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Awesome.

Sitting here at morning star and going through the clubs WiFi I can switch on the lounge lamp.

Need to get some more pow R2's

Need to connect my siren to one of these units so I can annoy my noisy neighbours when I'm not there. Screenshot_2018-06-03-10-43-54-1.jpg
 
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Decided to have a look at my microserver. As just a NAS it was fine, but with the additional load of VMs, containers and such, as well as the odd SATA timeout, it was struggling one little bit.
So found an old motherboard and core i5 cpu - and it worked with the 16GB of ECC ram I have in the microserver...
Fired it up... looking good... but NO!
The initial core i5s don't support BHyve VMs :(
So, back to the trusty old microserver... Whipped the N40 motherboard out and stuck in an N54 board (2.2ghz vs 1.5) and dug up an old article about a custom bios to support AHCI on the 5th SATA port (where I have the OS SSD plugged in)

Seems quite a bit better now...
Need to see how it goes before dropping dosh on a motherboard, cpu and ram that will support bhyve ...
 
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Sinbad said:
Decided to have a look at my microserver. As just a NAS it was fine, but with the additional load of VMs, containers and such, as well as the odd SATA timeout, it was struggling one little bit.
So found an old motherboard and core i5 cpu - and it worked with the 16GB of ECC ram I have in the microserver...
Fired it up... looking good... but NO!
The initial core i5s don't support BHyve VMs :(
So, back to the trusty old microserver... Whipped the N40 motherboard out and stuck in an N54 board (2.2ghz vs 1.5) and dug up an old article about a custom bios to support AHCI on the 5th SATA port (where I have the OS SSD plugged in)

Seems quite a bit better now...
Need to see how it goes before dropping dosh on a motherboard, cpu and ram that will support bhyve ...
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What the VMs for? I was thinking I would need, but unraid Docker covers nearly everything.
 
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calypso said:
What the VMs for? I was thinking I would need, but unraid Docker covers nearly everything.
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Freenas provides a bhyve Vm image with rancher os...
Rancher provides a great management framework for docker
 
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Sinbad

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Seems someone's doing some nice dev work on AppDaemon dashboard widgets :)

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Also got the device tracker stuff working with Google location sharing...
 
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Nice! Has anybody used the seven segment image processor with a camera to decode a prepaid electricity meter reading? Now THAT would be cool.
 
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Efergy just measures power consumption, but imagine reading your prepaid meter units so that you can set up an automation in HA to alert you if your units are running low.
 
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ipodmusicman said:
Efergy just measures power consumption, but imagine reading your prepaid meter units so that you can set up an automation in HA to alert you if your units are running low.
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Surely if it measures power consumption you'll know when you're running low?
 
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True, but you’d need to make sure that when you load elec into your meter that you make sure that the numbers balance so that you get alerted at the right time.
 
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Bad news guys: the price of loading Tasmota is about to go up incrementally.

Sonoff has seen fit to block the GPIO holes with solder - they have to be desoldered before use :/

I'll keep old stock for now for Tasmota and sell the new ones with eWelink.
 
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phaktza said:
Bad news guys: the price of loading Tasmota is about to go up incrementally.

Sonoff has seen fit to block the GPIO holes with solder - they have to be desoldered before use :/

I'll keep old stock for now for Tasmota and sell the new ones with eWelink.
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Don't see that lasting for too long.. think the backlash will be quite severe for them.
 
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ipodmusicman said:
Efergy just measures power consumption, but imagine reading your prepaid meter units so that you can set up an automation in HA to alert you if your units are running low.
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Efergy is not accurate enough. It estimates usage...
 
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Tinuva said:
Don't let that hold you back. I just did my first 2 switches this weekend, where I needed to pull through a neutral. At first it seemed liked a daunting task, but it really is easy.

1. I had my old telkom line taken down (since having vumatel), so used that wire as drop wire, eg. for pulling through 1st time.
2. I don't see it in your pic, but there should be an earth wire screwed to the metal holder. You going to use that.
3. There should be a neutral at the light.

So what you do is, open up the light switch like in your pic.
Next, also open up the light where you replace the bulb, but go further, where you unscrew the whole light from the ceiling, so that you can see all the wires, those that go to the DB board.
At the switch, unscrew the earth, and put the drop cable through it. I then use that brown tape, to cover it and keep it together.
Pull the neutral from the switch to the light. So now you have the drop cable with the 4 live cables in the conduit.
Then measure your earth cable, cut the new neutral to the same length and add it to the cable. Again, put it through the hole that is attached to the earth (that is where the screw go through at the switch). Put tape over again. Pull both the neatral and earth back to the switch. Connect the neutral on both sides, and tada you have a neutral with minimum effort.
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I tried this for 3 lights and I have come to the conclusion that this house had a ****ty electrician. Even the hulk wouldnt be able to pull any of the wires thorugh the conduit. Fishtape cant go though, all dead corner, figure of eights, who know.

My only solution appears be the unused ground wire to each light. If i taped each one of them black could it become a magic neutral? Allowed legally?
 
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