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…
Month: December 2016
More Dashboard Buttons
This is about creating buttons for Node-Red Dashboard. If you’re looking in for the first time – this is what Node-Red Dashboard buttons currently look like. The light blue background colour can be changed as can the text colour but that’s about it. And when you press on them, there…
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…
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 –…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…