February 6, 2020December 31, 2020Computing, Internet Of Things, Uncategorized Raspberry Pi Setup (Linux) Setup SD Card on another linux machine to install headless I use Desktop Raspberry Pi OS distro. This is tested on a […]
February 6, 2020March 10, 2021Computing, Internet Of Things SSH Port Forwarding There’s heaps on this on the internet and a good book. Here is my usage, which is useful for IoT connections. Remote […]
January 22, 2020April 4, 2023Computing, Energy Monitoring, Internet Of Things Hacking an IotaWatt ESP8266 I need to flash the IotaWatt firmware (and write new files to the SD card) for two reasons: firstly I have a […]
November 23, 2019January 24, 2021Computing, Internet Of Things Grafana and InfluxDB on a Pi Instructions as of late 2019! I used a Pi Zero W. This works but was pretty slow and awful for a my […]
November 6, 2019February 11, 2022Energy Monitoring, Programming Access Grafana without a login screen Unlike Grafana 5, we can’t use the ‘old’ method of a proxy login to get a cookie for semi-permanent login. This post […]
September 27, 2019April 8, 2020Computing, Timelapse, Uncategorized Pi Zero W Timelapse Camera This scratch pad records my experience with a Pi Zero W unit, capturing outside timelapses. Controlling the PiCamera Reference to python module […]
July 8, 2019September 6, 2019Computing, Internet Of Things, Programming ESP32 Development Environment – Bleeding Edge ESP-IDF v4.1 with cmake There’s a few options to program the esp32: Arduino IDE : good. Heaps of support and tutorials. Some key limitations for ESP32, […]
June 11, 2019June 12, 2019Computing, Internet Of Things, Programming WebApp Development for a Esp32 Arduino Sketch 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 […]
May 16, 2019August 3, 2019Computing, Internet Of Things ESP32 Tricks and Tips Time Keeping The ESP32 docs say you can set the RTC to keep time in deep sleep (“RTC clock is used to […]
May 13, 2019January 31, 2021Internet Of Things, Timelapse Mini Battery and Solar Powered Timelapse Camera I wanted a small, battery-powered timelapse camera. First I tried mobile phones but they were not stable in the long term. Previously […]