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Better Plant Sensor

Home Automation

Better Plant Sensor

Capacitive Soil Moisture Sensor Just as the heading suggests, this is about a capacitive soil moisture sensor. Initially, I was pretty happy with the result of the Plant soil moisture sensor that I recently posted. However, I quickly ran into an issue. The sensor module corroded within a week rendering

ZoneMinder and Camera woes

Home Automation

ZoneMinder and Camera woes

Here is another project from my October Update. Much of my original home automation setup started with wanting to have some surveillance capabilities. Not that I live in a terrible neighborhood or anything but I like the feeling of security having a few cameras gives me. I chuckle at the

Project Update for October

Home Automation

Project Update for October

I have not posted in a couple of weeks but have been working on plenty of things, so I figure I would at least post a project update. Electricity - ugh It was just a matter of time before the number of devices I added to my homelab, network, and

DIN mounting for the Pi

DIN mounting for the Pi

This is not necessarily an exciting write-up. My main purpose is to show how easy this is and offer it as an alternative to typical cases and power supplies. Earlier in A cluster of Pi's, I referenced DIN mounting for the Pi. DIN rails along with the POE

A cluster of Pi's

A cluster of Pi's

Please see disclaimer First let me acknowledge... What I built is technically a cluster of Pi's, but it is not a cluster system - yet. When the Raspberry Pi 4 was introduced, I spent many hours researching what I could do with it. Clustering was among the top

Home Automation

My server rack

Also known as where all my time and money goes... I bought my first personal computer when I was 13, if memory serves, after mowing a significant number of lawns; A Tandy Color Computer 2, TRS-80 - I am surprised I remember any of those details. Pretty much ever since

NTP shout out

WordPress fun

I had spent the better part of Saturday afternoon creating both a WordPress site and a DokuWiki site. Not really sure of my long-term plans for either but I had decided to make the WordPress public facing on Sunday. That's about where the fun started. Immediately there where

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