AJAX or websockets will allow nicer development. I’m trying BootStrap to get a tidy interface. Bootply.com and layitout.com enable you to easily create a css/html set of file to display nice buttons and the like. Pingendo (a desktop app) was better for […]
Time Keeping The ESP32 docs say you can set the RTC to keep time in deep sleep (“RTC clock is used to maintain accurate time when chip is in deep sleep mode”). This post details how to restore normal system time from […]
I wanted a small, battery-powered timelapse camera. First I tried mobile phones but they were not stable in the long term. Previously I’d used a Raspberry Pi which is good, but not battery friendly, a bit big, and a bit of an […]
Examples # Monit local http process check process httpd with pidfile /var/run/httpd/httpd.pid start program = “/usr/bin/systemctl httpd start” stop program = “/usr/bin/systemctl httpd stop” if children > 250 then restart if 3 restarts within 5 cycles then timeout# Monit local endpoint check […]
Typical Replacement Example Dim objRegExp As Object ‘ RegExp using Microsoft VBScript 5.5 Set objRegExp = CreateObject(vbscript.regexp) Dim res As String res = Some text to stuff around with objRegExp.Global = True ‘ match all instance objRegExp.IgnoreCase = True ‘ Multi-space to […]
Time Lapse Setup TimeLapse on RPi Enable camera via raspi-config Get pi-timolo which provides a nice script set and configuration to run time lapses Follow the update instructions on that page. Install pi-timolo as a service if you like. I found that […]
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What is it? These add-in contains various User Defined Functions. They can answer the following Where is the Sunday in London on Friday afternoon in 2020? What is the wetbulb for a given humidity? How big should my duct / compressed air […]
This inverter has a WiFi connection and opens ports 80 (password protected) and 502 (modbus). It’s possible to read the modbus registers. There’s a handy script that’s done all the hard work. This can import into Influx, as shown below (via grafana. […]
This works for Grafana v5. Grafana v6 has removed this functionality for security reasons. This explains how I implemented a previously outlined solution, in a step-by-step fashion. I initially struggled to get this running. There’s the method that worked. Overview The goal […]