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 …
Author Archives: Mike
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 …
Tough Mudder Clapham Common
Early get up First train on a Saturday to change at London Bridge for the Northern Line to Clapham South meant I couldn’t stay out too long on Friday. I also found it quite hard not to get off the tube at Clapham Common, but the maps all agreed that Clapham South was the right …
Fireman Sam
So Sunday I had an interesting start to my day. I was helping at a local half marathon and walked to my marshalling spot getting there nice and early just in case. A lady nothing to do with the event came up to me in a major panic as she had locked her child in …
Fame
It opened last night in the West End and there are a criminal number of empty seats at very good prices!