Author Archives: james

Now I’m getting somewhere!

Posted on December 23, 2021 by james

As I posted yesterday, the kwh_accumulator process in emoncms requires Redis to be available. Fortunately there’s a Docker image for that and it was just a case of pulling the image and starting it. I came up with a systemd … Continue reading →

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Piano progress after two weeks

Posted on December 23, 2021 by james

It feels much longer than two weeks. I wonder what that suggests? 🙂 I’ve been practising for about an hour each evening (I skipped one when I had to do a 550-mile round-trip to pick up my son from university). … Continue reading →

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Swimming, 23rd December 2021

Posted on December 23, 2021 by james

Last swim before Christmas and for undetermined reasons it was a very tough one. I really wasn’t on the pace I had yesterday and it took some time to get there. Certainly it wasn’t for lack of trying. My arms … Continue reading →

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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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