Archive for the ‘Home’ Category.
Free cooker
A free cooker to the first taker. It’s all in nice working order, has been kept mostly clean by Charlotte, and has loyally prevented us from starving on many an occasion.
Collect from Yoker.
MythTV Remote
For a long time now, our MythTV setup at home has been entirely reliant on the full sized wireless keyboard sitting on the coffee table to control it. I’ve had two Hauppauge Nova-T remotes sitting idle for a long time now, pending me getting my finger out and making them work. Well, it’s finally done. A big thanks to Garry Parker and his MythTV Tips page.
The handheld remote now has full control over the MythTV install, from volume and channel navigation, to menu navigation and playback control. All done through the evdev kernel interface, with a handy smattering of LIRC support.
Climbing Cats
I taught the cats how to climb the ladder to the loft. Initially they were a bit dubious about it, but now they’ll do it at a seconds notice. Just to get up to the big playground up above…
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A recent discussion on IRC has prompted this. At the least, it’s a shout out to Adam Sampson, who usefully provided all the info required in order to monitor your electricity usage by your home PC.
I’ve been monitoring my electricity usage since the begininning of December, using the same hardware that Adam describes on his web page. The only difference being in readmeter.c, where he suggests monitoring port 0×80, but it should be 0×20 in order to watch the ACK pin. Big thanks to Gordon for that bit of information. Gordon also wrote up lovely bit of PHP that displays the current power usage in almost real time.
For those that are curious, the spikes in the graphs at night are due to the night store heating that we have in the flat. One day we’ll get rid of it, but for now it’s here to stay.
Roombacam
It’s be lounging on my drive for a while now, and I’ve finally transcoded it into something useful. It’s a short clip of my Roomba going about its duties in the flat, as I tromp about in front of it trying to guide it to somewhere useful.
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One of Times Best Inventions of 2006 – the Floating Bed. What a fantastic idea 