fluffy 💜Tomorrow I really need to work on some fucking music
ok I took 40mg of CBD, made some coffee, got a couple of chores I'd been putting off done, and now I'm sitting in my freezing recording studio waiting for the heater to stop my hands from freezing. i'm gonna make some music gosh darnit
I really need a better heating setup for my studio. I just have a tiny space heater under the desk that I have to manually turn on in person. would be nice to have, like, a thermostat that I can set via homekit or something, but I'm sure forced-air space heaters are enough of a fire hazard that such a thing doesn't exist
although some of those IR heaters they have for garages would probably work? put one on a smart switch and put a homepod or something in the basement
anyway the reason I want something homekit/matter/whatever-based is so that I can see from my home whether I need to turn it on, and do so, without being physically near it. The point is that my studio is in my basement which is very cold and accessed from the outside and so on, and I'd like to be able to have a warm studio by the time I get there instead of freezing my ass off for half an hour.
but also a 1500W space heater isn't really capable of heating the space up enough, like I got it up to 60°F in here which is still not great for working on music. Large unfinished basement with a lot of air volume doesn't lend itself particularly well to comfort in the winter.
I guess one thing I could do is get another Switchbot Hub 2, because it has a built-in thermometer and an IR blaster, and could do the correct button sequence to get my space heater in the correct mode (when I turn the heater on it defaults to the highest setting which is too much current for the circuit to handle) but those things are kinda expensive and the homekit/matter-enabled heaters I'm finding actually cost less and also have the heater in them :P
thadk@fluffy I have a nice little makeshift kotatsu desk. Got 300W 120V mountable unit on Amazon from Asia then found a suitable shape for regular height chair and a twin & king wool washable (hypoallergenic) blanket to insulate it. Ikea power sensor to light when it is on. Not perfectly ideal for hands except that heating most of your body heats them too to a significant extent.
@thadk Hm, that's a clever idea but I don't think that would work well in my recording studio context since I need to be able to move around and change instruments and such.