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Welcome

This is the web site and the Blog are devoted to my Home Automation projects.  This covers technologies such as: Ubuntu Linux, Elastix PBX, 1-wire and my own bits of software.

I have recently moved to a new location on the island of Westray in Orkney (off the end of Scotland by John O’Groats).

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Info: Arduino IDE or Atmel AVR Studio

Recently I was working on a large Arduino project and was getting pretty annoyed with the compile times.  Just for a minor change, results in the Arduino IDE re-compiling absolutely everything connected with the project.

This is a major issue to development times.  Having to compile everything just for the most minor change to the source code is a serious hindrance.

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Project: LEDChat

While I was fiddling with sorting the issue of the RTC on my Heat Pump Monitor, I got distracted with getting two Arduino boards talking to each other via an LED.  There are plenty of examples of this on the Internet, including some videos on YouTube, but no one so has published any code to really support this (or that I was able to locate).  So I decided it was time to reproduce this and hopefully release some code.

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Project: Heat Pump Monitor / Pitot Tube II

Well.  It has been just over a month since my last post regarding this project and there has been some progress which I’m please to say.

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Project: Heat Pump Monitor / Pitot Tube

Just to let you know that things are moving on with the Heat Pump monitor and its Pitot Tube.

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Fix: piix4_smbus error in Virtual Machines

If you get the following error in a Ubuntu/Debian virtual machine in Oracle’s Virtual Box:

piix4_smbus 0000.00.07.0: SMBus base address uninitialized – upgrade bios or use force_addr=0xaddr

then you need to apply the following fix….

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