Mark Gjøl

Coder, photographer, grump. Average Home theater nut.

Been at programming professionally since 2007, currently trying to get to keep doing it rather than getting stuck in meetings. Once was Java, dabbled in Android (Floating Image notable mention), now focused on C# and Azure. Clean, maintainable code and doing the right things right is my jazz (or techno or metal).

Posts in Danish if only relevant to Denmark, English if relevant generally.

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Joined 2 years ago
Cake day: November 14th, 2023
  • Mark Gjøl@mstdn.dktohomeassistant@lemmy.world•Today, enjoy your self-hosted home automation
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    15 days ago

    @AA5B So we got the best locks we could get from the supplier, which supposedly are hard to pick, cannot be picked and cannot be copied without a key card (not sure how that works). Our doors and windows are enforced. We had one person comment that he rarely saw houses that were this secure (but then he wasn’t a security guy, just a buildings guy). On top of that we have cameras, an alarm system and fog canons.

    It would be convenient to have a smart lock, and I would love to be able to detect if doors are locked or open (Having this as a read-only thing would be perfect), but being a software guy I don’t trust the lock to not be hacked or simply malfunction. The alarm system (ADC) is already obviously made by amateurs, but seems to get the job done…

    Overkill? Definitely! But my wife worked in insurance and is super coloured by the stories she’s heard.

  • Mark Gjøl@mstdn.dktohomeassistant@lemmy.world•Today, enjoy your self-hosted home automation
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    17 days ago

    @Sxan @Cyber I don’t like smart locks because I don’t trust them. I’m afraid someone is able to hack them. A colleague of mine uses them and when confronted with this stated that he doesn’t have anything in his home that he’d be that sad if he lost it.

    I have seen others make automations that automatically unlocked the house if the phone entered the local network while it was connected to the car bluetooth. While that’s convenient I don’t want to automate security. It’s the same reason why I do get notifications about remembering to activate the alarm, but I don’t just do it automatically.