Monthly Archives: December 2021

One step forward, two steps back

Posted on December 17, 2021 by james

I’ve spent a happy (hah!) evening trying to work out why emoncms wasn’t recording any data from MQTT. The documentation seems to claim it “just works”, but I just couldn’t see anything happening, even when I’d checked that the code … Continue reading →

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Publishing RFXmeter power sensor data to MQTT

Posted on December 16, 2021 by james

More hunting around for helpful modules led me to believe that the easiest way to get data from my RFXmeter sensors into MQTT/mosquitto so it can be read by emoncms was to stick with Perl and use the Device::RFXCOM and … Continue reading →

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Swimming, 16th December 2021

Posted on December 16, 2021 by james

My shoulders felt very tired whilst I was warming up today so I wasn’t expecting to achieve much, but actually it didn’t turn out too badly in the end. I did fail two of my 50m reps, but the first … Continue reading →

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Adding support for new devices to emoncms

Posted on December 16, 2021 by james

To be clear: I’m not certain this is the right way to go about this. It’s mostly based on guesswork and assumption from what I’ve scraped together reading around the discussions about emoncms. For the moment it appears to be … Continue reading →

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Setting up emoncms in Docker

Posted on December 15, 2021 by james

As I posted earlier, there’s a github project for setting up emoncms in Docker, but the configuration assumes that a MySQL instance will be set up in a second Docker image and everything built together with docker-compose, which wasn’t what … Continue reading →

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Swimming, 15th December 2021

Posted on December 15, 2021 by james

Having taken Monday off because I didn’t feel great I went back to the pool today not really knowing what to expect. As it turned out, my 50m reps weren’t that bad and I only failed one, though I did … Continue reading →

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The power monitoring plan is coming together

Posted on December 14, 2021 by james

As I may want to use power consumption data (and other information, such as data from the weather station) in a number of different applications, I’ve come to the conclusion that MQTT may be a way forward, allowing those applications … Continue reading →

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Tonight Matthew, I am Dremel repair man

Posted on December 13, 2021 by james

I posted a few days ago that my Dremel 4000 had died and that I suspected the thermal fuse to be the cause. Here’s how I fixed it. The first steps to getting inside the case are to remove the … Continue reading →

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Piano, four days in

Posted on December 12, 2021 by james

I’ve been practising every day and the simple stuff seems to be coming more easily now, but it’s far too early to make a decision between the two books I’ve been reading to learn. Andrew Furmanczyk’s videos I’m losing faith … Continue reading →

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Swimming, 12th December 2021

Posted on December 12, 2021 by james

Another no-so-great performance today. Better than Thursday, but not at the level I was at prior to that. Tiredness still affecting me I think, or my daughter’s cold. I stuck with it though, just because I didn’t want to leave … Continue reading →

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