Maker uses Raspberry Pi and AI to block noisy neighbor’s music by hacking nearby Bluetooth speakers::Roni Bandini is using a Raspberry Pi to power his AI-driven assault against his neighbor’s regular 9am reggaeton music.
Idk maybe go over and knock on the door and have a conversation about it?
Seems easier.
From my experience, people this noisy are unlikely to be cooperative about it. Or anything else
This has been my experience too. A random party w/ friends that rages until the next morning after 2 months of silence? Sorry, didn’t mean to be that loud. We’ll keep it down next time, let you know in advance, & even extend an invite. An every 3rd day blasting of music at whatever hour? Fuck you, I pay rent, I don’t care if it bothers you.
I’ve found the opposite.
A lot of people don’t understand just how paperthin those walls are or they come from an environment of “there will be noise”. If someone actually, politely, asks them to keep it down during reasonable hours, then people usually will.
The issue is when people pound on the door as though the noise maker is the greatest asshole ever. That triggers spite. Same with unreasonable demands.
Like, if someone asks me to keep it down at 10 PM? I will apologize like hell and turn it down. You ask me to keep it down at 9 am? I will probably tell you to go fuck yourself and explain that you live in an apartment building and there is going to be noise.
Fun story time! One of my exes was very much “the loud neighbor”. Clomping around in heavy slippers at all hours of the night, playing loud music, turning up her tv, having a subwoofer in an apartment, etc. After I realized and felt bad I had an awkward talk like “hey… have any of your neighbors ever complained? Because if this were my apartment they would hear this god awful lawyer show from the lobby”. She didn’t believe me so I told her to just step out into the hallway and then she was MORTIFIED. Immediately turned down everything and unplugged the sub. Even wrote up a nice letter that she taped on all her neighbors’ doors to apologize.
Within a week there had been a complaint filed against her for “vandalizing” someone’s door… by taping an apology note on there.
Good times.
You ask me to keep it down at 9 am? I will probably tell you to go fuck yourself
Ah yes, YTA then.
Within a week there had been a complaint filed against her for “vandalizing” someone’s door… by taping an apology note on there.
I’ve seen tape rip paint off when it’s removed. The door has to be removed, sanded back (the entire door, not just where the tape was… because door paint fades and you can’t match the color). A door needs three coats of hard wearing slow drying paint - has to dry overnight between coats… making it a four day job.
Worst of all, the door has to be horizontal while the paint dries - so that’s four days with no front door. Not an option. They will usually just replace the door and that can cost thousands (but at least it won’t leave you without a front door for days).
If you want to leave a note for someone - use the letterbox.
Good times.
Yeah see that shit just isn’t worth it. I had a neighbour threaten to pour milk into a work colleague’s car door once. Car doors are full of noise insulation material that would have soaked up the milk and gone mouldy/started to stink. Costs a fortune to fix that.
Best thing to do in my opinion is call the police, anonymously. If it’s not worth a formal complaint then it’s not worth complaining at all.
Car doors are hollow mate.
How do you expect all the mechanisms for door locking/unlocking/opening and windows to fit in there?
Might be some rubber sound deading mat stuck to one side on a really high in car, but theres nothing absorptive inside the door.
I put a note on a neighbors door about her dog that was scratching at the door, and making the door wobble, which made the whole building shake. She put a note taped to her own door rambling about abuse and how she would call the police, etc.
When she was eventually evicted, they had to tear up the entire place, leaving the windows open to air out for over a month before they could rent it again.
Maybe who complained for the apology note prefers a good shotgun to solve his/her neighborhood matters
Might be. Wouldn’t know until you try, though.
I have a schizophrenic alcoholic 60y troll of a woman (like troll, physically) living upstairs. Always banging, screaming, listening to shitty drinking songs on a loop.
But I went over. Several times.
Now I just wear earplugs, take benzos and occasionally think about picking up my hammer and going for another “talk”. I thought about milder options as well. Superglue in her keyhole? Then she’d have to call a locksmith, and she’s not capable of holding a conversation long enough to convey she needs one.
Wish she had bt speakers I could hack, but that’d probably just make her scream more.
And the landlord won’t do shit after years of me sending videos of this loony.
Get your own speakers. Point them up. Play the Doom OST.
This can be everyone’s problem, not just yours.
Oh I have them. I don’t think she’s ever heard them over the sound of her drinking songs, screeching and the demons screeching in her head.
I thought if some official person ever saw her, she’d fly out. So that’s why I thought glue in the keyhole, so she has to call a locksmith (which I’m sure she won’t manage) and then that person will see into her apartment. Where I don’t know what the shit she does, bangs and drills and jumps all day. It’s like she’s woodworking or something every wednesday.
Landlord doesn’t give a shit. I’ve sent videos and doesn’t even go check her.
I’d love to get my subwoofer screwed tightly to the roof and then just turn that on for lulz when she gets crazy. Which is pretty much everyday. But then when will I have peace?
Haven’t read a single book while living in this apartment.
Dude in my apartment complex was murdered for asking his neighbor to turn their music down. The civil option doesn’t work when the other party isn’t civil, unfortunately.
People like this can be unstable. I had to live next door to someone like this. After another neighbor demanded that someone to turn down their music. That someone later on started throwing rocks at my house.
The schizophrenic makes so much noise upstairs that my drunken downstairs troll of a neighbour (but like, half-troll, compared to the upstairs one) came banging on my door one night while I was sleeping.
This building sucks but I haven’t the money to move.
Oh and “can be unstable”? No. She is. Very much. I’m not calling her schizophrenic. She is. Like I know that for a fact, I was once in the pharmacy when she got her pills, I know about meds, and you can’t really get much stronger schizophrenia medication without being in a hospital.
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hmmm … what if your intorvert 🙁
What if my introvert?
what if hour introvert!
What if were introverted?
I tried this, once.
There was 3 gunshots from what sounded like inside the place before my knuckles hit the door, and I turned around and ran the fuck back home.
This isnt the 1950s. Asking assholes to have some consideration, no matter how polite, is a good way to get dead.
(for the record,later found out the gunshots were from the back yard, turns out they were also drunk and shooting guns into the air for… reasons?)
This isnt the 1950s. Asking assholes to have some consideration, no matter how polite, is a good way to get dead.
Perhaps for you Americans.
I live literally in the worst area of my city in Finland, and I don’t need to fear anything like that.
In my last apartment, my downstairs neighbour was a guy who had sat 14 years for 1st degree murder and he hustled meth. He was actually pretty chill, and I was never even the slightest bit worried about him.
I’ve driven a taxi on weekends and evenings, driving bikers from their clubhouses. One guy jumped in literally yelling “were gonna go kill people” into his phone “no I don’t have any money” and whatnot. I didn’t challenge him, thought it easier to just drive him where he wants to. Ended up going to his brother, who was a very normal family man, he talked the face tattooed biker down, then gave him money. It ended up being the best fare of my night.
All this because we have gun control. I really don’t have to be afraid. I mean, I have been, several times, as a younger person. But at least here in Finland, you don’t actually need to fear much more than perhaps getting a fist in the face.
So yeah, please tell me more about how hacking your possibly armed and unreasonable neighbour would be less upsetting to him than just asking them to? Or writing a polite letter?
Kids these days will do everything to avoid social interaction, honestly.
Waking up at 9, putting on some reggaeton for your morning routine isn’t that unreasonable and if no-one complains, how would you know you’re bothering someone? And if your BT speaker just cuts out, you’d definitely try to figure out why, and perhaps even try getting a new one, so hacking won’t actually solve the issue.
Yeah part of the problem you’re skipping past is that American apartments are built with twigs and paper. To maximize profits they’re built cheaply with minimal consideration for noise reduction, so you can hear your neighbor’s TV, fights, fucking, and their obnoxious music. If I could have found a way to shut off my neighbor’s TV blasting I absolutely would have, and you don’t need some asshole who already has broken the social contract of keeping noise at a reasonable level knowing where you live for potential harassment reasons.
My argument kinda relies on it.
Waking up at nine to do some light exercise with reggaeton at a mid level volume could easily wake up a person in another apartment.
So how on Earth would the person doing that know that it’s bothering someone if they don’t go and tell her?
Do you honestly think that if you had had a remote to your neighbours TV, it would’ve solved the issue? So when one of your devices suddenly turns off, you just go “oh well, guess I’m never watching TV again”? Or perhaps “oh the TV mysteriously turned off, that must mean that my neighbour is politely signaling I should lower the volume”?
I used to work night shifts, and a neighbour vacuuming at midday seriously pissed me off. Does that mean they were being unreasonable by not allowing me to sleep?
No. I asked her politely if she could vacuum later if there was nothing special she needed, and she agreed.
I know it’s easy to demonise neighbours as assholes, and lots of them are. My current one’s are fucking horrible, and I can’t fucking take it much more. But I still have went over to try and talk about it, like an adult.
contract of keeping noise at a reasonable level knowing where you live for potential harassment reasons.
“What is an anonymous letter”
Kids these days will do everything to avoid social interaction, honestly.
Yeah, when it has a statistically significant chance of ending up in your death, they do.
I dont know how you can recognize the problem with America, and still have the audacity to say such a bullshit line.
Waking up at 9, putting on some reggaeton for your morning routine isn’t that unreasonable and if no-one complains, how would you know you’re bothering someone
Its called common fucking sense. You know how loud you have your music, and you have some basic fucking decency to go “Oh shit” and turn it down. You are more than capable of enjoying music, in your own home, without bothering other people. I do it all the time. I dont need anyone to come banging on my door because I have consideration for them so they never have to.
I dont know how you can recognize the problem with America, and still have the audacity to say such a bullshit line.
Because you’re exaggerating the issue, and the issue with Americans is exaggerating the risks of everything to justify having guns and invading other countries, which actually increase the problems you claim to try and avoid.
Its called common fucking sense. You know how loud you have your music, and you have some basic fucking decency to go “Oh shit” and turn it down.
You don’t know how loud it is. Having seen what sort of buildings you guys have, it really doesn’t need to be loud to be audible to another apartment. Not everyone is bothered as easily as others. That’s why it’s important to let the people know.
An anonymous letter in this specific instance would definitely be the first choice. Honestly, what the hell is hacking the BT gonna do? Make them buy a new, possibly even louder speaker? How would they know it doesn’t work because someone is annoyed at the level of noise in the morning?
I do it all the time.
Oh and you also read minds, so that you know for a fact that no-one is bothered by you clomping around to music they might hate, but they’re not coming to say anything, because they think there’s a “statistically significant” chance of getting murdered for doing it?
Because you’re exaggerating the issue, and the issue with Americans is exaggerating the risks of everything to justify having guns and invading other countries, which actually increase the problems you claim to try and avoid.
Ah yes, So you hate Americans so you are just going to be a cunt to anything and anyone related to America, and to justify that you are just going to straight up reply to your own imaginary conversations to justify it, since nothing I actually said would give you ground to say this shit.
Not even worth replying to the rest of your stupidity when your agenda is this obvious
Why would you say I “hate Americans”?
You live in a country that has a lot of issues and crime, yes, but as I always keep hearing in gun debates, “it’s not most of the country”. So are you really saying America is in such a state that trying to talk to a neighbour is too dangerous for anyone? That’s horrible. I would help if I could. Which is for instance why I very often argue for reasonable gun control which would help with your situation.
And again, doesn’t change that an anonymous letter informing someone that their morning music seems loud will work better than disconnecting a speaker.
The latter will only confuse the person who will fix the speaker connection or get a new one.
Can’t always do that, for example in condo buildings. If they live in another building you may not be able to get into it at all, and often getting to different floors isn’t possible.
haha, somebody made this exact same comment on hacker news!
Something something, part 15 of the FCC rules. Maybe don’t do this.
Operation is subject to the following two conditions:
(1) this device may not cause harmful interference, and
(2) this device must accept any interference received
-back of every device, it seemed, in the 90s
What’s the legality of jamming wireless signals?
Very much illegal.
You won’t likely get caught doing it once or twice, but repeatedly doing it will get you a hefty fine and potentially even criminal charges.
Not to mention, imagine if your jamming prevents someone making an emergency call. Or if you disrupt emergency services.
Recording yourself doing it is just asking for trouble, like filming yourself going over twice the speed limit.
You deserve the consequences, too.
As annoying as loud music might be (9AM definitely isn’t early lol), it’s not up to you to decide what the appropriate volume for someone to play music on their property is. They very probably are perfectly legally entitled to do so.
Maliciously attacking their shit is not OK.
Not.
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Yeah it’s really bad news.
And chances are it will be investigated pretty quickly… you’re likely to cause problems for more than just the next door neighbour’s music. A friend of mine is a cellular radio technician and is occasionally tasked with identifying signal problems. Usually it’s unintentional - some electronic device that isn’t working properly, and they have tools to find the source relatively quickly and and order the owner to turn off and repair/destroy whatever is causing problems.
He said when nobody is home in the building that appears to be broadcasting noise, he will call the utility company and have them shut off power to the building to try to stop whatever is broadcasting.
If it’s intentional… cops will be called.
neighbor plugs in aux cord, hack useless.
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Okay here. USB KILLER flash drive.
Then you transition to this: https://lifehacker.com/silence-noisy-neighbors-by-transmitting-your-music-to-t-5852903
Drill bit, fiber optic camera, a fish tape with a hook end and some drywall putty to fix the hole afterwards.
There are always answers.
Modern problems require macgyver solutions
9am seems reasonable. Just hack it to set the max level volume at 20% or whatever is reasonable.
The ol stuxnet approach, if you make it subtle enough you might just get away with it
So it’s like evil Shazam.
Not all heroes wear capes
Should have used a 3.5mm cable…
vhm-314 spotted in thumbnail!! :D
The hero we don’t deserve, but desperately need!
9am? I’ve been up for six hours by then. If you play loud music after 7:30 pm tho I might have to retaliate.
But only reggaeton? Seems like someone just has an issue with one genre of music.
