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. […]
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 […]