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      <title>How to build a raspberry pi picture frame media pc</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Happy PI Day!!!
A few years back… ok… like 9 years ago. I built an interesting piece of functional art in my living room. It was my media center pc, mounted in a double picture frame on my wall. This thing served me well for a long time. But now it’s time to upgrade it.
After all this time the ATOM board in there has gotten a little sluggish, the distro isn’t supported, the black lights have gone bad, I think there’s a demon in there.]]></description><enclosure url="/2021/03/14/how-to-build-a-raspberry-pi-picture-frame-media-pc/featured.jpg" length="35415" type="image/jpeg" />
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      <title>Progress on the green sprinkler system project!</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 14 Apr 2017 15:44:26 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description><![CDATA[I have made some progress on the green sprinkler system project. I even shot some video recently!!!
Here is some testing of the water quality…. WHO PEED IN MY BARREL!!
Now for the big update!!! Built a battery from recycled 18650 laptop cells. Hooked it to my pump. Drained my rain barrel!! Then charged the battery back up via solar!!!
Man I am feeling kind of green!
Like this guy?]]></description><enclosure url="/2017/04/14/progress-on-the-green-sprinkler-system-project/featured.jpg" length="11206" type="image/jpeg" />
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      <title>Traffic (actual cars) Woes</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[So in the last 2 weeks I have been put to the test of patience and road rage.
Last week there was a guy that decided to take his dog for a walk on the over pass and decided to stop and contemplate jumping. This closed down a 3 lane highway and the 2 joining lanes completely in morning rush hour. Diverted traffic was diverted to a 1 lane exit. I sat in traffic for 3.]]></description><enclosure url="/2016/04/09/traffic-actual-cars-woes/featured.gif" length="27397" type="image/gif" />
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      <title>Green Sprinkler System Project (part 1)</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2016 23:43:45 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description><![CDATA[So I don’t know why, but I have over the last year or so really gotten into doing things with renewable resources (mainly solar). Well, lets say interested in. I have a couple of solar panels I play with but nothing crazy.
So one day I get this crazy idea in my head. I need a rain barrel. But for what!?!?! I had no real need for a Rain Barrel. But this suddenly consumed me.]]></description><enclosure url="/2016/03/07/green-sprinkler-system-project-part-1/featured.jpg" length="44132" type="image/jpeg" />
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      <title>Some projects and upgrades</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2016 18:09:12 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description><![CDATA[So I have a few things on order coming from china for some various projects.
I figured since I haven’t posted much lately I will post some pre-project dribble.
Phoenix Connectors – Aliexpress
I have these coming to be able to connect audio up to my ClearOne XAP800. The XAP800 is going to be added to my Home Automation system to be able to control/mix/route audio from various sources to various destinations.]]></description><enclosure url="/2016/03/04/some-projects-and-upgrades/featured.jpg" length="93461" type="image/jpeg" />
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      <title>OpenHab crashing with Z-Wave FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT!!</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2016 01:09:04 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description><![CDATA[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 for network issues and full machine failover. But the actual process going belly up…. ooops.]]></description><enclosure url="/2016/01/24/openhab-crashing-with-z-wave-fix-it-fix-it-fix-it-fix-it/featured.png" length="168422" type="image/png" />
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      <title>Home Automation Quick Update</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2015 19:20:03 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description><![CDATA[Since I made the home automation system failover its been great!…. except I kind of would like to know which box its running on it. So I made a quick change. A new Item on my dash board
1String Server &#34;Server [%s]&#34; {exec=&#34;&amp;lt;[/bin/cat@@/etc/hostname:60000:]&#34;} I have that in my items file. Then in my sitemap I added
1Text label=&#34;Currently Running on [%s]&#34; item=Server I have that at the bottom of my sitemap.]]></description>
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      <title>Home Automation Move (part 2)</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2015 01:09:41 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description><![CDATA[So, with a friday and a saturday worth of work on my home automation move here is what is complete.
install server os on vm install openhab and all bindings currently in use move openhab configs over to new vm shutdown old openhab-pi configure raspberry pi with virtualhere server to share usb configure new vm server to connect to raspberry pi to communicate with z-wave stick install keepalived on new server configure virtual ip as my new primary ip for openhab access configure scripts to run to start openhab and connect to shared usb clone server to secondary vm for failover reconfigure keepalived to make second box slave test failover So let me show you my keepalived settings and my scripts.]]></description><enclosure url="/2015/11/15/home-automation-move-part-2/featured.png" length="23269" type="image/png" />
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      <title>Home Automation Move (part 1)</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2015 22:25:13 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description><![CDATA[I have been running openhab for over a year now on a raspberry pi. I also run mosquitto mqtt broker with a great piece of software called mqttwarn. On my phone I run owntracks.
So lets do a brief summary of what these pieces of software do for me and what I currently have configured.
**Openhab – “**a vendor and technology agnostic open source automation software for your home.” That is what the site says openhab is and they are right.]]></description><enclosure url="/2015/11/13/home-automation-move-part-1/featured.jpg" length="1597113" type="image/jpeg" />
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