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Rain estimate logic

So the home automation does voice control, charging but not overcharging devices, auto lights by lux and/or motion. What next? Estimating rain (to prep outside etc) seemed logical. But it seems, not easy. What to factor into the logic? RH changes and rate of change, lux changes, rate of change and brightness for time of…
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ben 2020-12-25 0

Finding dup VM IP clash

Whoops. I started to experience odd behaviours in my node-red home automation tonight – it seemed to keep forgetting saves I’d made. I SSH’d to the VM to investigate. It kept seemingly randomly booting my session. I figured it was having a segfault and worried about SSD corruption. However a session to the VM from…
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ben 2020-12-15 0