After my tracker being down I had not noticed that the GPS-trace website format changed a bit breaking my script. Version 0.2! Therefore I have updated the script so it will work again. Updates and details are available on the Car Tracking project page.
read more...Here’s an interesting new product from Klik-aan-klik-uit. The ALED-003 is a battery powered wireless LED light. The price is between € 15-17. What is it? A small box with 3 LEDs. The little box could be smaller but it houses 3x AAA batteries. A friend of mine bought one and … read more…
My current TV setup consists of an LCD TV and a cable decoder. Every time I want to watch TV I had to grab both remotes: – Philips TV remote – Humax Decoder remote (which btw is the best and intuitive remote I have ever seen!) Challenge: get rid of the … read more…
What do you do when you’re going to sleep? Switch off TV & Cable decoder / TiVo / etc Switch off Lights Check door locks Switch off other devices Why not automate this? In the mean time you can use this automation to keep track of when you go to … read more…
Note: “TV everywhere” could mean a lot more than what I have implemented. Goal: Watching TV in my bedroom with all functionality available through my cable decoder downstairs. How The Marmitek MegaVideo 55 splits the Cable decoder output to a Coax cable. The second TV at the other end of … read more…
An updated version of the Worldpopulation script is now available. about 2 weeks ago I noticed that the old script did not work anymore. The problem turned out to be the source website (www.census.gov) which had changed the URL. I have updated the script and after a message from esschenk … read more…
Goal: getting rid of incoming paper asap, continueing with electronic documents Here’s what I learned when setting up my Paperless Home. For this project I have ordered a Fujitsu Scanner (click for more technical details!). Software: Scansnap Manager 5.0L24 (Windows XP) Goal (high WAF) Open scanner (which then auto-connects to … read more…
Last week I received my Document scanner. In an attempt to make my home paperless this is the first step. I’m currently working on a Project Page, trying to capture some of the lessons-learned. This post is more about the scanner itself and the choices I had to make. Note … read more…
At the end of last year I saw the light and realized that my Plugwise script was functional but old and programmed in a bad way. The result was >350 lines of code now becoming <100 lines of code. I just realized that I should publish what I wrote. Here … read more…
It would be great if you could help me think about the following: Something that I would love to automate: every piece of paper in my house [stextbox id=”alert” caption=”Update!”] My Fujitsu S1500 scanner has arrived. More information can be found on the Project page. [/stextbox] Goal Scan every … read more…
