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Health
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Indoor Plants – the VOC solution
This study from NASA in 1989 shows us one of the most efficient way to purify air from toxins is house plants! So if you do want to […]
car / electronics
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Manual Torque Converter Override for EF Falcon
My contribution to ford mods. http://www.fordmods.com/gearbox-suspension-brake-driveline-f4/torque-converter-lock-up-override-circuit-t36733.html
LoRaWAN
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How to set up an alert
I wanted Home assistant to alert my phone of the Main water tank has a leak. (Is emptying too fast for longer than 1/2 hr)
Wayne
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WordPress ‘Incompatible Archive’ error
In WordPress 6.4.3 there’s a bug that when you try to upload a zipped theme to your self-hosted WordPress installation from a Mac you get this error. The […]
computers
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How to save money uploading to Amazon S3
I recently uploaded a static site to Amazon S3. Here is my invoice of the costs: Let me explain these AWS transfer cost and maybe you can save […]
electronics
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Lorawan
Setting up a LoRaWAN gateway for our hobby farm to check the water levels and turn pumps on and off. Firstly I set up one of these, the […]
LoRaWAN
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How to add a new LoRaWAN end device in Node-RED in Home Assistant
Here is the flow of data: All these elements need to be installed into Home Assistant. The RAK gateway forwards nicely to Home Assistant. It’s a WISgate RAK7268V2 […]
Wayne
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LoRaWAN in Node-RED
When you are entering the device ID, it needs to be lowercase. Here: application/depthdam/device/a84041d0a1886fb0/rx uppercase does not work I think this is because it’s a simple text match […]
Wayne
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My sudden hearing problem
In July 2023 I went instantly deaf in one ear and to cut a long story short it turns out I have something called SSHL or Sudden Senseroneural […]
LoRaWAN
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Understanding LoRaWAN payloads
I have a Dragino Water Pressure meter and the depth values didn’t seem to be updating. So I was trying to work out which numbers in the raw […]
LoRaWAN
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LoRaWAN dragino Pressure sensor payload for datacake PS-LB
I ordered one of these: It’s a 5m depth water sensor. PS-LB Dragino Depth Formula There’s a formula in the payload decoder to convert the mA to water […]
Wayne
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Maremma Puppy Working Guardian Dogs for sale
We have 7 beautiful Maremma pups for sale from 16th Feb 2021. From working parents with very good temperament. Pick up from Dubbo NSW. $1400 each. Socialised with […]
food
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Cold Drip Coffee the cheap way
Here’s great cold drip coffee system using 2 Aeropresses and some ice. I just made this up becuase I have 2 Aeropresses and I don’t want to spend […]
wordpress
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WordPress Error 500 when using IP security on htaccess
When I upgraded to the latest php version (Version 7) across all my WordPress sites (which are hosted using bluehost) I encountered a 500 server error when trying […]
Health
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Phone App for Sun Vitamin D availability – dminder.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ontometrics.dminder Currently where I am in Victoria Vitamin D from the sun is only available for 2 hrs a day from 11am till 1pm! The rest of the […]
