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« Reply #15 on: October 11, 2011, 02:07:07 am » |
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purpse,
where do you get 1,5m accuracy with GPS using civil equipment? I rarely get the 15m
My HTC Wildfire seems to hit me right on the head each time... while outside... in an open parking lot. Well... it hit me right on the head in London, ducked behind tall buildings too. And while moving at 100 km/h by train. I must have the military version  |
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« Reply #17 on: October 11, 2011, 09:07:54 am » |
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Turn of GPS-A and your head will be save.
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« Reply #18 on: October 11, 2011, 03:17:11 pm » |
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I wonder if there is a way to "fine tune" the range by shielding the dongle in some way?
Most definitely. It's called a Faraday cage, and you could construct one around each room to contain its local bluetooth signal. Oh wait, you wanted a *practical* solution...  |
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« Reply #19 on: October 12, 2011, 02:17:04 am » |
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From a theoretical point of view, at one point I wanted to know about a GPS-like solution where you put your own "satellites" around your house, say... one in each corner of each room... 4 per room if your rooms are shaped like a regular upright parallelepiped. I haven't quite found an answer, but somehow I know an amateur radio-electro-geek could build a HPS (Home Positioning System) with stuff from Radio Shack. It can double up as a GPS jamming device if you use the same frequencies, and enough power and error correction to overcome the HPS jamming signal coming down from orbit. |
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« Reply #20 on: October 12, 2011, 04:58:20 am » |
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seeing as we are looking at options that are 'outside the box' you could set yourself on fire and use a 1-wire temperature sensor to detect you presence.
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« Reply #21 on: October 12, 2011, 05:10:03 am » |
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seeing as we are looking at options that are 'outside the box' you could set yourself on fire and use a 1-wire temperature sensor to detect you presence.
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« Reply #22 on: October 12, 2011, 09:45:06 am » |
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seeing as we are looking at options that are 'outside the box' you could set yourself on fire and use a 1-wire temperature sensor to detect you presence.
Lawl. Motion sensors combined with the continuous waving of your arms might be less painful. At least in the short-term. |
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« Reply #23 on: October 12, 2011, 04:45:34 pm » |
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It is quite obvious, that all you need is a kinect in every room, which has learned all occupants of the house, and LinuxMCE is using it for follow me.
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« Reply #24 on: October 12, 2011, 05:09:11 pm » |
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could you use wifi antennas at each corner of house and triangulate your phones position?
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« Reply #25 on: October 13, 2011, 09:04:52 am » |
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It is quite obvious, that all you need is a kinect in every room, which has learned all occupants of the house, and LinuxMCE is using it for follow me.
How feasible is this? |
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« Reply #26 on: October 13, 2011, 09:25:54 am » |
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