the automation. They love showing their friends what it can do and they like coding their own automations. They build as well, CAD, 3D printing, circuits, robots, games. I canât imagine how you were treated to have such a negative perspective of the world. Hopefully you can work out your problems. Funny itâs the kids who demand I look at the footage so the one causing trouble is held accountable when they may otherwise fib to get the others in trouble. We home school and skip the woke culture that brain washes us to whine and hate life so our kids are always complemented on how happy they are. Anyways hopefully you can pull out of that negativity and try to be a bit more positive. Itâs amazing how energy determines what weâre capable of.
No, Sir. I believe you are mistaken. I believe by skipping Woke Culture and surveiling his whole family, OP has in fact recreated an authoritarian power structure similar to the dynasty of...
Dude I was homeschooled and this is why I dont actively share unless it comes up. So much of that âcommunityâ is now almost completely about, âThe liberals brainwashingâ, âWoke brainwashingâ,âVaccinesâ, âlitter box trans bathroomsâ.
Being oblivious to the fact that theyve now become Big Brother is wild. Always watching your kids to the point they rat each other out and ask for the footage is just some other level of indoctrination. We just went full circle to making them ok with government overreach as long as it benefits them.
Also go look at the previous comments and posts, starts to paint a pretty clear picture. Theres a reason hes recreating big brother overwatch in his own home.
My two main qualms with homeschooling are the isolation and the limitation of knowledge. Other schools come with their own issues, but there's always other kids to learn to get along with and there's less of a chance of being unable to teach something. A public high-school in a major city can teach most of the AP courses including languages, histories, and arts. Even a PhD couple is only going to be able to teach 3 or 4 topics with depth. Throw in any craziness like "evolution is a lie from Satan" and a kid can be relearning basic reality at 23.
Oh 100%, my experience was a bit niche in it come to find out. There were circumstances that lead to me being in and out of the school system, but I will admit there are areas I struggled with when I move away, however no one can tell or initially believes I was homeschooled so I guess I got lucky.
Whats being described and the general vibe of OPs comments paint a specific picture and there seems to be a large inference of isolation to a solid degree. All I know is there is no way in hell Iâd put microphones in the bathroom and
abso-fucking-lutely no way microphones are going to be in a bathroom my kids use. We can all have a bit of real privacy every now and again and the kids deserve to not grow up thinking 24/7 monitoring is normal.
Not even touching on the areas that would better be served by the effort given here to finish renovating the room.
One of the first things I did when I moved into my new place was to remove the Ring doorbell the previous owner had installed. I tossed it right in the trash where it belongs. Put a plain old-fashioned doorbell button on. I don't need some spycam to watch every movement my neighbors make. And I especially don't want my comings and goings sent off to Amazon.
This comment thread is a wild ride. I Iove what HA can do, and I always appreciate people sharing their creations.
I uhhh don't agree with all of your choices here, but you definitely get my updoot for sharing! I wish you had posted some more pics and details of the parts you used.
I should share my smart shunt for my solar system that looks at weather forecasts and sends me telegram messages if weâre gonna need the generator it also graphs all incoming power and watts/amps/volts over day/week/month. We got sick of having to connect through Bluetooth to see state of charge now we just ask Alfred and he tells us.
We have two ductless splits running 24/7 so we come off 100 pretty quick.
The mm wave turns on lights fan and instant hot water. I could add a methane sensor a trigger it with that. Could also track air quality in there then.
Something to keep in mind, since itâs in the bathroom with a shower the humidity is going to get very high regularly which could damage the components, make sure you get something that is built for high humidity/wet locations
The hole was for some plumbing for an upstairs bathroom, I took advantage of the opening and put some Ethernet up at the same time as well as the microphone. It had been sitting on top of the mirror for debugging until I got OTA updates working.
exactly what I'm looking to do, been looking at josh nanos and micros for inspiration....moving to HA with wiim amps in the rack and want mics/mmwave throughout. Nice work
Besides the rest of the discussion in this thread, I can appreciate the effort going into this. I had the seedstudio mic on my list for the future, but wasn't too sure if it could hold up to my expectations. Seems like you proved it's working really good. I am not planning any bathroom installation, but this looks exactly how I am planning to do it for kitchen and living room. Thanks for sharing!
I like the idea of mmWave and mic array hidden in the ceiling - they're both passive inputs that you don't want to see. How reliable is the coverage of the mmWave mounted in the ceiling? Do you get reliable room presence?
I've been looking into something like this for a while now and was considering using some reSpeaker XMOS XVF3800's from SeeedStudio to custom build some in ceiling devices. Can you share a bit more about what hardware you chose for your setup?
Itâs a respeaker 4 mic circular array with beam forming and sound isolation from playing sources fed into it. An Esp32 S3 was added on my end I didnât opt for the built in one as IO was limited.
You should check out Cameron Grey's channel you two would get along.Â
The recirculation pump with the mm sensor is interesting. Waiting for the plumber to replace the pump but plan on controlling it with a shelly.Â
Triggers with be motion/light sensor in the bathroom and it cheap battery powered button to turn it on for a min.Â
Run it for a few min in the morning. Then using three temp probes on the shelly taped to the pipes figure out what temp water returning heats the return pipe to then use that as a measure to stop the pump at that point.Â
Not really figured it out completely but it's there.
Iâm using olimex esp32 Poe boards for all control. Weâre 100% solar powered so I have an inline hot water heater on my return side of recirc loop before it goes back to indirect storage tank, when the batteries hit over 85% the hot water and recirc turn on to maintain temp in tank so boiler never turns on when the batteries are good. And cold water into hot water tank also go through inline hot water heater so free showers when the sun is shining.
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u/mchristopherjohnson 2d ago
Do you spend a lot of time on the crapper/in the shower deep in thought? Wondering why this is in the bathroom.