Technical blog to share ideas about Home Automation and other things.
Small outages will not disrupt the normal working and in case of long blackout will be possible to safely shut down the system.
Plus will be possible to create events to inform about an outtage, like sending an email.
This article uses the plugin APCUPSD that is not free and is based on the apc utilities.
Small blackout will not disrupt the normal working and in case of long blackout will be possible to safely shut down the system.
Plus will be possible to create events to inform about an outtage, like sending an email.
There are many possibilities but in the end my goal would like to be :
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.
In one of my tour I did find in very good conditions an Anviz FacePass Pro 7, a clock-in face recognition device for few $.
Let discover what it is, if is working and how I could use it !
It was still sealed (apparently) and everything supposed to be in it, it was.
But of course ... it was .. it is, broken.
Let see if it can be fixed. If not ... well, is a very good source of interesting components !
This is the second module I'm playing for my Meshstatisc experiments
Then I did try for a while a kind of equivalent service based only on smartphone : Bitchat
I like the idea of both, but of course finding somebody on Bitchat is like to win a lottery ticket .. so everything went back on the back back back burner.
Then one day I decided to try to do something with Meshstastic and here we are
I already have some "pieces" of HA around, my glorious and ancient X10 system, an integration with Amazon Echo for the archaic X10, but it was time to start to play with ZigBee or Z-Wave.
So I had to choose and pick up an hub for them.
One of the reason to pay for Fitbit Premium was the possibility to generate a 30 days Wellness Report.
I did use that every time before to go to a doctor, it is a nice way to report some physical data.
Since last year, Fitbit (or better Google who did buy Fitbit) decided to remove the possibility to have the Wellness Report.
Why ? Who knows.
It can show the battery charge and the instant load/discharge, enable/disable outputs, etc.
Hover one thing is missing : create and show a graph reporting the loading/discharge of the battery, to see for example how much the solar panel contribute to the charge and similar info.
OctoPrint has to run somewhere, so I did use a Raspberry Pi 3B to run it but all things age and I did reach the moment to update it.
On an antique mall I did find this nice radio, little bit dirty but otherwise in good shape.
Some cleaning notes.
I decided to buy an EF ECOFLOW Solar Generator DELTA 2 Max 2048Wh with 400 W solar panel to charge the Solar generator for long outages.
Normally I'm going on eBay looking for old server to rebuild the main PC, this time I decided to try to buy a new computer, where "new" means recently built.
Browsing around I found this little guy and somehow I was intrigued.
There are many different types on the market, I think mine is a 50W unit already assembled with 3 fans, two for cooling down the
hot" side, and one to push the cold air.
Is not easy to set up, run and interpret results of tests.
There are many way to do tests on machines, this one is open source, covers Linux, MacOs and Windows, is based on PHP so is highly portable and is quite complex to master just because is HUGE !
The advantage is the capability to install different versions of Joomla for tests/development or data retrieval from older backups.
