Monthly Archives: December 2021

My first foray into sloe cordial

Posted on December 23, 2021 by james

I’ve never tried this before, but with about 1kg of sloes left over after I’d made the sloe vodka it seemed worth a try. It’s really quite straightforward to do, too. I used: 1kg sloes 1 litre water juice of … Continue reading →

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Never mind steps forwards and backwards…

Posted on December 22, 2021 by james

Over the last couple of evenings I think I’ve been all around the houses 🙁 I pushed my new device templates into emoncms, but they just wouldn’t work properly. The various processes didn’t get set up and I kept getting … Continue reading →

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The cleanest seed in all the county…

Posted on December 22, 2021 by james

I allowed some of my coriander to run to seed this year. I didn’t want the seed to replant as that particular variety seems to gallop into flower at the slightest sign of sunshine. I was interested in having some … Continue reading →

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Sloe vodka time again

Posted on December 22, 2021 by james

My sloes have been sitting in the freezer for a fair while waiting for me to get around to doing something with them. I finally got to it. After purchasing such a number of bottles of vodka that it’s embarrassing … Continue reading →

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Swimming, 22nd December 2021

Posted on December 22, 2021 by james

It’s getting very quiet at the pool as Christmas approaches. I think there were at most seven swimmers in the session today. I wasn’t feeling too great but my 50m set actually went quite well in the end. I had … Continue reading →

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Second take on emoncms device template for RFXmeter

Posted on December 21, 2021 by james

I felt I needed to revisit the template for my RFXmeter devices because what’s really required is kWh consumption figures between readings rather than cumulative values. Also there needs to be a way to handle the count values rolling over. … Continue reading →

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systemd configuration file for RFXcom to MQTT Perl script

Posted on December 21, 2021 by james

First job of the evening (at least, first indoor job of the evening) was to come up with a unit file to start the Perl script that takes power consumption data from my RFXcom unit and publishes it to MQTT. … Continue reading →

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Two steps forward, one step back

Posted on December 21, 2021 by james

This evening I made rather better progress with emoncms than I did a couple of days ago. I decided to go all-in and set up supervisord to control the processes running in the Docker container and that seemed to work … Continue reading →

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Swimming, 20th December 2021

Posted on December 20, 2021 by james

I didn’t get to swim on Sunday which was a disappointment. Apparently Everyone Active’s booking system “lost” the session details so they couldn’t be booked. They’d have let me in to swim if I’d turned up though. Shame the receptionist … Continue reading →

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Why do Hermes still exist?

Posted on December 20, 2021 by james

The world being the way it is, we’ve probably had more deliveries than usual this winter. Quite a number of them have, sadly, been misdelivered by Hermes. Some have merely been several days late on a “next day” or “48 … Continue reading →

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