Insulating a Queenslander
Stud Walls Often you can’t access the wall without removing weatherboard or plaster. However, the stud bays in my house are open […]
Category: Sustainable Buildings
Daylight Analysis
Level 1 (Ground) We want good daylight – a “daylight factor” (DF) if used with a uniform sky. <2% is dim (dark […]
Solar Analysis
In Brisbane we want zero sun in Summer, a tiny tiny bit in Spring and Autumn and a reasonable amount in Winter. […]
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 […]
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 […]
IotaWatt: Multi-Tenant Setup using InfluxDB v1
This post describes how to setup IotaWatt on a single-database (multi-tenant) arrangement in Influx. Previously I described single database setup for Influx, […]
Architectural Hacking
Layout Moves Sometimes it’s hard to predict which layout will look best – often the plan (i.e “in plan”, looking down) is […]
Daylight and Sun Shading Analysis – Superceded Pod Design
Shading and Daylighting Using Ecotect and some custom scripts, it’s possible to quickly generate “views from the sun”. Using Radiance, we can […]
Stair Design
The rise and run of a stairway makes it comfortable (or not). This reference is good but in imperial, this is good […]
A39 House – Performance and Monitoring
Air Sealing Testing Introduction and Rationale “Build tight and ventilate right” is the mantra for passive houses in cold climates, such as […]