Thanks I'll keep on eye out on the quadro cards. Hadn't heard of grays online auctions. Cheers.
innercitadel
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Yeah looks like I'll be waiting for a sale and buying new.
Not sure. But I often see people recommending buying a second hand dell optiplex or similar for home servers, and it doesn't seem to make economical sense here. But don't have any objective data to offer, just an impression.
Interesting point about trademe listing vs actual sale prices.
But then don't you end up having to subscribe two or more different providers? Or is there a particular monthly provider that has incredible availability? I have block accounts with three different providers.
Oh cool. I'm going to try the temp sensors. Thank you!
I installed ducted air con and instead of having a separate system for ventilation, for cost effectiveness I routed it from the outside through the air con system. So the aircon pulled the air from both the return vent in the house (90%) and from the outside (10%). You only need a small amount of mechanical airflow from the outside to reduce moisture levels. And had another vent hole with cover on the soffit for future but not ducted into the air con.
What is something simple to start with if getting into HA? I already have a NAS.
I have an unused Pi4 4GB model lying around, I might try run HomeAssistant on it. Sounds like a fun project.
Do you have any old x86 computers lying around?. I am running a NAS serving a dozen docker containers and a VM on an ancient 4th gen intel cpu. I never got into the home assistant stuff but maybe I'll also give it a go! I use PhotoView to share photos with family through CloudFlare zero trust tunnel.
Positive pressure is definitely not as good. But if you plan ahead you can always modify into a balanced system later. In my last house when I installed positive pressure I also added an additional vent in the soffit in case I wanted to turn it into a balanced system in the future. But the positive pressure solved the condensation problem so didn't end up upgrading to balanced. You could also do balanced without mechanical heat recovery.
Maybe as an experiment try blow a fan pointed out an open window and see if it makes any difference to the humidity?
Oh that's a slightly different thing I think. It is referring to ventilating the attic with the outside. Not ventilating the attic with the living space which is what the DVS/HRV thing is. Ventilating the attic with the outside is generally a good thing for various reasons. I might have messed up the terminology. But I don't think attic ventilation between the attic and outside will solve your problem.
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Get a static ip if at all possible. The work arounds with a dynamic IP are simply not as good. Or if your ISP and router fully support IPv6 you could alternatively go down that route.