Lately I’ve been engrossed in a project to add some monitoring to my home. This includes temperature and humidity readings, along with monitoring for windows and doors eventually. This will be built almost entirely using Arduinos wherever possible. The Goal: To have a remotely viewable home dashboard to monitoring the house The Plan: Use Arduinos …
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Latest Computer build: RAID fileserver and media center
Had the idea in my head for a while now about doing a fileserver build to put all my media in one place. This includes years of movies, music and TV shows along with about 100GB of music rips. The goals of this were pretty simple: Have some form of redundancy, most likely in a …
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Monitoring System: Update 1
So I’ve been working with this project off and on, mainly off due to time constraints with a new work shift/promotion. I’ve split the logs and dashboard readouts to allow for easier pulling of individual data. What this allowed me to do was to couple this with WordPress using iFrame to load the individual pieces. …
Little side project: Monitoring System
Been debating on how to keep an eye on my home network and decided to take a swing at getting a monitoring system built from scratch to build my coding skills more. General idea: Have a list of devices stored in a database with information such as IPs and names Pull this device list, and …
First Impressions: Macbook Pro (November 2013)
Before I continue: I am NOT a fanboy nor do I push to use Apple’s products exclusively. I have an Android phone (Motorola X2) which I love, along with a Transformer 300T tablet. Onto the good stuff… Why would I consider a Mac when I’ve been a PC guy literally my whole life and swear …
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