Author: Max Drake

My daughter has a plant growing business and has lots of plants. She feeds and waters them generally daily but needs to be monitoring their moisture content. The plants are on a line feed and so drippers in each plant feed water and fertiliser at regular times. Depending on where the plants are along the

My daughters business regarding plants got me into exploring home automation. I bought a few devices and started testing them at home. I just went to the local shops and bought a few devices. Initially I was quite impressed with how easy they were to setup (proviso here on wifi network and bands , 2.4GHz

I have been using Freenom.com for free domains for quite a few years, recently it has shut down and put all my active domains into a ‘pending’ state that does not allow the domains to work. Because of that my 6 or 7 sites have all become inaccessible. I also have a Home Assistant App

I sent data from Raspberry Pi Pico W over wifi to local PC. 1. Start listener program on PC and then program on Pico local PC script must be running first, as its listening for the data to come in on all IP addresses but on a specific port Fire up the pico code to

I wanted to test out some sensors to see if I can do some automation with growing plants. I found this tutorial IoT Soil Moisture Monitor with Raspberry Pi Pico W & Blynk One of the automation’s was receiving data on soil moisture, and I wanted to be able to receive this information via wifi

I received an email today from Amazon Honeycode saying they will be shuting down the service in Feb 2024. I initially was very keen on trying out the product and did 10 YouTube videos about it that have garnered over 6000 views to date. I started using it in July 2020 and was excited in

I saw this article Sites scramble to block ChatGPT web crawler after instructions emerge and have some feelings about this emerging technology. For ChatGPT to learn and improve it needs data to be fed into it. It is obtaining information and data from open-source locations, and also scraping websites to get data to train the

Originally a Glide App for personal Expenses I had previously created a Glide, no code Personal Expense App and found it extremely useful. The Glide Apps are Web Apps and they originally wrote data to a Google Sheet in your account. See Glide Apps : https://www.glideapps.com/It is a great app but I found it a

Following on from earlier video ‘Activate Python Scripts from AutoHotKey V2 Hotkeys’ (https://youtu.be/QYxTI81FtWI ) I wanted to add a hotkey information help message box, so I can easily find out the hotkeys for triggering specific scripts. I find this useful when I have a lot of hotkeys and hotstrings and so I do not have

I want to be able to activate some python scripts using keyboard hotkeys. That is, you type a hotkey , eg Alt + H and it runs the python script that you want. You can do this with a Python script, running in the background and listening for the correct hotkey and then it will