Category: Automation

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

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

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

I’ve an original hotkey – ctrl+ Shift + A for cycling through File Explorer open window instances that I got from this video of Taran’s years ago, and love using it. I’ve also started to play with AutoHotKey V2 and am trying to adapt scripts from v1 to v2. I started by trying to acvtivate

I did the initial video and article on this topic but wasn’t happy with the results, so decided to look for another solution. The issue was looping through and numbering the items, if you did this in the initial list then each instance of a product/shop became unique and so you ended up with rows

There is a NZ Grocers app (https://grocer.nz/) that compares prices of products in supermarkets in NZ.I wanted to develop a list of items that would vary in price and do a price comparison across different local supermarkets to find:1/ Where the best prices were to be had for specific products2/Where some short supply products would

In a previous video , Python create Daily Planets Sky Map for Epheremis, Email & Automate –(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LgB5kyCA08) I use python to attach created pdf document and attach to email and send to myself and others. Email sent to me with CSV attachment to Hotmail account In this video I’m sent a CSV file with meter

In this project I posed the question of which sibling lives the longest. It was a question that popped into my head as two of my siblings passed away last year. I looked up on the interwongle and couldn’t find any data on the subject so decided to do my own research.I used the NZ