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OWFS Server on The Raspberry Pi

November 14, 2012 - Geek , Home , Home Automation , Linux - by admin - 1 Comment

Quick and simple this one is. I have a DS9490R (internally it’s a DS1490F) one-wire bus master attached to my Raspberry Pi. 4 DS18B20 temperature sensors are hanging off the bus, and I’d like to access them from the home automation server. On the Raspberry Pi, or the server/device that’s […]

MQTT GPIO Monitoring

October 25, 2012 - Geek , Home , Home Automation , Linux - by admin - No Comments

My little Raspberry Pi seems to be growing arms and legs. The other day I hooked up a simple PIR to it. I can’t remember where I got it, but it runs off 5v, consumes a low enough amount of milliAmps to be directly connected to the Raspberry Pi 5v […]

Making XBMC work on Mint 12, with HDMI Audio Passthrough and LIRC

December 11, 2011 - Computers , Geek , Home , Home Automation , Linux - by admin - No Comments

I’ve got a Dell Optiplex 755 hooked up to my Yamaha amp and surround system, and it was about time XBMC was installed on it. It uses a low profile Nvidia GeForce 8400GS for VDPAU acceleration and HDMI audio. These are some rough notes I took whilst setting it up. […]

Typical

September 4, 2008 - Home - by admin - No Comments

This is why women should not be left to do electrical work 🙂

Free cooker

February 3, 2008 - Home - by admin - 2 Comments

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.