Category Archives: Training

This is all items related to my physical training.

It was the Antenna

Posted on January 28, 2025 by larry

I been going nuts with the errors I was getting on my pi LTE module, called T-Mobile support and reached out to a friend who worked at T-Mobile as well. It “should” work. I knew I had an antenna, I … Continue reading →

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Message Box Gen 4 Plus Done

Posted on January 27, 2025 by larry

I am done with this gen of the PLUS model, still working on the normal model. Looks pro, moving on to either the standard message box or the Last Man project. So the software I discovered was the called gammu, … Continue reading →

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Disaster, Message Box Face Broke

Posted on January 26, 2025 by larry

Of all things to happen, I was about to finish putting together the faceplate for the production Message board plus when the faceplate slid off the table. When it landed on the floor, the four standoffs holding the LCD display … Continue reading →

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On to the next phase

Posted on January 25, 2025 by larry

Regarding my nagios pi box, got all the parts, I can get it a least all together to do logic testing. Got nagios running today, and will get the phone thing working soon too. Maybe tomorrow. That is not all … Continue reading →

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Got Major Pieces

Posted on January 24, 2025 by larry

Almost got all the pieces, I know I got all the major components. The relay should be coming in soon, which would complete all the electronic components. I may opt for a Voltage Regulator. Going to play with the POTS … Continue reading →

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LTE Board

Posted on January 23, 2025 by larry

Got my LTE board and installed in on my Pi Kind of cool, couple things, I had to connect the USB connection to make both the tty and the NIC appear. I do not intend to send out traffic out … Continue reading →

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Parts Coming In Quick

Posted on January 22, 2025 by larry

So this is the last man standing project. Subject to change of course. I have all the major parts in that drawing except for the LTE unit. That is expected to come in tomorrow. I could theoretically have this functional … Continue reading →

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Too Many Projects

Posted on January 21, 2025 by larry

Adding another project to my list of things I am working on. It was a Raspberry Pi based monitoring, that will be the last host standing in the event of a power outage. Today was the first time installing Rocky … Continue reading →

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Place Clean Enough

Posted on January 20, 2025 by larry

Wow, got a lot of things in place. I would say our home is in a good place, not really clean, but functional again. I feel like taking another week off to organize the house more. So much progress. My … Continue reading →

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Basement Done Somewhat

Posted on January 19, 2025 by larry

Yesterday worked upstairs, I would have continued upstairs today but my daughter works from home tomorrow so I needed to get some stuff cleaned up downstairs. Unfortunately, I just got stuff out of the way, did not do a true … Continue reading →

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