Back in 2017, the Connected Counties (Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire) team announced that the small village I live in was going to get an upgrade from ADSL to FTTP. At the time I was less than impressed about the reasons we were going to get such an upgrade* but I’m not …
FOREWORDAs with all the posts on this site, this post is purely my opinion and a log of the things I have done. This post is in no way meant as investment advice or an endorsement for the shares/funds/trusts mentioned. Always do your own research and/or seek independent financial advice …
FOREWORDSome of you will read this article and ask why I didn’t go vegan because of the impact consuming meat and dairy products has on the environment. I’m quite a fussy eater and don’t think I could go vegan yet. I am however trying to cut down my meat consumption …
I experienced my first earthquake in Rhodes on holiday, Thursday 3rd October! A magnitude 5.0 woke me up at 7:44am local time. Thought I’d overslept and a family member was shaking me awake 😂 https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/2538580/M5-Thu-3-Oct-Dodecanese-Islands-Greece.html
Yesterday morning I woke up and checked my email from my phone (as I normally do)… I’d received no emails overnight which was a bit odd and then noticed that I’d switched off 4G the night before and didn’t have a Wifi connection. Since I have a Wifi access point …
I’ve been using self-signed certificates for a few of the applications and services I run at home on the local network for a year now and with Firefox it’s not an issue as you accept the risk the very first time and never get asked again. However in the kitchen, …
I’ve now had my Nissan Leaf 2.zero for exactly one year and in that time I’ve driven 16000 miles, so it’s about time I did another update on how I’m finding the car and any issues with it. First serviceThe car went in for it’s first service in February to …
Over the last few months since I re-wrote my home monitoring application and started logging data to Splunk (in addition to the existing two locations) there’s been an update to Splunk that seemed to fix an issue I had with updating dashboard panels in near realtime. This is a huge …
Back in July I posted about changing the application that sits on my server to collect data from around the house and send it to Splunk. That app has been sending data for over 8 months now and during the winter we noticed that the Powerwall was consuming data from …
It’s been just over 5 months since we had our Tesla Powerwall installed and I thought I’d give an early update on the difference it’s made to our grid consumption so far. It is still early days and I will provide another update once I have a few more readings …
I’ve now had my car just short of 6 months and have clocked up 8000 miles so I thought I’d give an update. Money I’ve saved I’ve spent a grand total of £23.42 on fuel since getting the car 😀 Compared to £50 every 5 days, this is quite a …
As previously mentioned in the home monitoring re-write number four post, I have a number of Arduinos around the house that collect data and send the data using an HTTP POST to the home monitoring application. During the upgrade of the home monitoring stack, I decided to introduce Nginx to …
This year I upgraded the home monitoring suite in my house from a Wattson to a Splunk dashboard running on a tablet in the kitchen. The primary reason for doing this was that after getting the Tesla Powerwall, Wattson no longer was able to correctly state how much power was …
I’ve been using Keepass to store my passwords for years but it was only this year that I realised (yes, how could I not know?!) that the Auto-Type functionality can be customised to handle obscure login forms. Below are a list of some of the Auto-Types that I’ve created to …
Since getting the Tesla Powerwall installed, our trusted Wattson has not been able to display correct figures as it can’t tell if we are importing or exporting until the Powerwall is full. The Wattson displays a relatively static value of +150W indicating that we’re importing, yet the data from the …
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