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andy.slater27th March 202027th March 2020UncategorisedLeave a comment

Raspberry Pi Pollution Monitor Update

So things have progressed with this project. I now have a working prototype that runs from the RavPower power bank mentioned here This combined with solar input gives quite a good run time on WiFi I have also got 3G connectivity using OpenVPN working. This allows me to tunnel the SQL data back to the […]

andy.slater1st April 2019Renewable EnergyLeave a comment

Graphing Solar Output with Grafana – Samil Power Inverter

So I have been searching for a while for something to create a good looking dashboard for home energy usage / generation. I have had a Raspberry Pi hooked up to my inverter in the attic for a while now which was outputting to PVOutput.org but I wanted something hosted locally. Queue Grafana! It creates […]

andy.slater25th March 201827th March 2018Raspberry PiLeave a comment

Raspberry Pi Pollution Monitor – Power / UPS

With all this talk of pollution in the form of NOx and particulate matter in the air, no pun intended, I thought it would be cool to try and measure some of this locally using a Raspberry Pi. I had the idea to try and run this off a Pi zero due to its low […]

andy.slater25th March 201827th March 2018Cisco Communications ManagerLeave a comment

CUCM – Displaying Caller Name for External Inbound Calls

So one of the annoying things with Call Manager is you can’t really seem to easily manipulate the calling name for inbound calls, or at least recognise a known number and manipulate based on that. So for example, an inbound call to a DDI comes from a company owned mobile number, which is referenced in […]

andy.slater26th February 201722nd March 2018SecurityLeave a comment

Home Security – CCTV with JOOAN IP Cameras

A few notes on what I ran into setting up JOOAN CCTV IP cameras on Milestone XProtect. So I was broken into by some scum of the earth person recently. They caused a fair bit of mess but didn’t actually take anything. I knew something was wrong before I even walked in as the Nest […]

andy.slater24th February 20172nd March 2017arduinoLeave a comment

Barduino – The best Automated Bar that runs on Arduino

This is a project from a few years ago that me and a friend did. Its basically a fully automated Bar which runs on Arduino. Pictures taken from: www.barduino.co.uk

andy.slater31st January 201622nd March 2018arduino5 Comments

Arduino HomeKit integration – How to set it up

So today I was looking at trying to get an iOS device to talk with an arduino to control some home appliances using HomeKit. I already had the majority of things that were needed, mainly a solid state relay and ethernet shield. It turns out there’s a great NodeJS server called HomeBridge to get things […]

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