Fresh Stuff Occasionally
I recently had a 5kW solar array installed and it came with a Growatt 5000MTL inverter. This inverter is installed in my garage and comes with RS232 and RS485 ports for monitoring. I wanted to connect to PVOutput.org to publish my system’s production. I found a Python script that could do the job on sisand.dk but it needed…
Just before the election I made my NBN predictions. Less than two weeks after the election there is some speculation that my 5% chance option 1 – continue with FTTP – may happen. Although I didn’t include the use of fibre-to-the-basement (FTTB) as an option for apartments and other MDUs such as shopping centres in…
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* –…
I have installed a weather station so that we can see exactly how cold it is (also to keep track of the all-important rainfall which fills our tank). Of course I had to connect it to the Internet. This means I can share this very interesting information with all of you. You can get access…
Continuing from part 1, I have replaced the IR detector in the matrix receiver and now the receiver can detect the 56KHz Austar remote. Unfortunately the transmitter is still sending out a 38KHz signal and the Austar box doesn’t respond to it. At this point I can see two options: Build a circuit to convert…
Hello everyone. Are you sitting comfortably? Good. Today we are going to take a slight diversion from house updates and talk about infrared remote controls. It is going to get a bit technical, so if you aren’t interested, you can go look at some funny pictures of cats
About a week ago my much loved Bose headphones broke – the plastic headband snapped. If they were a cheaper set of headphones I would have just thrown them away, but with a $500 replacement cost I thought it was worth enquiring about repair. I called Bose and was advised that they may be able…