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Overview

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Network rack with an old switch in the middle of two patch panels

The network consists of a cable modem feeding an OpenWrt router/AP, which in turn uplinks to the mezzanine Ubiquiti managed switch. From there, connections run to two loft patch panels: one Blue, one Grey. Each network drop in the space has a corresponding Blue and Grey jack; only some are wired through to the switch, and only some are currently used. The main table has a small managed switch.

Blue and Grey cables are functionally identical. The colours reflect physical routing rather than logical separation.

Static Devices

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Most fixed equipment uses static DHCP leases on the OpenWrt router. If you add a static IP address, give it a static DHCP lease on the openwrt router, even if the device doesn't use dhcp. These are the main devices:

Device IP Address
OpenWrt router 192.168.0.1
Home Assistant 192.168.0.2
Lazzor 192.168.0.4

Patch Panel Map

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Cabling map: Grey (left, top) ↔ Blue (right, bottom)
Grey device / location Switch port Label Switch port Blue device / location
Lobby black cable (unterminated) 1 1 Laser Loft 2 Lobby AP
Lazzor 3 2 Laser Room 4 Laser room computer
(unused) 5 3 Craft Shelf Arch 6 (unused)
(unused) 7 4 Craft Shelf Top 8 Payphone
(unused) 9 5 Cubesville 10 Denon AVR
Game of Life cube 11 6 Main Room Beam Front 12 Main table Ethernet (phone, switch)
(unused) 13 7 Main Room Beam Back 14 Main Room AP
(unused) 15 8 Tool Town L (breaker panel) 16 Sherline computer
(unused) 9 Tool Town R (shopbot) (unused)
(unused) 10 Mezzanine R (unterminated) (unused)
(unused) 11 Mezzanine L (unterminated) (unused)
(unused) 12 Main Room Couches (unterminated) (unused)

Unconnected Grey ↔ Blue runs: 13–24

Router

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Port Connected device
WAN Spectrum modem
LAN 1 (unused)
LAN 2 Mezzanine switch (uplink)

Mezzanine Switch

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The ports on the left are for the patch panel.

The SFP ports on the right are:

17 Home Assistant (purple) 18 Uplink (yellow)

The switch is managed through the Ubiquiti app in Home Assistant

  • OpenWRT setup
  • Ubiquiti setup

ESP32 near elevator door

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(TODO new page dedicated to space access controls)

Currently, there's a m5stack ATOM-Lite (very small) ESP32 board hanging above the elevator door/intercom/laser loft stairs area. This serves:

  • Elevator door sensor inside(?) maglock housing (it is a reed switch)
  • Keypad in elevator shaftway (a direct wired 4x3 key matrix on the end of a cat5 cable)

ATOM-Lite publishes these into HA, where the sensor states are used in various automations related to locks. I think it publishes the elevator door sensor state over Bluetooth (why?) and publishes codes entered into the keypad over MQTT. See the config in ESPHome though.

Wiring (rat nest) "diagram":

[Pictures are worth 1000 words, but only if you can upload them. --Ed]

jumpers:

  • ATOM-Lite GND <=> WAGO <=> white twisted pair a terminal <=> elevator door sensor (reed switch)
  • ATOM-Lite GPIO21 <=> white twisted pair other terminal <=> elevator door sensor (reed switch)
  • ATOM-Lite GPIO 23 <=> grey jacket cat5, green-white <=> keypad terminal 5 (col 3) [2]
  • ATOM-Lite GPIO 19 <=> grey jacket cat5, green <=> keypad terminal 6 (col 2)
  • ATOM-Lite GPIO 22 <=> grey jacket cat5, brown-white <=> keypad terminal 7 (col 1)

breadboard:

  • ATOM-Lite 3v3 <=> 1 kΩ pull-ups to each of GPIO 25,32,26,33 [1]
  • ATOM-Lite GPIO 25 <=> pull-up & grey jacket cat5, blue-white <=> keypad terminal 1 (row 1) [2]
  • ATOM-Lite GPIO 32 <=> pull-up & grey jacket cat5, blue <=> keypad terminal 2 (row 2)
  • ATOM-Lite GPIO 26 <=> pull-up & grey jacket cat5, orange-white <=> keypad terminal 3 (row 3)
  • ATOM-Lite GPIO 33 <=> pull-up & grey jacket cat5, orange <=> keypad terminal 4 (row 4)

[1] Without these strong external pull-ups, the ~2meter twisted pairs run to the keypad is too noisy for the matrix scanning to work. Ask me how I know. 3.3 kΩ is better than the 45 kΩ (?) on-chip pull-ups but still not enough.

[2] here, 4 rows and 3 cols of the physical keypad layout; the ESPHome config calls the physical columns "rows" (pins configured as strobed outputs) and calls the physical rows "columns" (pins configured as inputs)

"Shelly" near elevator door

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Switches 12v power to the elevator door maglock...