January 17, 2022January 17, 2022Computing, Programming Periodic Emails with Django Rough notes on meeting these requirements: Using Django Send weekly / daily emails to someone Log results Be robust and simple Packages […]
November 12, 2021November 25, 2021Computing WordPress Setup (and Migration) WordPress: meh. But anyway:
September 13, 2021Energy Monitoring, Internet Of Things, Sustainable Buildings 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 […]
August 17, 2021September 20, 2021Computing, Internet Of Things 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 […]
May 3, 2021June 11, 2023Computing, Energy Monitoring, Internet Of Things 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) […]
March 7, 2021June 5, 2023Computing, Internet Of Things 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 […]
March 5, 2021June 16, 2021Computing, Programming 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 […]
November 27, 2020November 27, 2020Computing, Programming Debugging Pi from VSCode There’s a few tutorials and references for debugging a python program on a remote (e.g. pi) computer. I had to fiddle a […]
September 7, 2020May 5, 2021Internet Of Things Backup and Restore SD Cards using linux Once a Pi is setup, it’s useful to clone the SD card and save the state. Here’s how. See more details on […]
February 14, 2020January 13, 2021Computing, Internet Of Things, Timelapse Battery PiZero W, PiJuice Zero and a Camera Goal Make a really simple timelapse camera. Runs on a Pi and uploads photos when WiFi available Always taking photos and saving. […]