Technology related blogs
And finally we have solar. It’s been a while coming, but here now. Only 2/3 installed (waiting for a software update for the last 1/3 to get installed). Will want the rest in place before winter.
I’m finding it really interesting to watch the flow of current.
My Schlage smart lock is finally working with HomeKit – really nice to be able to use the lock like this. It took a firmware update but now seems to be playing nicely.
Next step will be the garage gate control – parts ordered.
Just looking for the best WordPress spreadsheet plugin
Probably WPDataTables looks best. Had to increase the maximum upload size of a file by editing the .htaccess file in the www directory. It was still set at a 2MB maximum.
I’m surprised that this is still the case, it must have been higher in the past. Presumably before I migrated to this server.
Continue reading SpreadsheetsIts been a while since I’ve posted. I’ve been busy with the new job.
I thought I should also put some links to useful apps for a Mac here for future reference:
Rectangle lets you move apps around on the screen using keyboard controls to quickly position multiple apps.
Karabiner Elements lets you reprogram keyboard keys for different meanings. Particularly useful is to remap the caps-lock key to something useful (eg ctrl-alt-command-shift) to give you another key control
Dozer is a menu bar app that lets you hide other menu bar apps as required.
Turns out that you can’t ride in a group of more than 2 adults during lockdown. So pretty depressing.
On the plus side:
Apple Watch ECG
So the public beta of IOS now enables the ECG app. Enough reason to go the public beta really. That and face mask unlocking
Getting back on my bicycle. Its good, as is planning for the trip down south with my mates.
Plus, upgraded my Mac mini to Big Sur, after getting the latest version of parallels to run the VM for my older software development environment for rostering.
So… All good really
This weekend has been a tough one, but hopefully now the network (and therefore this blog site amongst other things) should run more smoothly. I’ve been having worsening failures with the Linksys Velop mesh system. Rather than trying to fix that, I’ve gone and bought a dedicated ubiquity router and put that into the network as the main router.
This means that the server now connects directly to the internet via the router, and isn’t dependent on the Linksys devices at all. If they fail, only the wifi around the house will go down.
More importantly, it lets me put the Linksys Velop devices into bridge mode. Interestingly, only two of the five Linksys devices can do that – the ones I got more recently from the UK amazon sale. The ones that have UK plugs. But even with two of them the coverage around the house seems ok. I would note that the device that failed constantly as the parent node was not one of these two, so maybe that will improve things.
Also, I’ve been able to move the wifi out of the server space (and therefore the heat) so they might well do better in the rooms at room temperature.
We will see…
Well, its been a bit of an adventure, but I think I have most of the upstairs set up with smart lighting. Probably need another six lights for the kitchen to finish it off, but mostly there now which is good.
And its very pretty…
Best article I’ve seen in a while. Explains what the raw and pro raw format are all about.
I think I’ve discovered quite a bit about how phone cameras work in general and obviously about iPhones in specific.
That was a fairly painless upgrade to the server. Now running on the 20.04 LTS. Seems to be working as expected. Which is kind of the point really.
So I’ll probably upgrade a few more of the virtual machines soon to get them to the latest LTS. Although I think I have till 2023 to have to do this…