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 …
Category Archives: Internet
The phone line is fixed
So the phone line did get fixed before 1pm, thank you sky for getting BT openreach to deal with the fault. I am told there was a flood locally with lots of BT vans in the morning, hence guess them fixing that might be related. What was slightly annoying was making sure I was at …
The phone line is down
So I got home to the phones saying check phone line and did the whole moving furniture to check the master socket and still no phone line. The good news is the broadband hasn’t died with it, but of course a half broken phone line makes me worry it will break some more. Sky took …
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 really, really want
Is a commercial grade device that connects to Ethernet and let’s me power cycle a single device remotely. What’s really annoying is I could knock something like this up for home and be happy it was safe enough, but when it comes to work we really want to be buying in professional grade products. Now …
Stupid Body
Last night on the way home I couldn’t type with my thumb, which is how I normally type on my phone. Every time my thumb was anywhere near the phone screen it would start in a fairly dramatic tremor. Fortunately I could still type if I didn’t use my thumb, but it was slightly awkward …
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 …