Some of you know, I really like lithium ion batteries *shocked* Shut it! This is a short post, I don’t need you hamming up the works. Just wait till I show up in your videos…. You wouldn’t…. Hello…. Oh hell….. Ok, lets not worry about that now. I picked up a pretty sweet haul of batteries this week. 22lbs. I counted...

Ok, we have all done it. Where the hell is my phone? Where’s the ipad? Home alone trying to find it and you have no way of calling it because, well, no land line. A week or so ago I finally replaced my Jurassic period thermostat with something a little newer. I know, weird right. I do all this stuff and I had a...

So, my openhab system periodically decides to leave the building. Appears there is a problem from time to time when the z-wave binding loses communication to the z-wave stick it gets upset and tells openhab to take a hike. This is bad. Once because it exposed something I missed in my fault tolerance. I had compensated...