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 …
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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 …
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 …
Geeky Sunday
So today I’ve written a plug-in for x-plane 11 and it lets me control my hue lights… This took far too long, but I’ve had to refresh my (human) memory on how to write code in C. I’ve learnt how to compile a dll to use libcurl as the hueapi is based round http requests …
I love my radiator valve
Yes you read that right. I really love my radiator valve.
It is not embossed – Debit Card
So my bank sent me a new debit card after the ticketmaster data breach. Thank you bank for looking after me, but I was surprised when this bank card turned up that it no longer has embossed numbers. As my friends pointed out to me on Facebook where I made a short comment on this …
What I have got planned
Well there’s the running show, I’m off to next week. I’m spending more and more time playing in the mud and socialising with the friends I’ve made in the mud. So a fair few of the OCR Solo Mudders are off to the National Running show next week. (Once I’ve got my weight back down …
So I’ve started again
So being an IT geek I thought I should work out how to make a https: website and not just a http: one. In simple terms web browsers are going to start moaning more and more about http: only websites soon. Chrome always has a “Not secure” in front of the URL which doesn’t look …