Another trip is over So I left home at 6:13am on Friday 24th of May and returned back at 12:32pm on Sunday 16th of June. Whisky/Fèis Ìle The first part of my trip was very whisky related. The trip proper started with meeting up with some of the pirate gang at Tebay services. No drinking …
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North Coast 500
Thoughts So I’ve now finished my North Coast 500 (NC500) adventure. I’d allowed myself three days with the option to extend into four if needed. It took me two days. I’m glad I did this in a car before probably changing to driving a van (camper van) next year, as it made the driving more …
So back to my A to Z
So my covid excuse has run out, so it’s back to making an A to Z of places in the United Kingdom to visit. Think the rules are staying about the same, but the list may be chosen before they get visited. One difference is this time I’m going to visit them with a parter …
I fixed the BBQ lights
What? So over our BBQ we have some LED strip, the controller and the power supply I was using for this had both gone pop. Maybe something to do with the outdoors. The power supply actually hides in the shed and the controller is with the lights on the underside of the roof of a …
Alarm Improvement
So I’ve been doing a bit more home automation improving over the last few days. What I now have is a automation running on my iPhone at 02:02 am. This automation sends to my Home Assistant setup the time of the morning alarm minus 30 minutes if one is set or a fake time of …
More geek time
I used another one of my ESP32 devices this time as an output. Took me a while to get it working though as I was putting the text of the screen. Refresh rates Excuse the photo not looking wonderful, but the refresh rate of the display isn’t working well with the iPhone camera. However I’m …
I’ve been geeking again
I read about ESP32 devices and home assistant and couldn’t quite believe how many options there are to use them with external devices to get both inputs and outputs home automation wise. I’ve been wanting my own air pressure monitoring ever since the news reports that you could see an effect on air pressure when …
The oven has gone pop
I don’t believe it I hope my guess diagnosis is right, but if you turn the main oven on it neither gets hot or increases the household electricity consumption. I’ve guessed at the element. It could be worse It at least had the decency to not wait till Christmas Day to do this or do …
Network connected USB
Why So my car records the last 60 minutes from multiple cameras to a USB stick if you plug one in. I want to do something more long term like take a snapshot every 5 mins when driving. Sowhen COVID eventually goes away I can get a time lapse for each road trip I do. …
Gout?
Oh f*%# Is how I can describe waking up on Thursday morning. If I touched my big toe on my right foot then I wanted to scream and I just couldn’t put a sock on and my toe wouldn’t move if I moved the others it was stuck frozen solid. So I went along to …