Derailed Weekend Plans

Posted on February 28, 2025 by larry

I was expecting a rack today so I could do some work over the weekend.

Went from this

To This

But this explains it

Ontrac not the greatest when you are expecting a package.

Yikes over 340, that is motivation to start losing weight.

Weight: 340.2

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Starting New Project

Posted on February 27, 2025 by larry

Yes I know, I haven’t finished couple others.

This new one is a simple keypad and LCD display to enter in my weight, since I cannot figure out how the scale broadcasts the weight on it.

I did get parts for the other projects I am working on, ordered screws for the SMS Gateway and the RJ11 jacks did come in for the Lastman project.

Weight: 336.8

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US Citizen

Posted on February 26, 2025 by larry

I was born in the USA so I am a US Citizen, but today I helped a relative become a US Citizen.

What an interesting experience

We left my place at about 11:20AM for a 12:10 appointment. We were informed not to get there more than an 1/2 an hour before the appointment.

We got there and parking was interesting, there was a a kiosk to pay, but opted to use the mobile app. Parking was $8 but on the app it it was 8.50.

Security was like going through the airport, take off jacket and belt but everything in a bin and get it scanned.

Then you stand in a line and check in. Upstairs there is a waiting area, I can’t speak to what happens, cause I was not allowed to go in, but they went into a room when their number was called for an Interview. What was interesting was that the people next to us got there before us yet got called in after us.

Recall it was a 12:10 appointment, we missed the 1PM ceremony so we hung around till the 2:30 Swearing in ceremony. The waiting continued in the auditorium but we were doing stuff like swearing in and got the certificate by 3PM.

Treated them to a celebration late lunch.

Weight: 338.0

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Wasted Test Prints

Posted on February 25, 2025 by larry

Went through a lot of filament getting the right print.

Check this gridfinity lids I printed

This is the bottom of the lid, the first two on the left were printed upside down, but the 3rd one was using tree support. It made things way worse, settled on the last one, mild stringing but people will not see it.

Here is the top view, the first two show why I didnt go that route, it is ugly. The last one was the way to go.

Haven’t been sleeping right, did not sleep well at all today. Called in sick to work. Sleepy all day.

Weight: 339.2

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Struggling With Sleep

Posted on February 24, 2025 by larry

I am toying with the idea of going back to ambien. Been having a hard time to sleep.

Makes me very unproductive during the day.

I did a few things to keep me going though, tonight I am going to try and sleep early.

Another thing I been exploring was getting up minecraft servers again. I was able to get up a a new R9.5 based AMI on to AWS. That will be the basis of my minecraft servers.

Weight: 339.2

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More LTE Modules Coming In

Posted on February 23, 2025 by larry

I got couple SMS modules coming in, the last of this project, I also I added two new phone lines on the tello system.

Maybe be end of week I can do my first video in a long time.

I got the final build too for the modem box. 3D printed, looks really good. I do not some M3 18mm screws to finish the project.

Weight: 339.8

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Using mmcli as non-root

Posted on February 22, 2025 by larry

Trying to figure out how to send SMS messages using mmcli and not being root.

I thought I had it and was ready. Here are my short notes

First you have to add the user to the dialout group

Then you have to create a polkit rule

polkit.addRule(function(action, subject) {
if ((action.id == "org.freedesktop.ModemManager1.Control" || action.id == "org.freedesktop.ModemManager1.Messaging") &&
subject.isInGroup("dialout")) {
return polkit.Result.YES;
}
});

Then reload polkit and you should be good.

Want to try this from a fresh non gui system. My change things.

Weight: 339.8

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Short Week, Another Weekend

Posted on February 21, 2025 by larry

Was a 4 day week, got a lot done in a short time.

Looking at more WWLAN modules, went to RePC and there were none.

I found something but was told be them that it was mini PCI not M.2

Anyway, want to do some documentation this weekend on setting up an SMS gateway.

Weight: 338.0

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Filament Supply

Posted on February 20, 2025 by larry

Ran out of filament again, so in the month of February 2025, I purchased more filament than I have since I got the ender 3.

Part of it is the AMS, another thing that that bambu just works.

Also it is so much easier to replace the filament in the bambu than in the Ender 3.

Technology has improved.

Been a busy day, one cool thing is I got my 10k steps. As I post it is at 11,000 and I do got 10 floors. First time this year.

Weight: 338.6

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Resetting LTE Module

Posted on February 19, 2025 by larry

I think I am finally understanding these used modules I have gotten.

These have prior settings in the module that needs to be erased.

This command showed a lot of the prior owners stuff.

qmicli -d /dev/cdc-wdm0 -p --wds-get-profile-list=3gpp

I think the fix is from here https://wirelessjoint.com/viewtopic.php?t=1269

In my case I stopped ModemManager

systemctl stop ModemManager

Then launched minicom

minicom -D /dev/ttyUSB2

Then I ran the following 

AT!ENTERCND="A710"
AT!RMARESET=1

I waited then actually rebooted the whole machine, I think all I needed to do was reset the module.

When it came back up I went back in to minicom and ran

AT!ENTERCND="A710"
AT!SELRAT=06
AT!BAND=00
AT!RESET

All those profiles were gone

Also checked 

AT!GSTATUS?

And low and behold it was registered.

Started up ModemManager and I was golden

My day is not done, as I post it is 11:34PM, gonna do some pushups and situps, then head in to the office to run a multi hour job.

Weight: 337.8

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