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Feb 22

Wemos D1 Mini, Nightscout and e-paper

Posted on February 22, 2018 by Admin

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 6 Replies
Jan 18

The Plusnet Hub One and webscraping for fun and profit

Posted on January 18, 2017 by Admin
Plusnet Hub One

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged bash, broadband, Geekery, Home Hub, plusnet, webscraping | 7 Replies

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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 … Continue reading →

Posted on January 11, 2017 by Admin | Leave a reply
Jan 01

Nest Thermostat, APIs and RRDTool

Posted on January 1, 2016 by Admin
Nest Thermostat

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Tech | Tagged Currentcost, Geekery, python, rrdtool | Leave a reply
Oct 11

Lazy Linux installation

Posted on October 11, 2015 by Admin

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Tech | Tagged Kubuntu, Ubuntu, VirtualBox | Leave a reply
Feb 04

Monitoring the Currentcost Envir part 2 (on the Raspberry Pi)

Posted on February 4, 2015 by Admin

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 … Continue reading →

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Apr 19

A quick tip when upgrading your distribution…

Posted on April 19, 2014 by Admin

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Tech | Tagged Geekery, Ubuntu, USB, xubuntu | Leave a reply
Oct 29

Playing Internet radio streams with MPD/MPC (with a little bash and python)

Posted on October 29, 2013 by Admin

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.

Posted in Tech | Tagged bash, internet radio, mpc, mpd, python | 2 Replies
Sep 12

Monitoring the Currentcost Envir

Posted on September 12, 2013 by Admin

  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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Tech | Tagged Currentcost, Geekery, Scripts | 1 Reply
Dec 14

A Little Quiet

Posted on December 14, 2012 by Admin

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 … Continue reading →

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