@pwm There's some message bus that uses mains AC as a carrier wave that's been around since the 70s. I don't remember the name of it, but I do remember that at least one person on fedi knows what it's called and he mentioned it at SPC Movie Night on the night when Dad showed a movie about appliances killing people and I don't think I wrote it down because I tried to find it a few weeks ago and could not.
@pwm Apparently, like, most microwaves and dishwashers and whatnot can exchange messages through it but not too many devices do anything interesting with it so just your appliances yell down the wire that the dishes are clean. It has a Wikipedia page but Wikipedia was useless when I tried to find it.
@p So I guess you put a box on your electrical panel that receives these messages and passes them on to your network? There's definitely some interesting shit there
Maybe BPL (Broadband over Power Lines)? X10 is from the 1970's, but BPL itself goes back as early as 1914. My neighbour's house is networked using homeplug, which I guess is the modern iteration of the concept. It works decently enough, and the devices are fairly inexpensive.
@toiletpaper@p > In 2007, the NATO Research and Technology Organization released a report which concluded that widespread deployment of BPL may have a "possible detrimental effect upon military HF radio communications."
tfw you turn the entire grid into an RF jammer to deny sigint to the enemy
> So I guess you put a box on your electrical panel that receives these messages and passes them on to your network? There's definitely some interesting shit there
Yeah, you can pick up and send messages. The idea was interoperability with early home automation systems, control the garage door from the intercom panel or get a blinking LED when the dishwasher was done or whatever.
@noyoushutthefuckupdad@judgedread No, I remember; I attended that night. It was a movie about how if you like 4chan and you think the woman next door is attractive, her husband will jizz on your face.
@noyoushutthefuckupdad@judgedread (I don't think we are going to agree on the quality of those two movies, relative to each other or in absolute terms; it stuck out in my mind because it was the only movie that you liked and that I hated; usually it's the other way around.)
@noyoushutthefuckupdad@judgedread Well, not unwatchable per se; I can't say that, I watched it. But it was like someone decided to make a collage of John Oliver monologues and take out anything that might pass as a joke.
> power line communication is so fascinating, idk when i first heard of it but i was like wHAT
Well, it's anything with a carrier wave, right? And power is like 60Hz.
I don't know why :wAhT: is "wAhT". I went looking in the theft directory and it doesn't appear anywhere besides the FSE directory so either it was stolen before I started bulk-stealing or it was suggested and I put it there, with the weird capital letters and everything, and I think I'd remember that. There must be a reason.