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Month: December 2016

Project Boxes

December 28, 2016January 9, 2017 Peter Scargillenclosures, project boxes35 Comments on Project Boxes

For those few of us left in the world who don’t have 3d printers… boxes for our projects are always an issue…  I’ve decided I want to use DIN rail enclosures because in Spain, the large household Din rail mains boxes are dirt cheap – just need some enclosures for…

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Customising Node-Red Dashboard Buttons

December 20, 2016November 30, 2020 Peter Scargillbuttons1 Comment on Customising Node-Red Dashboard Buttons

This entry is about creating custom buttons for Node-Red Dashboard. If you’re looking in for the first time – this simple cyan rectangle on the right is what Node-Red Dashboard buttons currently look like. Without some effort, the cyan background colour can be changed as can the text colour but…

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The Ongoing Knob

December 20, 2016December 20, 2016 Peter Scargilljquery, jquery knob, node red dashboard, node-red2 Comments on The Ongoing Knob

I refer you to this article if you’re new in here – https://tech.scargill.net/more-dashboard-goodness/ – we’ve been having a lively discussion and lots of exciting new possibilities coming out of a chance discovery of the JQUERY KNOB and what is now our ability to integrate that with Node-Red. The purpose of…

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The Orange Pi Zero

December 19, 2016August 1, 2017 Peter ScargillDebian, orange Pi Zero76 Comments on The Orange Pi Zero

Those of you who read my stuff will know that I’ve never been impressed by the Orange Pi boards – the utter lack of communication from the company really is stunning and initially the boards used to get very hot – but then came Armbian and all that changed –…

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More from Sonoff

December 19, 2016January 12, 2017 Peter Scargillsonoff, sonoff sc53 Comments on More from Sonoff

Today I got a couple of new(ish) gadgets from Sonoff – one being a UK version of their WIFI mains adaptor. So the point of this if you don’t know Sonoff is that their stuff is solid and inexpensive – not two words you normally find in the same sentence.…

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Merry Christmas

December 18, 2016December 18, 2016 Peter ScargillGeneral11 Comments on Merry Christmas

Some of you may be heading off home to see family so we might not hear from you for a little while. Others will be settling down at home for a Christmas of gadgets… Either way, by Christmas there’s a good chance there will be 6,000 of you signed up…

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Virtual Pi

December 17, 2016December 18, 2016 Peter ScargillDietPi, virtualbox25 Comments on Virtual Pi

Every time I screw up badly, I end up having to go through to the house, swap SDs on the Raspberry Pi and start another backup. AND I’m told by our friend from Raspbian that I should not be doing this as live backups are asking for problems. Now, to…

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More Dashboard Goodness

December 17, 2016December 20, 2016 Peter ScargillGeneral61 Comments on More Dashboard Goodness

Last week, I got as far as some new buttons on Node-Red Dashboard along with fancy colour change and vibrate – you’ll see some new buttons if you head off back to that entry. So, what’s those  round things with numbers in them?  No,  not more gauges – but CONTROLS…

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Node Red Weather

December 15, 2016April 30, 2020 Peter ScargillDarkSky, node-red, node-red-dashboard, Skycons, weather60 Comments on Node Red Weather

This blog entry is now HISTORICAL as DarkSky have  pulled a fast one on everyone except Apple users. A later blog entry here has more information on alternatives. One of the many things that Node-Red makes easy to capture – is the weather – and until recently, all credit was…

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The Script (Original Article)

December 13, 2016August 20, 2019 Peter ScargillGeneral26 Comments on The Script (Original Article)

It occurs to me that I regularly refer to my “script” – without ever having detailed what it does!  I’ll fix that now. The “script” is something Aidan and I originally put together for our own use, mainly to help when running home control systems – to simplify Debian Jessie…

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Icons

December 10, 2016 Peter Scargillicons9 Comments on Icons

I am always on the lookout for icons, be it for my Node-Red projects (Dashboard) or to replace icons on my Windows Desktop or for other projects – sometimes I need .PNG but in the case of Windows desktop – they should be .ICO files. So on a random hunt…

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Node-Red Dashboard Thoughts

December 9, 2016April 16, 2020 Peter Scargillnode red dashboard38 Comments on Node-Red Dashboard Thoughts

Or put another way – how to use Node-Red Dashboard without a mouse cursor or a menu – on a touch screen. I’ve been playing with the touch-LCD screen on a Raspberry Pi – this was a Chinese one – quite cheap.. “5 inch HDMI LCD V2” – an 800*480…

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Yule Be Impressed

December 8, 2016December 8, 2016 Peter ScargillGeneral1 Comment on Yule Be Impressed

Or not – as the case may be. This is my attempt to revive an old, bust Christmas decoration. The original Christmas candle decoration was a white casing, simply filled with static, old-school filament lighting – and as happens one of them went by the by. We don’t keep spares…

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NPM Update Status

December 7, 2016December 10, 2016 Peter ScargillNode, node-red, npm29 Comments on NPM Update Status

If you are a Node-Red fan (and if not – why not) – you’ll know that the NODES – i.e. the modules that are provided with Node-Red or that people like myself create – get updated every now and then.  And it is a pain in the bum to keep…

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Playing with WIO

December 6, 2016December 7, 2016 Peter Scargillwiolink17 Comments on Playing with WIO

We’ve had a very busy weekend – a friend of mine, Jonathan who’s another gadget guy stopped over and while the girls went shopping we spent the weekend been buried away in the man-cave experimenting. Firstly – a link for you – if you have an LG TV – here’s…

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Grove LCD RGB Backlight

December 6, 2016 Peter ScargillESP12, ESP12E, ESP12F, ESP8266, Seeed1 Comment on Grove LCD RGB Backlight

Now, before anyone says anything – no I’m not advertising Seeed or their Grove stuff. It just so happens that over the weekend my pal brought some of their stuff over to have a play with and I was particularly taken by the LCD display. This is a typical Hitachi-style…

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Weekend fun

December 5, 2016December 5, 2016 Peter ScargillAmazon Dash13 Comments on Weekend fun

One of the toys I’ve been playing with this weekend is the Amazon Dash – contributed by visiting read JAY when he popped over to see me last week. Oh, before I start – anyone using the SOURCE of my ESP code – (not Arduino IDE) – if you fancy…

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What is Klikr?

December 5, 2016December 6, 2016 Peter ScargillBluetooth, Infra-red, Klikr7 Comments on What is Klikr?

Today I became the proud owner of a Klikr – my friend Jonathan dropped one in for me – so, this afternoon I decided to investigate. Here it is seen photographed next to my Samsung Gear Classic watch on my normal size hand to put it into perspective. I have…

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Weather 2 Board and ESP8266

December 4, 2016 Peter ScargillBME280, ESP-12, ESP-12E, ESP-12F, ESP8266, i2c, SI11321 Comment on Weather 2 Board and ESP8266

NOT the cheapest board on the planet, I was handed a couple of these little boards by a friend this weekend.. the weather-2 board. The board uses 2 i2c chips – the BME280 which as you may know is a miraculous little chip offering temperature, humidity and pressure readings all…

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