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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
Jul 17

Android 4.0 (ICS) on the Desire HD with Cyanogenmod 9

Posted on July 17, 2012 by Admin
ICS Screenshot

My Desire HD is getting long in the tooth. I’ve been waiting for the Ice Cream Sandwich update ever since HTC announced it would be “coming soon”. Well, for me, it turns out, “soon” wasn’t soon enough. Using the Ace … Continue reading →

Posted in Tech | Tagged Android, CM9, Desire HD, Geekery, ICS, upgrade | 1 Reply
Jun 26

XBMC on the Raspberry Pi

Posted on June 26, 2012 by Admin

After a failed attempt a few weeks ago, I tried installing XBMC on my Pi yesterday evening (as per this forum post). All went well, but after using it for a bit, it seems that the performance is not good enough … Continue reading →

Posted in Tech | Tagged Debian, Geekery, Raspberry Pi, XBMC | Leave a reply
May 29

Raspberry Pi – good ideas for beginners

Posted on May 29, 2012 by Admin

Ok, so you’ve got your Raspberry Pi, you’ve put Debian Squeeze on an SD card – now what? This is what I did. Not all of it may be applicable to you, but some of it is definitely a good … Continue reading →

Posted in Tech | Tagged Debian, omxplayer, Raspberry Pi | Leave a reply
May 23

Broadband Woes (#firstworldproblems)

Posted on May 23, 2012 by Admin

So, having had BT infinity for ~18months, and syncing at about 26Mpbs, we decided we were happy with the service and signed up for a new contracted to get the speed increase. The order went live on the 17th April, … Continue reading →

Posted in Tech | Tagged #firstworldproblems, broadband, BT, BTCare, Home Hub | Leave a reply
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