Long Distance European Hiking… with a Tweenager
Gear Sleeping bag MD Ultra 500 (900g) has a probable EN rating of -8°C (limit) to 0°C (comfort). This was ok for […]
Author: Brett
Energy Dashboards
Currently (2021) PhiSaver has one billlion data points. It’s a bit hard to display in a single user dashboard. An efficient user […]
Energy Monitoring: Circuit Positives and Negatives!
Control Volume Switchboard This is how I use a control-volume approach to practically monitor circuits. It’s half maths and half “it’s easy […]
InfluxDB v2 (Flux) Setup for Energy and Power Data from Iotawatt
This are my notes on setting up InfluxDBv2 for storing Iotawatt power readings. Specifically I needed to: Transition a live site from […]
Raspi (Zero W or Rpi 4) router with wlan1 Wifi Dongle
Pi Zero There are a few options to do this. I used the official documentation and adapted it to create a script: […]
InfluxDB1 to InfluxDB2 with SSL
Install new Ubuntu 20 LTS on AWS (t3.medium). ‘t3 is better value than t2’ (tried installing influxdb2 (auto upgrade from v1) then […]
Enclosures for electronics and RF
Investigations into using ABS, polycarbonate and sheet metal enclosures to house electronics with a focus on getting that radio signal (wifi, 3G/4G) […]
Robustel 3G Router Setup
Setting up a R1510-4L 3G router in Australia The setup is R1510-4L router with Telstra SIM card and Jasper web control. The […]
OpenVPN for IoT : Linux Server, Various Clients including RaspiZero
Using a AWS Linux server, and Raspberry Pi Zero clients Situation Goals Solution Details Setup OpenVPN Server and CA add_client.sh Run on […]
linux commands
Test OpenVPN server on it’s standard UDP port telnet is so 2020 so use nc which does UDP too -v verbose -z […]