Bauhaus concrete villa with core insulation - experiences

I did write that it takes a long time for something like this to happen. Mrs. Merkel is certainly something different from the average neighbor…

Especially in neighborhood relations, one is operating within private law. This rarely ends up in the press unless it involves celebrities.

It’s just a weird feeling when there are cameras hanging around and you don’t know what they’re filming. Can you roughly estimate how far good cameras can capture good images?

Most surveillance camera owners are not completely crazy, and therefore won’t save a "24/7 video diary of the neighborhood" in uncompressed HD until the end of time. So, assuming the neighbors’ cameras catch you picking your nose on the balcony – they usually do so in the typical XY-unsolved video quality, and if nobody breaks in at the neighbors’ within the next 48 hours, it won’t be preserved for posterity either. A life without paranoia is possible :)

By the way, what was the line in that one Hollywood movie? "Just because you were diagnosed with paranoia doesn't mean no one is after you...".

Most surveillance camera owners are not completely nuts

Most neighbors aren't either ;) . I also installed 4 cameras at the beginning of the year and the neighbors I expected something from didn't react at all. One neighbor, whom we also know quite well privately, had the pictures shown to him once, but I think more out of interest. The neighboring properties are all blurred out for us. I also deactivated the pan function in the app, so I can see the important areas and panning always distorted the detection area. Sure, I could now adjust that in the settings via PC. But why?

So, I’m done with the thread as well, nothing has happened here for a while - so I’m bringing it back up :)
Congratulations , very nice house and I hope life continues to be good in it!

Since I can’t contribute much at the moment (except that for our renovation two years ago I also extensively dealt with the technology including KNX and DALI, network/Unifi etc. and have had similar experiences in many respects regarding the personal effort in planning and on-site as rick has made) I still have 4 questions for rick and a tip for grill enthusiasts with a flair for Swiss products (and so I can find this thread again when hopefully someday I build a second time and need some ideas) :D

Questions:
1.) You once explained in some detail what you would do differently: do you have a “current” list of topics you/you all would do differently after living in it for 2 years?
2.) Because it was initially discussed so extensively and then nobody asked anymore: would you build the toilets the same way again?
3.) What kind of switches/room controllers do you have? Have you also looked at Basalte? In my opinion, that would fit well with you (we enjoy our sentidos and ellies in brushed brass)
4.) Could the APs also be installed under the suspended acoustic ceiling, or would there be a possibility to realize a possibly invisible “service” access (and if yes, why didn’t you do that, since with wood and enough APs that shouldn’t significantly reduce the performance)?

And last but not least my tip, in case a new or additional grill is needed (I don’t have one yet but have seen one in operation and they are very high-quality made): just google “azado grill,” they come from St. Gallen and are derived from the Argentine asado. The trick with this grill is, among other things, that it can be fired with gas, charcoal, or wood (and e.g. with the gas burner the charcoal can be ignited when you don’t want to use gas).

Most surveillance camera owners are not completely crazy, and therefore will not save a "24/7 video diary of the neighborhood" in uncompressed HD until the end of time. So assuming the neighbors' cameras record you picking your nose on the balcony – they usually do so in the typical XY-undetermined video quality, and if no one breaks in at the neighbors within the next 48 hours, it won't be preserved for posterity either. A life without paranoia is possible :)

Not to make a huge deal out of this...
Is one already paranoid nowadays if one doesn’t want to be filmed by their neighbor while sunbathing on the terrace?

I mean, if someone films me like a walrus, there’s nothing I can do about that anymore, I get that.

But it becomes different when, in a few years, my teenage daughter is lying there in a bikini. If then the neighbor’s camera is pointed at her, I wouldn’t find that so funny anymore. Do I know if that nerdy neighbor boy is sitting at the other end? And what does he do with the video material? The father doesn’t have to know anything about what sonny boy is doing with his surveillance.

Everyone can think for themselves whether they want their daughters to be filmed by other people while sunbathing... as just one example among many.