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It’d be twice as costly with readers on both sides, and the bulk on the inside of my unit is mostly the battery, so you’d either have a much bulkier interior unit or a smaller battery, and if you’re close enough for face/NFC/whatever reader that wouldn’t false positive, you’re likely close enough to just unlock manually.

I was thinking maybe a downward projecting motion sensor so it could see you approach would be small and read an small enough area, but the first time a pet goes to the door, you’re unlocked unintentionally again! 😸

Yup, there are a number of low skill methods of entry for determined parties. Heck, Ive locked myself out before and have jimmied open windows 😅

I’m in a low crime area and grew up seldom locking doors, and I mainly got the smart lock for the wife’s peace of mind knowing that the door is always secure.

I like that LPL is clear there isn’t really a foolproof lock, and that as you said, you can strengthen it or delay it hopefully to the point someone will move to an easier target, but that’s about it.

I have a Tapo (TP-Link) lock, and I can sorta do it a few ways.

I think the issue with what you are wanting (approaching the door and it unlocking for you / geofencing) is that when you are home, your devices’ presence could or would be triggering it often throughout the day. It would either be annoying, constantly killing the battery in the lock, or worst case scenario, you go to check on a sound and approach the door, coincidentally unlocking it for an intruder.

What I can do with my lock is just manually unlock, set a time trigger to lock/unlock, tap a button in the app (which you may be able to put on your home screen?) or I can tell my smart speaker to unlock the door. There’s probably a few other options in forgetting. The main reason I have it is to let us know when the door doesn’t close all the way, to give a handsfree way to unlock when carrying stuff, and I have a trigger where if it’s between sunset and sunrise, it will turn on the indoor light for a set time after the door unlocks so you don’t stumble in blind.

To be fair, what lock has kept him out? If there’s not a tool that works in about 3 seconds, he has one made! 😁

Yay! I’m an exception!

I try to avoid being preachy or political, so I think that helps my case, even for those not much interested in animals, as crazy as that may be.

I post all my posts for the day in a block, so you’ll see me post 3-6 things and be done. It’s just easier for me. I post mainly educational content, so getting the posts out of the way all at once lets me just pop in during my breaks in the day to answer questions.

I don’t think I’m annoying, and if anything, if you don’t like my content, it keeps it in a relatively small range of your feed instead of it popping up multiple times. I figure I will annoy someone no matter what method I do it, so that’s what I’m going to stick with. After 3 years of doing it, you’ve either blocked me or you’re fine with it. 😁

Glad to help! It wasn’t something I had ever used, so it was interesting to check it out to verify it was what op was looking for.

I just checked and it indeed does.

they also make fun of other Americans with bad teeth. Mainly if you’re from the South or Alabama or some state.

I’ve heard a few radio contests where a local dental clinic will offer mouth makeovers as prizes. Of course the shows make the people do demeaning things, but every time they have done a follow up with the winners, it’s very bittersweet. They would always end up sobbing that their whole lives people have made them ashamed to smile, usually because they grew up poor and couldn’t afford to have their teeth fixed as kids.

I couldn’t imagine what it must feel like to have the simple joy of smiling taken away from you. It drives me crazy that dental care isn’t considered health care. Just being able to afford getting their teeth fixed sounded like it made such a huge difference in these people’s health and happiness, it seemed the equivalent of being able to treat a person go give them back hearing or sight.

It’s embarrassing we still withhold basic services from people and that so many will still condone mocking others for being born poor essentially like it was some dumb choice they made.

This comment isn’t directed at anyone here, the quoted remark just kinda triggered some memories for me of my journey to where I’m at now morally and politically.

Blue Parrotfish

Very interesting! I had one rescue cat I got from someone fostering her and she was a total sweety and I could do near anything to her. Then I took in 3 semi-feral neighborhood cats who where calm enough until I tried to give them any kind of medicine or trim their nails and would then have no issue biting me or scratching me up and then go hide for a while. Thankfully for all our sakes, they were all pretty healthy and long lived! 😆

You never know what you’re going to see! We get in animals I never even knew existed, or at least anywhere around here. We see a lot of bad injuries, some animal abuse, and a lot of death, but we also see a ton of miracles and the real spirit of survival.

Here is one of my polite patients from today (and a bit of its roommate’s rump! These two were very cooperative, but it’s been a year since I’ve done opossums, and I usually didn’t have to move them to clean them, so when I went to put these guys in the barrel while I cleaned their crate, they kept grabbing the lip of the barrel and I couldn’t get them all the way in! 😁 That tail is just as good as a fifth hand for a number of things.

The one I did after this was very jumpy and bitey (they can be somewhat shockingly fast in small bursts) and it tried to pee on me when I finally got it secured.

They’ve all got their own backstories they can’t share with us, so some have a tougher time coping with us. Feeling them calm down or drift off to sleep after we feed them is very satisfying.

It’s a bit tough in that they will never love me like a dog or cat, and they all eventually get let go to where I will never know if they have success in life or not, but I get to know I at least got them a second chance. They’re all beautiful and amazing creatures that I’d otherwise never get a peek into their lives the way I do by doing this.

I was a bit shocked when I read you had actual therapists coming! Getting a group together in itself is a great achievement, let alone getting therapists involved.

It’s sad that no men participate. Getting men mental help seems to be difficult, and I’m sure some would prefer having another man to talk to.

I volunteer doing wildlife rehab, and though almost everyone seems to say they love animals, that’s over 90% women led too. Come on guys, where you at?!

Very nice! One of the people from my wife’s group tried to have a thing afterwards where’d they’d meet and hang out, but they only had 2 or so meets before nobody was coming by.

Glad to see you doubling in capacity! Best of luck to both of you! ❤️ It blows me away how society would just be fine letting everyone fall through the cracks otherwise.

That is great you are able to facilitate that! My wife was in a DBT group during COVID, so I overheard some bits of stories from time to time.

Their group disbanded after something got shut down with the provider running it, and I worried about a lot of those people losing their people to talk to.

My wife’s story wasn’t so bad, so she was able to transition away from group, but some of the people in that group had it really tough.

I’m very grateful for DBT helping my wife get her life back in order after some huge setbacks, and now she is very successful in her daily life thanks in a huge part to that group. You are doing such a great thing making those services available to people!

I find that very impressive and important!

I work at a wildlife rehab, and today I got bit by a Screech Owl, an opossum, and 2 squirrels. None of that is pleasant, nor is it the first or last time, but after being bit by a lot of animals, I think on the whole, domestics may be worse.

My wild ones pretty much just want to get away from me, but I’m starting to think domestic animals seem to know that they don’t get the chance to escape us, and I think that takes away a lot of the “flight” and we get more “fight” as a result. I’ve been hurt way more by cats and dogs than anything wild.

Also, you getting them calmed down is very important to their future. If my animals hate me, that’s honestly their best outcome. But yours need to unlearn the hard lives they’ve had so they can be in safe homes. I, unfortunately, seem to be built physically like a lot of people that must abuse animals, since a lot of rescue dogs hate me and have given me some scars! 😅 Even my own rescue dog, after 10+ years never liked me as much as she liked my ex or current wife or any female stranger. Shed go to anyone else before me. She’d go to anyone else before me, even though she didn’t quite dislike me, that trust never quite showed up again.

Being able to work with the troubled animals is such an important skill, either to get them care, or in your case to make them able to be rehomed. Good for you for finding out a way to crack the code on these pups! Thanks to you they will get to be someone’s good boy/girl like they deserve!

It’s a depiction of my inner child 😁

Either end with the armrest. I like being tucked in the corner.

If it’s one of those sectionals that has the long chaise cushion, I’m taking that end and sitting on it like a bench.

Glad you’re enjoying it! Johnny Enzyme and I are trying to revive it.

It gives me a place to share great non-owl stuff I come across.

I’m a guy, but much of my childhood was being raised by both my grandmothers who thankfully both lived close by, and for different reasons, they were always my main role models growing up.

Nowadays I volunteer with wildlife rescue and rehab. The field is something like 90-95% women, so you can find strong and amazing women doing every single role, from rescue and transport to all the medical and surgical positions to fundraising and finance. Everyone is there because they are very caring and kind, but also all fiercely self sufficient and dedicated to what they believe.

It’s so awesome and inspiring to be surrounded by so many that embody all the spirit that I saw from both my grandmother’s, and they are my current role models now as a guy in his 40s. Anyone of any age or gender could find things to admire from these ladies I’d say.