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Python dev / DevOps wannabe / Homelabber / self-host everything / Astrophotography / Gardening / Permaculture / BOINC / Degrowth / Fan of Late Night Linux Family podcasts

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stfn, to random
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HI there, I haven't been here for the last few days, but I'm back.

So, how are things?

stfn,
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@Walrus and how is it there?

stfn,
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@everts I am very happy to hear that! And don't lose hope, it took my weeks to finally reach another node

stfn, to random
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A lot happened in the last few days. A news aggregator site wrote about my newest blog post, and gave my blog a ton of traffic, that was nice.

What was even nicer was that I spent the weekend at a very chill stag party

stfn,
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@Toive8547 I wish I was on hackaday :D And (I hope) my current setup should survive Hackaday-level traffic without any additional costs. At least I hope so

stfn,
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lol, and I today was listed in some CircuitPython newsletter, even though I do not use CP

stfn,
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is this internet fame?

stfn, to cymru
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Many many years ago, when I was a young stfn, I could speak some Welsh. And today I found a proof of it.

#welsh

szescstopni, to random
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A short thread about Barbie, drills, and #LoRaWAN. This is our basic drill with an attachment to make standard size holes in plastic. Today we decided to put the second LoRaWAN gateway up – signals from some sensors didn't get through when the gataway and the antenna lied on the dogs' favorite couch in our tiny house.

stfn,
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@szescstopni that is beautiful engineering. Work with what you have

stfn, to RaspberryPi
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New blog post!

This one took weeks to write. It's about me finding a way to significantly reduce the power consumption of a Raspberry Pi Pico W working as a weather station, collecting environmental data.

I am also writing about powering the Pico using solar panels, and this time it's a success, my weather station can now run indefinitely, powered by the sun!

https://stfn.pl/blog/34-pico-power-consumption-solar-panels/

stfn,
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@yvan thank you! and good luck with your project, I'd love to hear about it :)

stfn,
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@steelman

There is also machine.lightsleep(), but from my testing, it did now make any difference from time.sleep(). And deepsleep is not yet implemented in MicroPython. Maybe it's different in C, but I don't know C (yet).

And yes, it can sleep longer if you want less granular data.

I read the article that you posted, I even linked it at the end of my post.

Nonetheless, thank you for the feedback, I really appreciate it!

stfn,
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@gim Yes, it does do overdischarge and overcharge protections, and it has a small radiator at the bottom to dissipate heat. As for 2), I don't know, I haven't reached that point yet

stfn,
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@steelman So you are saying that when the interval is too small, the sensor itself will heat and skew the results?

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@quantensalat wow, I did not know such a thing existed, and it looks like a perfect, simple solution! Thanks for sharing!

stfn,
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@jo did you use C or microPython for your project? I'm curious how you changed the clock speeds. And the charging circuitry is kind of complicated, if I understand correctly you implemented your own solution instead of using an off the shelf controller?

Right now I'm also working on a different project, and I am also using Tupperware for the case, and had problems with placement of the sensors. I'll publish a blog post on it soon. Thanks for sharing!:D

stfn,
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@quantensalat "Also, we had to pull down the cutoff pin gently to ground for it to reliably wake up again."

What do you mean by this? Sorry, I'm not that will versed in designing circuits

stfn,
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@quantensalat so it is to ensure that ground will always be 0V and not introduce some unwanted currents?

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@quantensalat right, now I get it!

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@karlbunyan Thank you, you're the second person in the replies using that board, I need to take a closer look at it

stfn,
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@dj3ei @yvan @steelman @gim @jo @quantensalat @karlbunyan thank you for the contribution, you are making very good points. One place that would for sure make the code more complicated is that I would need to attach timestamps at the Pico level. Right now I just send data from the Pico, and InfluxDB handles time-stamping of incoming messages as they arrive.

pograneeu, to microsoft Polish
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Fatalne wieści, fatalne 😢

https://pograne.eu/microsoft-zamyka-studia-odpowiedzialne-za-redfall-i-hi-fi-rush/

stfn,
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@pograneeu Co do gier, to podobno Kerbal Space Program 2 też zostaje ubity?

stfn,
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@pograneeu

stfn, to random
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My mobile internet setup is running strong 💪

stfn,
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@markwalker there's the cell, cabling, and an overdischarge protection chip

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