New Nixie Clocks, Sven and Dyadnix

Imperial War Museum 2012

Weather Station & 1-Wire Temperature Sensors

Hello, I'm pleased to anounce that the weather station is back, after a 6 month refurb, so far it seems to be working fine. I will post an article soon on the work that took place. I have also published an article on making the 1-wire temperature sensors I use to monitor the temperature around the house. I have a number of other articles and pictures to publish, and also I'm starting the rebuild of the lightning radar.

Site updated to Joomla 3.0

After many hours, I have managed to move my site over to Joomla 3.0, fixing a number of the modules it uses on the way that did not work on 3.0, so well pleased. I now have to finish off a number of new articles.. humm.

House Power and Sensor Events

I have added a new power monitor to the house which enables me to create graphs of the power used. I have also been able to extract the data from the many sensors around the house and graph them. These can bee seen on this page

Temperatures/Telephone and Liverpool Pictures

Caller ID - at last!

Well, after 10+ years I have found a USB modem that works 100% with BTs Caller ID. Other units I have stop 'seeing' the caller id after a while, DSR dropping problem, there was no fix, it was just a feature and the manufactures were not interested in fixing it, or they had gone out of business.

Well it seems there is a solution the US Robotics USR5637: USR805637-138400

the only proviso, is that the firmware needed updating to version 1.2.23. I has been working for weeks now, without any resetting, rebooting of the machine, very impressed, well it should work, shouldn't it, unlike the dozen or so other modems I have brought over the years!

The software I use to monitor is CallerClerk, This is not the full story. I have written various scripts and integrated various software so that when a call comes in on the home land line, a SMS text message is sent via a old mobile to my mobile, can be very useful. In the near future I should have stats that show how many calls come in per day/week/month, not that many :-)