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Friday, July 22, 2016

OSX’s “powerd” daemon has some bugs...

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There are   man y  threads on the internet about problems with the “powerd” daemon in OSX using up huge amounts of CPU time until everythi...
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Wednesday, June 22, 2016

A return to projects and a Vera upgrade...

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It appears it’s been more than a year since I last blogged about a project. It’s been a fascinating year and all good things, but so busy. I...
Friday, May 8, 2015

XTension Smart Meter Reader Kit

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I am pleased and proud to announce the  XTension Smart Meter Reader Kit The arduino IDE compatible board reads the calibration pulses ...
Sunday, April 26, 2015

XTdb update and Lightning Sensor for XTension

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Lots of work done recently on the day job over at  XTension . An updated version of the graphing and database add on to the program that p...
Monday, February 9, 2015

A Comcast/Xfinity modem upgrade story that doesn’t end in tragedy.

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Comcast/Xfinity is working hard to get everyone off Docsis 2 modems and to install Docsis 3 ones. They are so hell bent on it that they have...
Monday, January 5, 2015

My pick for the best LED bulb to use with home automation dimmers

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Phillips and Cree seem to be in tight competition for your LED bulb money. They both have cheap and cheaper versions of their bulbs now in m...
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Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Serial2tcp sharing a serial port on your computer to a remote device

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There are dozens of ways to connect to remote devices from XTension  but it occurred to me that there isn’t a simple way to just share one c...