Gwmngilfen @gwmngilfen@fosstodon.org

Alright, time for a new home. Fosstodon has been recommend to me by quite a few people as the place that matches my interests, so, uh, here I am!

For those not following me over from mastodon.org.uk, I'm a FOSS community manager, wannabe data scientist, sysadmin and devops enthusiast. Currently very interested in #rstats and #data #analysis, but will happily talk endlessly about pretty much anything.

#introductions

Well I guess I'd better jump on this hashtag... but since I've worked from home for 7 years, I've had time to develop my space a little.

I particularly like my wall of books :)

#ShowYourWorkspace

There we go. Couldn't bothered with piping bags and flour paste for the crosses, so they're just "hot buns" :D

When life gives you lemons, make ... no wait...

An apple a day keeps ... nope.

Ah whatever. These are apple hot cross buns in the making :)

#bread #lockdown #baking

There are silver linings to all this chaos. I made bread for the first time in years today :)

#bread #positive #stayinghome

It's #homeassistant update day! The day where I do all the pending updates to my HA box and hope like hell I don't break the heating ... :D

#sysadminlife

Power cut last night. 2 hours outage.

Happily, my #NoBoiler setup handled it just fine. The UPS kept HomeAssistant online for the whole time, and although the PiHole (DHCP server) went down, the relays all use static IPs. So when the power came back, everything resumed entirely as normal. Win!

Still need to test a complete cold-start (i.e. a cut long enough to kill the UPS and take HomeAssistant out). But it should be fine.

Can-haz-arkitect-skillz!

It's a glamorous life, being a techie. Tonight I'm resurrecting my #pine Rock64 which has been offline for a month or so. Lots of `apt purge` and other cleanup as I prepare it for running a fresh install of #RShiny server.

#sysadminlife #notexciting

Sad to be missing #fosdem this year. Hope you're having a great time folks :)

planning for #CfgMgmtCamp ? Not sure what track(s) to attend? I have you covered!

Behold, my entirely hacky TF-IDF analysis of the talk submissions, broken down by room & day. In other words, what words are common to each room *specifically* in the talks blurb.

#Rstats #textmining #tfidf

With the #NoBoiler panels up and running, I got back into #homeassistant hacking tonight. Achieved:

* sending notifications via SMTP
* auto-off the bathroom panels after an hour
* temperature schedule for my bedroom

The next stuff is more complex, I'm going to have to learn AppDaemon for that, I think... Also need to start the official blog series soon. Exciting!

Project #NoBoiler is live!

All (well almost all) the panels are in, and working. Initial cost indications are favourable, although next week's cold weather will tell, as it's mild at the moment.

Need to check on some thermal expansion/contraction noises I'm hearing, mostly when the panels switch off and cool. Never heard that when they were on the wall.

Also need to code up a "last reported" sensor for the battery powered sensors. One died yesterday, and a room got to 21C before I noticed :)

Today's the day! The electricians have been hard at work wiring the house and fitting the panels. The new fuseboard is installed. The ceilings are ready. Today we start turning them on.

So today we start to find out if this will work...

Exciting! But also scary...

(edited to add hashtags, sorry)

#NoBoiler #apprehensive

TFW none of your 10 temperature sensors has checked in for over 3 hours, and you realise it's because the core IoT router got unplugged by the workmen... ;)