Background dad’s bike which has happy sat out the frount of our house for the past 6 years was stolen a couple nights ago. managed to take the bike not wake up the dog or anything.
So I starting thinking how can I set of a alarm when people open the front gate or any gate which leads to our stuff.
So pretty simple hard hack
Requirements
- Door bell
- Magnetic Reed Switch NO (normally open)
Method
- Pull apart door bell switch, the part with the button on it.
- locate the button
- solder the Magnetic Reed Switch across the button so that if the switch is ON it shorts out the button.
- put back together.
Pictures will follow.
For those who don’t know magnetic reed switches are things you see on doors and windows where they actually installed a real security system
Install the door bell / switch tomorrow see how it goes.
Notes:
- With the HPM door bell it only rings once and doesn’t ring again until you’ve closed the gate and reopened it.
- Yes I know it would be much easier to secure the bike eg. not full view of the street or not locked up.
- Need to look at adding a override device so when you come home at 3 am in the morning you don’t wake the whole house.
Pulled apart door bell
Magentic Reed Switch (NO config)
Solder points on switch
Complete Unit
Last weekend I heard a talk by a missionary priest Father John who had to stop his work in Africa due to a heart condition and is how living a very relaxed life with the nuns out in Bolwarra.
During his talk he mentions intolerances towards other religions, and I suppose he thought as he was talking to a group of people from Maitland he’ll give us some Maitland History, and proceeded to tell us about a riot in the 1960 due to a Presbyterian minister giving a series of sermons said to be anti-catholic which upset the Irish Catholics at the time. I spent some time googling these riots and apparently it’s not just my neighbours who had no idea of Maitland past but the Internet as well. With the only reference I could find being from this website.
In 1860 he advertised a lecture on ‘The Heathenism of Popery, Proved and Illustrated’, which upset Irish Catholics and led to the famous Maitland riots, said to have involved over 1000 people. McIntyre was injured and seventeen prosecutions followed. [ http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A050190b.htm ]
It was an interesting story hard to believe in this day and age first being that there is 1000 pissed off catholic still in Maitland. Though I’m sure there are still some Anti-Catholic sermons out there still. but all church’s these days seem to at least refrain from publicly criticising each other.
If anyone else finds something else be sure to leave a comment.
Life is boring if things "Just Work" !
