My Meshstastic - what for ?

So .. Meshstastic is nice, I'm starting to acquire HW for different nodes and experimenting but is also time to plan what to do with it, on the long term.

There are many possibilities but in the end my goal would like to be :

• set up a private network to stay in contact with family/extended family
• have a way to stay in direct contact for activities like hiking
• have access to some environmental data
• have access to the HA system remotely
• routing

Server chronicles - testing fan proposal

The HP ProLiant DL360p Gen8 has 8 fans to cool down the two CPUs and other hardware.

These fans are high speed PWM controlled and are prone to fail over time.

The only thing to do is to replace the defective fan with a new one, but it would be nice to understand exactly what the problem is and check if the replacement fan is working before to open the server.

Home Assistant - evaluation

Recently I started to experience problems with HomeSeer.
My Homeseer HomeTroller (basically a Raspberry Pi) started to experience constant crashes.

In the end is the mono environment very critical, a plugin with problems, a service below not working properly, and mono crashes.

So I started to search for alternatives to HomeSeer, because spending more money on a platform that anyway is faulted, doesn't make any sense.