MikeSharp01

Wonder if they will keep area codes?

Except loads of others could do it, so Node-RED is Open Source and you can down load it onto your local system, same with many other things and as @ProDave says having them local at least means you cannot be cut off, however your OS upgrades may leave them high and dry and so it is still something of a mine field. The basic MQTT, Broker (could be Mosquito but others are available for local install) and Node-RED combination is hellish robust and fast enough for the average human not to notice the reaction time. So +1 to that.

No it was a Capri all right - mk1 in bronze looked very good! So there is someone else about!

Did I see you trickling across the motorway bridge at Dunton green the other day - if not there must be more than one of you and we might need to call in Capri control to ensure the relevant reproduction rights are taken away

If you want to travel a long way you need to build as abstractly as you can on the shoulders of giants rather that reinventing the wheel all the time. No point in striving for the moon and first setting up a bauxite mine, associated power station and smelter to get the ingredients and then process them into the aluminium for the outer shell! The challenge, as we have seen above is, is choosing your giants on the basis of not just 'does it today' but will continue for a good number of years without the giant disappearing from beneath you!

Would work if there was a node that do the transfer, but I wanted to log straight to a data base from the ESP device and that won't do CSV, on Influx each data point gets its own time stamp and you can give it your own if you want but why bother when influx does it for you.

YES and that's a bit much isn't it. British gas are getting it wrong all over the place. But perhaps you should be more worried, in 20 years time, about this: https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/3/23624328/ford-self-repossessing-car-patent-connected-car-nightmare a bit further down the same page as the Ring info above.

Yes and no, the monitor works fine, but I have not sorted the best data logging approach as yet - have tried Graphana, with inFluxDB which works well on a PC server but overwhelms my RPi (Model 3 B). That and the Universal block software, one heap of code you configure what's connected via the onboard web server interface, just grew like topsy as I added more sensors - so it now has a CO, C02 , Temp, Humidity, Light & IR proximity detector. Plus work is very sticky at the moment and the build fills the remaining chunk of time.

What we need is and open source product with 3D printed package. This tutorial here: https://randomnerdtutorials.com/esp32-cam-video-streaming-web-server-camera-home-assistant/ gets you a lump of the way there, hopefully the ESP32 device, about a £10 er from Amazon, is not spyhardware . Maybe we should make this a BH project for the common good.

Does that imply they don't last twenty years!

Yes I was an SMP kid. I think I still have the 0 level text book somewhere.

I calculate that you have about 15 years worth of tapes to loose at that rate. Retired 10 years (Assumed) 4 tapes lost therefore 6 tapes left = 15 years worth of tapes and I didn't have to ask Chat GPT.

They looked at this IR wallpaper idea on the BBC earlier this month. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64402524

Some of us have been forced to eat the book!

Does that mean they are equally spaced? If you can see them from a position outside the run but on the axis will uneven positioning not offend the eye? Runway lights BAD!

There isn't one as far as I know, Our Building Control scrutinised drawings show a 50mm gap between the inner face of the plaster board and the inner surface of the rafters / joists and that is all the service void we have. If you have to have 30cm (300mm) everywhere rooms would be so much smaller.

I found this: https://armstrongsupplies.co.uk/blogs/faqs/c16-c24-timber#:~:text=C24 timber is roughly 50,as a C24 timber joist. which says that C16 is 50% of the strength (technical term) than C24 so if you want to do it in C16 all you need to do is double them up and bolt them together.

We have that as an option but it requires power to open the rooflights so won't work in a power cut.

Let's see how that goes.

Yes, very interesting read and very well put. NIMBYism is definitely a problem down her, witness the fight the locals in NE Kent put up against the Graveny Solar farm and many other examples. I was somewhat shocked to have the impact of a weak transmission system on the both the cost and carbon spin outs so well demonstrated. As usual the politics of this are at, or very adjacent to, the root of the problem.

Banning idiots is going to be a big job and, of course, everybody will have a different list, such that in the end, where we will all be included on someone's list and so banned - QED.

We finally laid ours in 2018 on the hottest day of the year. It went sort of OK build-up exactly as described but the polishing went wrong on about 20% of surface so we had to have it ground off. We had no expansion cracks and we still have no cracks. There are two layers of mesh with the UFH in between and given there is nothing to stop the concrete moving, it is only constrained by the polystyrene former, I cannot see it will ever crack.

Then the law needs changing.

Will this help 3.5mm Jack to screw terminals. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/174582857145?chn=ps&_trkparms=ispr%3D1&amdata=enc%3A1TemzJXDnShykDZcP_jD01A38&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=710-134428-41853-0&mkcid=2&mkscid=101&itemid=174582857145&targetid=1647205088800&device=m&mktype=pla&googleloc=1006886&poi=&campaignid=17206177401&mkgroupid=136851690655&rlsatarget=pla-1647205088800&abcId=9300866&merchantid=420536914&gclid=CjwKCAiAleOeBhBdEiwAfgmXfzHlzp3M4RK9aoX82l1DeVJs1pt-buCVUFugQuRXuyYmR215VNjzhxoCBwAQAvD_BwE

Cripes - I must find time work through this lot. Interesting to see the improvement the remedial work has made.