Entertainment 📺

Use a streaming service:
1. Turn on streaming box with small remote
2. Wait for system to power on
3. Set stereo to MEDIA BOX
4. Stream away

Listen to music:
1. Press BLUETOOTH on stereo remote
2. Ensure your phone is paired
3. Use your phone to control audio media and stereo master volume

Select a source:
1. Press SOURCE on TV remote
2. Use directional toggle to find select TV or new HDMI channel
3. You'll likely need to change the stereo source to TV, since that's where the audio will now be coming from

Stereo
Remote

You'll be using this to select audio sources and controlling volume.

You'll need to almost always select MEDIA BOX after the system turns on because the TV is the slowest to boot up, so it always sends the "I'm on" signal to the stereo after everything else has.

If you plug in a game console via the extra HDMI cable or watching OTA TV, you want the source on the stereo to be TV

Your phone should automatically pair when you select BLUETOOTH. You can stream music from your phone. *The phone will now control the master volume on the stereo.

Streamer
Remote

Power button should eventually turn everything on/off in series.

The single triangle is Back and the circle next to it will always take you back to the main screen.

The power button actually puts the streamer box in to standby mode, so if an app freezes or doesn't load, or if there's problems with the internet connection, you might need to restart the streaming box. Just press the hamburger button on the top right and select REBOOT to hard-reset the device.

TV
Remote

You'll likely only need this to select a new a/v input source or if the streaming box doesn't automatically turn the TV on or off.

I you want to watch OTA (over the air) TV or if you hook a gaming console into the spare HDMI (behind the right front speaker) you'll need to press the SOURCE button on the top middle and select a new source. The streaming box is HDMI 1, so if the console doesn't identify itself in the source menu, I expect it to be under HDMI 2.

*Remember the max volume is about 45. Any louder and it won't sound good anyways.
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** HDMI is still clunky and nothing plays together quite the way it should; so if the TV turns off, expect the stereo to turn off as well (even if it's not the source). Same goes for turning off the media box or the stereo. They're all interconnected in ways that can sometimes be frustrating.

Pets 🐟🐕‍🦺

Feeding Dogs
Feeding times are around 7:30 a.m. and 8 p.m.
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* Update: Miko needs a different dog food than Midge as of a vet appt. this last Tuesday. She now gets food from the small bag atop the cutting board. She gets a cup and half morning and evening (but she doesn't really like it so don't worry if she doesn't finish).
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1. Let the dogs out first (otherwise Miko, the brown pitbull will think she doesn't have to go to the bathroom)
2. While they're outside, fill Midge, the white dog's bowl, with almost a full scoop of food and add hot tap water to the bowl until it barely covers all the food.
3. Place Midge's food next to the trash can and get a cup and a half ready for Miko.
4. When you open the door, Midge will automatically come in to eat, and Miko will patiently wait by her bowl.
5. Miko will ask to come in after she's eaten and gone to the bathroom.

Dog Meds
Labels are on all of the dog meds in the cabinet by next to the trash cans
MIKO (Brown Dog)
1 ^1/2 "Cranberry Relief" bites once a day (AM) * You can break them in half as needed.
1 Arthritis pill in the AM 1 pill in the PM
1 Dropper full of CBD every other day in the AM
MIDGE
1 Pill in the AM
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Feeding Fish
Instructions are labeled near fishBeta fish (Counter by the Kitchen) 5-8 pellets in the AM and PM/ Turn light on in the AM off in the PM *Button on top of light
Killafish (Tiny fish on shoe organizer by the front door) 1 large Tetra fish flake crushed up once a day/ Use app to turn light on/off
Goldfish (on the floor in front of the windows) One pinch in the AM and PM
Matcha Pufferfish (Big tank with spotted puffer) Food is on a lower shelf in the freezer labeled for each day. Place allocated food in her tank in the AM.

Plants 🌵

Lawn
• Water both opposing corners for at least 15 minutes. If you want to do 15 minutes from each corner in a single night it won't hurt. If you don't hit all 4 corners in an evening *please make sure* that each evening you do the two different corners than you did the previous evening.
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•You'll need to set the bounding clips to keep the water from overspraying too much into the house, street or driveway (though a little bit is totally fine and unavoidable). Just gently pinch the tabs togeter and they will freely rotate

• It will be dry and hot, so plan on watering every other evening.

•It's not gonna die if it doesn't get watered enough. It just won't be happy with me when I get home.

Outdoor Plants
*Make sure you only open the blue valve!
❗❕⚠ When turning on the hose, only screw/unscrew the blue handle; if you use the gold one it will make the swamp cooler dry up.❗❕⚠

back yard, left side
• 3 of the small viney plants with the purple flowers
• 2 mint plants
• 2 fuzzy leafy plants
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Front yard, rock garden
• 2 smaller yellow-flowered plants
• 2 smaller purple-flowered plants
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*The fully grown versions of the these are established and drought-resistant, but the newly planted ones need 2 or 3 times a week to become hearty

Just water with hose for a few seconds until water begins to pool up on the surface.
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Back garden, pots and other flowering plants
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Peace Lilly

If this guy starts to get REALLY sad and droopy, it'll need two pitchers of water

Misc. ⚙

Oven
• Press Bake (no fan logo) then input temp, then press START/SET
• Sometimes it stall when pre-heating and goes into a strange look where it shuts the flame of then turns it back on repeatedly.
If this happens, just press OFF/CLEAR and trick it into preheating by pressing BROIL (press it twice for high), then START/SET. This will keep it pre-heating like normal. Give it 5 or 10 minutes, press OFF/CLEAR, then press BAKE, input your temp then START/SET and you'll see that it will be up to temp (or very close) by then.

Swamp Cooler
• Thermostat is in hall. It should be comfortable at 75 degrees, but if you get cold at night, you can adjust the temp. Please don't turn it lower than 75 though. It will run non-stop then and burn out the motor.
• When the thermostat trips turns the cooler on, first the green light will blink for 5 minutes while water flows through the mats in the unit. After 5 minutes, the fan will kick on and the light will become solid green and you'll feel cool, damp air blowing from the cealing.
• Fans need to be on and blowing out the bedroom and office windows for the house to stay cool, otherwise the unit will just push damp air into the house with no evaporation.

Food
• Pizza, burritos, brown rice and ice cream bars in the freezer
• Indian packets (to mix with brown rice) in the cupboard next to fridge
• Lunch/sandwich supplies in the fridge as well as a few portions of tofu stir fry
• More snacks in the corner cabinet next to dishwasher
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Housesitting notes📝