Category Archives: Technical

End of Year Here

Posted on December 20, 2019 by larry

This was a fast year, time for reflection and to plan for next year. Almost finish with my pi project but came across another one that I thought of, a pi zero that can act as a personal firewall. Also … Continue reading →

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Bad Cables for Pi

Posted on December 19, 2019 by larry

Frustrating, but there is a bad cable in my batch. Wasted time trying to figure out why I could not get access to the usb ethernet interface. I put it away, it was a good brand too. Now to document … Continue reading →

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Learning Python

Posted on December 18, 2019 by larry

Starting to get deeper in to Python. Its not bad, trying to get a a listing of dates of when my bills are due. Rough day, son had it worse. Hoping he will learn some life lessons today.

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Getting Hard To Get Tags

Posted on December 17, 2019 by larry

These tags in boxes are getting harder to find. I am confident I will have enough. My search to find a box to contain them all continues though. I thought I finally found one at harbor freight but it had … Continue reading →

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New Small PC

Posted on December 14, 2019 by larry

Purchased a small rig with USB3 so I can image USB and other things quicker. Unfortunately it has only 16GB of hard drive space, but overall it is cheaper than a Raspberry Pi. Of course it consumes more power. Ordered … Continue reading →

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Going to Pi4

Posted on December 12, 2019 by larry

Was thinking about using Pi4 for sensors around the house, but did not realize it had a bunch of changes. Different Power Supply, different video, different case. May get one or two for a NAS, but I think that is … Continue reading →

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Final Order of Tags

Posted on December 11, 2019 by larry

I think I have enough tags for this project. Wish they are all the same but they are not. This final order is through AliExpress. My last order was bad, I am not sure how this one will fare. But … Continue reading →

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Need More Tags and Pis

Posted on December 10, 2019 by larry

I have about 60 tags and 9 Raspberry Pi’s. Of those 9 Pis two will be spares and considered development boxes. As I site here I count 3 of the 9 are here. On the way are 4 more. So … Continue reading →

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Got New Tags And Nodes Up

Posted on December 9, 2019 by larry

They are in production. Got my Adafruit order in and now I am able to get another node up. Also a student expressed interest in coding, going to see what I can do for her. Lot of things happened today, … Continue reading →

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Stand alone working BLE Sentry Working

Posted on December 8, 2019 by larry

I was able to get a standalong BLE Sentry working acting as an AP using hostapd and the USB0 interface. The magic that made the networking work was having nohook wpa_supplicant in /etc/dhcpcd.conf Another thing was switching from isc-dhcp to … Continue reading →

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