Setting the time on a Growatt Inverter

After monitoring my solar inverter for over a year now, I have had a couple of instances where the daily energy graphs went a bit strange. It turns out that the inverter’s internal clock will occasionally drift by several hours.  This causes the daily energy production figure to reset at a time other than midnight. Setting the…

My NBN Predictions

It seems almost certain that in about 15 days we will have a new coalition government. Broadly speaking their NBN policy is a switch from FTTH to FTTN. Much has been written about why FTTN is inferior to FTTH and why, given the state of the copper and the likely lifetime of an FTTN solution,…

And we’re back…

I have built a new OS image for the weather station Raspberry Pi and reinstalled WView, so the weather pages are back up.  Unfortunately I wasn’t able to recover the new HTML template I made, so it is back to the standard page for the moment, until I can recreate it. *NOTE TO SELF* –…

Service Information

Last week I migrated to a different server at my hosting provider in order to get access to some additional features.  Unfortunately this had a serious impact on the performance of this site. After talking to GoDaddy support last night they were able to migrate me again, but this time to a newer hosting farm…

Reformatting a FAT32 drive to HFS+ – Never trust a GUI

I bought an external drive for a relative to use with Time Machine. Of course it cam pre-formatted as FAT32 and while this would work it wouldn’t give the best performance, so I wanted to reformat it as HFS+. I fired up Disk Utility, selected Journaled file system and click erase…and error. A bit of…

So much spin I’m getting dizzy

This is kind of old news now, but I have been too busy to post in the last week or so. The chaser “invasion” of the APEC security zone was funny but also extremely alarming. The authorities applied “spin” to the issue, claiming that the security worked as the Chaser boys were arrested and that…