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
One of the many things that Node-Red makes easy to capture – is the weather – and all credit is due to the people who put the DARKSKY API together. What you are seeing above is a 6 day forecast in ANIMATED, COLOUR images (I appreciate it does not look…
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…
More Node-Red Dashboard Success
Well, it looks like my revelations with hiding the mouse has upset WordPress – the previous blog on the subject makes some people’s mice disappear! Good job I wasn’t testing a self-destruct button. It’s been a good day today – I discovered SLACK and I’ve been happily chatting to folk…
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…