Our rig is a 2024 Alliance Paradigm 395DS, we have been living in it full time since October 2023 and so far we have visited quite a few states. This year we plan to do a lot more traveling and we are taking our home with us. As I am automating our rig and it is now becoming smarter and smarter, I have named it Skippy! (IYKYK, Skippy is the AI that happens to be a bit of an ass from the book series Expeditionary Force by Craig Alanson. Here is an affiliate link to book 1 on Audible. RC Bray really brings the characters to life! https://amzn.to/42PfqOw)

The network of my rig is powered by a Peplink MAX BR1 Pro 5G router from Pepwave. It is powered directly by the 12VDC system of the rig, so if the batteries have a charge, the network should be active and online. I extend the range of the Peplink with a Parsec Husky Pro 7 in 1 antenna. This antenna has LTE SMA connections, 2 Wifi antennas and 1 GPS antenna. I put this inside of my Winegard antenna that came with my rig. (I ripped the guts out of it, what I put in is SO MUCH better.) And then routed the cables through the attic space into my underbelly. The access point is a TP-Link EAP615 that is mounted in my underbelly passthrough area. It serves all of the devices that require wifi in and around my rig. Starlink internet is my secondary internet to my Business T-Mobile Connection. I did the router delete and 12VDC conversion using the XTAR EL3 Starlink DC Conversion Kit. By doing away with the Starlink's primary router, I lose one device that requires the inverter to operate. When I need the starlink, I roll out the cable through my wet bay port and put the dish on a tripod and away it goes.

Everything in my rig is controlled, at least in part, by Home Assistant, a fantastic open-source control system that interfaces with a wide range of devices. I utilize sensors that transmit via Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and 433 MHz. My setup runs on a compact BeeLink EQR5 mini PC (affiliate link: https://amzn.to/4hNdKtc), powered by an AMD Ryzen 7 5850U processor, 16GB of RAM, and a 500GB NVMe SSD. Did I mention that it's impressively small? Measuring just 5 inches by 5 inches and 2 inches tall, we’ve positioned it discreetly behind the main television in our rig. The computer is connected directly to the 12VDC system of my rig using a 12VDC stabilizer and a 12VDC to 19VDC boost converter. This ensures that it is always powered and I don't have to convert from 12VDC to 120VAC just to invert back to 19VDC. It is much more efficient this way.

For my cabled network throughout my rig, I utilize MoCA network adapters (Media over Coaxial Alliance). They allow me to utilize the existing coaxial cables for satellite to each TV location and transform that connection to become a high-speed 1Gbps port to each location. This utilizes the Hitron Bonded MoCA 2.5Gbps adapter. You need 1 of these at the main network end and another one at each end point. My rig has 4 of them installed. (One behind each TV and one in the internet bay). They allow a tremendous amount of data to flow throughout my rig and not clog up the wireless network. You will also need a MoCA compatible combiner.