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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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