By main door, do you mean the "inner" door (within the building, to our suite)?
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Colin Stanners <[email protected]> wrote: > *someone removed the (black?) ethernet cable from the lounge switch > to the switch near the classroom, possibly while attaching the cables > to the roof - please DO NOT remove infrastructure like that! There`s > enough work to do already, I expect whoever did that to reinstall it > ASAP. > > *if anyone has a spare 12V bell / buzzer I could use that for the doorbell. > > *should information like this go on announce@ as well? > > > Internet Connection: > > We`re still getting internet from the dish at Adelaide until VOI has the > time > to donate/install service at Sksp2. I had setup a 5.4ghz link between both > buildings to feed Sksp2 but that frequency can have issues - it`s a radar > band and the radios are required to shut down for 1-30mins in the "rare" > case > that they detect radar (didn`t use 2.4ghz due to likely interference or > 5.8ghz > because VOI was using that at sksp1). Something along this radio path > was constantly triggering the radar detect (buildings reflecting the > airport > radar? Police leaving theirs on as they drive around?) and shutting the > link off. > Tweaking it just made it a bit better or worse, so in the end I just > changed the > equipment to a 2.4ghz link, it`s slower (14mbit) but fixes the issues. > > > Card Access: > > Thor, Adrian and I spent 13hrs combined (over the last 24hrs) to run 6 > cables > through carved-out baseboards / metal doorframes / 100 years of dirt to the > front door (4x cat5 for card access / indoor cam / outdoor cam / spare, 2x > 18- > guage pairs to power the strike even in cold weather and for the outside > camera > heater). This fixes the front door reliability issues; the door "beta" is > almost > finished, just need to make it pretty by putting the cables in channels and > painting those channels the right colours. > > After that I`ll run a cable channel from the Sksp2 main door to the area > above > the bathrooms where the card access panel will be installed, carrying all > the > previously-mentioned cables and the cable for the sksp2 main door. > > For the cameras - AW is ready to donate some spare security cameras to us, > but they don`t know how many that would be until the constructions is done > (weeks?). The company for whom I do part-time camera/security installs has > boxes of old cameras, I`ll arrange to get some of those tested and usable. > > I do not yet have a timeframe é final plan to make the main door > manually-openable > (other than paying a locksmith $500+), may have time during Christmas > break. > > Let me know if anything else is needed. > -C > > _______________________________________________ > SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List > Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss > Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ >
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