Wemos D1 Mini, Nightscout and e-paper
My 2-year-old has Type 1 Diabetes. This is a condition that requires constant monitoring, so that insulin can be administered at the right time and in the right doses to…
The Plusnet Hub One and webscraping for fun and profit
Your external IP can be a useful thing to know. Perhaps you want to SSH into a box within your network, access a web server or some other service, or…
Oops…
So, A Lesson in ensuring you check site content, instead of just the front page. A Plugin had decided that it wasn't going to play ball any more, but instead…
Nest Thermostat, APIs and RRDTool
A week or so ago we had a Nest Thermostat installed. It's quite clever - learning when you are in, out and awake, and estimating a heating profile for those…
Lazy Linux installation
This weekend, aside from various childrens parties, my uncle asked me to take a look at a laptop, and install Linux on it. It is my cousin's, had previously had…
Monitoring the Currentcost Envir part 2 (on the Raspberry Pi)
It seems that when I created my first post on Monitoring the Currentcost Envir I omitted some details. This discovery came when trying to move the Currentcost monitoring over to a…
A quick tip when upgrading your distribution…
Don't do what I did, and leave a live USB drive in your PC when upgrading distribution from Xubuntu 13.10 to 14.04 - especially when your PC has a quirk…
Playing Internet radio streams with MPD/MPC (with a little bash and python)
I wanted a way to easily import Internet radio streams into MPC, and then be able to easily change the station to the next one in the playlist. Scouring the…
Monitoring the Currentcost Envir
At the weekend, my latest gadgety purchase arrived, a Currentcost EnviR - This smallish device connects to its own wireless transmitter, which uses a current clamp round your live wire…
A Little Quiet
I've been fairly quiet on here recently - mostly due to messing around with things that I wouldn't consider geeky enough for here. A quick summary of the things I…