Category Archives: New Toys

Burned Out

Posted on July 28, 2016 by larry

With my hip in pain, plus the little sleep I had the past few days, I decided to just take a break. I cleaned my office a bit. Just doing pushups and situps. I did finally get a C.H.I.P and … Continue reading →

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Finally Got Custom BIOS on Optiplex

Posted on July 21, 2016 by larry

What a fight, but I got it on smack dab in the morning.  I guess I needed to sleep it off. Same thing with work, I was trying to figure out something via SSL yesterday, I left thinking I was … Continue reading →

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Building Out The Dell 760

Posted on July 17, 2016 by larry

Got a Dell 760 tower yesterday.  Finally got to building it.  Looks like it will take a while to build due to Microsoft Windows Patches. Looks good though, seems to run fine.  As I posted I already installed a newer … Continue reading →

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Running Again

Posted on June 29, 2016 by larry

Ran for the first time since Rock and Roll, felt OK, not great.  But it did feel good to run again.  I didn’t time it but it was a Cedar river run of 1/2 a mile with a walk of … Continue reading →

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Fathers Day 2016

Posted on June 19, 2016 by larry

I got to chill for the day.  Of course I am still hurting from yesterday, I think I will do some simple pushups and situps today. During the day I was able to hobble around and look  up some stuff. … Continue reading →

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OpenHAB Production

Posted on June 5, 2016 by larry

OK, I got openhab in production.  Looks good, hope it works out. Need to figure out how to lock things down more though.  Am going to VPN in probably. Also, interesting thing about VPN, I got a Linksys router to … Continue reading →

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New OpenHab Server

Posted on June 3, 2016 by larry

With the house newly wired, I am setting up a new openhab server. I pulled some of the old configs, but am now implementing weather. Not gonna lie, this openhab stuff is tough and confusing. I can see why people … Continue reading →

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Finally Got A Garage Door Sensor

Posted on June 1, 2016 by larry

Finally got my garage door sensor working. This actually sits on the floor and not on the ceiling.  I still need to seal the holes around the sensor, also I it is doing a web notification and not a MQTT. … Continue reading →

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New DSL Line

Posted on May 24, 2016 by larry

Wow, got this new DSL line and I get some speed. I was supposed to get a better upload speed though, closer to 40Mbit. Didn’t run today, worked on this DSL most of the evening.  It is delicate.

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Problems Getting Harder

Posted on May 19, 2016 by larry

As I go through working with openhab, I am beginning to come across harder problems. Finally got charting going, it is HARD. Maybe a week from now I will think nothing of it. Not sure what I am doing right … Continue reading →

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