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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 ensure he doesn’t die. When he was first diagnosed, we used fingerpricks and a blood glucose meter to assess Blood Glucose (BG) levels and calculate…
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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 even update a domain’s DNS to point to your home IP address. Normally, this can be gotten in plain-text format using a few services which…
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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 of failing gracefully, and simply stop itself from Showing, decided that it would prevent any of each post’s content from being shown once you clicked…
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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 times. It needed some tweaking, sure, but it did a very good job overall. I then realised – what use is a smart device, which…
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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 Windows 8 installed, but they were unable to reinstall it as the installer was complaining about partitions. I would have been happy to help sort…
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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 Raspberry Pi, and led to me looking everything up again and bashing my brains out on the desk for leaving it all out in the…
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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 where it will not boot from this particular USB drive (I mainly use it on laptops and at work). Grub will get written to this…
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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.
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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 at the electricity meter to measure the amount of electricity being used, and display this in realtime on its 4.5″ LCD screen. You have the…
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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 have tinkered with though: I moved my server downstairs, as my Homeplugs have recently started giving me horrible, horrible transfer speeds (down from ~6mbps to…