Nest Thermostat, APIs and RRDTool
A week or so ago we had a Nest Thermostat installed. It's quite clever - learning when you are in, out and awake, and estimating a heating profile for those…
A week or so ago we had a Nest Thermostat installed. It's quite clever - learning when you are in, out and awake, and estimating a heating profile for those…
This weekend, aside from various childrens parties, my uncle asked me to take a look at a laptop, and install Linux on it. It is my cousin's, had previously had…
It seems that when I created my first post on Monitoring the Currentcost Envir I omitted some details. This discovery came when trying to move the Currentcost monitoring over to a…
Don't do what I did, and leave a live USB drive in your PC when upgrading distribution from Xubuntu 13.10 to 14.04 - especially when your PC has a quirk…
I wanted a way to easily import Internet radio streams into MPC, and then be able to easily change the station to the next one in the playlist. Scouring the…
At the weekend, my latest gadgety purchase arrived, a Currentcost EnviR - This smallish device connects to its own wireless transmitter, which uses a current clamp round your live wire…
My Desire HD is getting long in the tooth. I've been waiting for the Ice Cream Sandwich update ever since HTC announced it would be "coming soon". Well, for me,…
After a failed attempt a few weeks ago, I tried installing XBMC on my Pi yesterday evening (as per this forum post). All went well, but after using it for a…
Ok, so you've got your Raspberry Pi, you've put Debian Squeeze on an SD card - now what? This is what I did. Not all of it may be applicable…
So, having had BT infinity for ~18months, and syncing at about 26Mpbs, we decided we were happy with the service and signed up for a new contracted to get the…