I just moved and I live literally window to a freight train line, unfortunately it scares the crap out of my cats and so I’m trying to find out what the schedule is so that I can close the windows for them, and maybe put a little raspberry pi display screen saying something like “next train arriving in…” Next to my window

  • TechnoguyficationEnglish
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    2 months ago

    You could, but if this is taken from another window in the same building you’ll likely only get ~10 seconds of warning.

    If you could put a couple cameras a mile or so down each direction on the track you could get an earlier warning system

    • yokonzo@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      2 months ago

      This is taken from my window, and I’m not sure how I feel about leaving expensive equipment out in a suburban area for anyone to pick up and run off with