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4 Sep 2020, a day in progress

Status: Sheltering in place, we have plenty of food and supplies..

Plans: Let the NodeMCU’s and the dehumidifier run until September.

07:00 Making plans with the sweetie
08:00 Checking the main “Flooded” batteries water level. (old ones low, new ok)
09:00 adding water to old flooded batteries.
10:00 Eating Brunch, pro biotic and Klondike bar.
11:00 blogging.
12:00 Nap
13:00 Working on the cameras
16:00 Dinner
17:00 Blogging

NodeMCU ESP8266 Wi-Fi SoC

Feelings: As Christians we are compelled to look after the Widows and the poor. Just how we do that in this climate when there is so much energy fighting the democracy I don’t know. I sent this month’s $250 to a Baton Rouge church to help with the hurricane Laura victims.

Tomorrow: Saturday

Retirement: Need to build a budget, are spending is too close to our income.

Project Engineering:

Purchases:

Repairs:

Religion: We were called to be God’s people and do his will.

Family News: Mom’s in a rehab center, hopefully she’ll get home soon.

Arts:

Health: 220Lbs, too heavy.
Swollen feet have collapsed, no more potato chips!

Travel: Florida travel looks within reach.

Taxes: Mail Them!

Pi News: I’ve been working with “Home Assistant” software, the Pi’s themselves are in good shape.

Media: No Instagram posts today and we’re off Facebook.

Injuries: No injuries.

Accomplishments: None.

From the book “Triggers” by Marshall Goldsmith
Did I DMBT make my wife feel loved? Yes
Did I DMBT help my wife today? Yes
Did I DMBT be happy? Yes
*Did My Best To

3 Sep 2020,a day in progress

Status: Sheltering in place, we have plenty of food and supplies..

Plans: Let the NodeMCU’s and the dehumidifier run until September.

01:00 Monday Blogging
02:00 Making adjustments to the software running the air conditioner.
06:00 Turned on the coffee, going back to Sunday and update that page.
07:00 Making plans with the sweetie
08:00 Walked around the block.
09:00 Talked with family and blogging.
10:00 Documenting NodeMCU programming and eating lunch.
11:00 Nap
12:00 Troubleshooting Driveway camera
14:00 Chatt’n with the wife.
17:00 Scrabble.
21:00 Bed

NodeMCU ESP8266 Wi-Fi SoC

Tomorrow: Friday

Retirement: Need to build a budget, are spending is too close to our income.

Project Engineering:

Purchases: 3.3V regulators to allow remote reset of DHT-22

Repairs:

Religion: We were called to be God’s people and do his will.

Family News: Mom’s in a rehab center, hopefully she’ll get home soon.

Arts:

Health: 220Lbs, too heavy.
Swollen feet have collapsed, no more potato chips!

Travel: Florida travel looks within reach.

Taxes: Mail Them!

Pi News: I’ve been working with “Home Assistant” software, the Pi’s themselves are in good shape.

Media: No Instagram posts today and we’re off Facebook.

Injuries: No injuries.

Accomplishments: None.

From the book “Triggers” by Marshall Goldsmith
Did I DMBT make my wife feel loved? Yes
Did I DMBT help my wife today? Yes
Did I DMBT be happy? Yes
*Did My Best To

2 Sep 2020, a day in progress

Status: Sheltering in place, we have plenty of food and supplies..

Plans: Let the NodeMCU’s and the dehumidifier run until September.

01:00 Monday Blogging
02:00 Making adjustments to the software running the air conditioner.
06:00 Turned on the coffee, going back to Sunday and update that page.
07:00 Making plans with the sweetie
08:00 Run generators #4 and #5, i now know that Gen #1 and #2 are damaged.
- I powered two PFC power supplies and their large peak currents broke something.
09:00 Checked the oil and stowed them.
09:30 Reading the news while I cool off from the humidity, sheesh it is high today.
10:00 Lunch, tuna salad sandwich.
11:00 Had to take a LONG nap, i was Tuckerd
15:00 Air conditioner jumped to high cool, thermistor is 110 attic and 94 outside.
16:00 News check…
17:00 Dinner
18:00 Getting ready for church, air conditioner still on high cool (Thermostat)
21:00 Blogging and getting ready for bed.

NodeMCU ESP8266 Wi-Fi SoC

Earlier this month I moved the two DHT-22 thermometers to the end of the breadboard to get it away from the small amount of heat the NodeMCU releases. Today I ended up extending the wires moving the thermometer off of the breadboard completely because the heat of the NodeMCU raises the temperature reported by the thermometer more than a degree especially if the air is still.

These two sensors are within inches of each other, they have no reason to have 1 degree difference between them. If you put a fan on them, they will both agree.

Tomorrow: Thursday

Retirement: Need to build a budget, are spending is too close to our income.

Project Engineering:

Purchases:

Repairs:

Religion: We were called to be God’s people and do his will.

Family News: Mom’s in a rehab center, hopefully she’ll get home soon.

Arts:

Health: 220Lbs, too heavy.
Swollen feet have collapsed, no more potato chips!

Travel: Florida travel looks within reach.

Taxes: Mail Them!

Pi News: I’ve been working with “Home Assistant” software, the Pi’s themselves are in good shape.

Media: No Instagram posts today and we’re off Facebook.

Injuries: No injuries.

Accomplishments: None.

From the book “Triggers” by Marshall Goldsmith
Did I DMBT make my wife feel loved? Yes
Did I DMBT help my wife today? Yes
Did I DMBT be happy? Yes
*Did My Best To

1 Sept 2020, a day in progress

Status: Sheltering in place, we have plenty of food and supplies..

Plans: Let the NodeMCU’s and the dehumidifier run until September.

01:00 Monday Blogging
02:00 Making adjustments to the software running the air conditioner.
06:00 Turned on the coffee, going back to Sunday and update that page.
08:00 Walk around the block.
09:00 Blogging.
09:30 Pulled thermostat wire from attic wires.
10:00 Lunch and called mom.
10:30 Looking for 24V exhaust fans.
11:00 Attic fan is ok, thermostat was misadjusted (Still want an efficient DC fan)
12:00 Nap, Checking my space
14:00 Monitor air conditioning, cameras and attic fan.
17:00 Dinner was left overs.
21:00 Bedtime

NodeMCU ESP8266 Wi-Fi SoC

Tomorrow: Wednesday

Retirement: Need to build a budget, are spending is too close to our income.

Project Engineering:

Purchases:

Repairs:

Religion: We were called to be God’s people and do his will.

Family News: Mom’s in a rehab center, hopefully she’ll get home soon.

Arts:

Health: 220Lbs, too heavy.
Swollen feet have collapsed, no more potato chips!

Travel: Florida travel looks within reach.

Taxes: Mail Them!

Pi News: I’ve been working with “Home Assistant” software, the Pi’s themselves are in good shape.

Media: No Instagram posts today and we’re off Facebook.

Injuries: No injuries.

Accomplishments: None.

From the book “Triggers” by Marshall Goldsmith
Did I DMBT make my wife feel loved? Yes
Did I DMBT help my wife today? Yes
Did I DMBT be happy? Yes
*Did My Best To

31 August 2020, a day in progress

Status: Sheltering in place, we have plenty of food and supplies..

Plans: Let the NodeMCU’s and the dehumidifier run until September.

01:00 Monday Blogging
04:00 Making adjustments to the software running the air conditioner.
05:00 Moved the temp sensor closer to the evaporator, it was responding to the pipe.
06:00 Turned on the coffee, going back to Sunday and update that page.
07:00 Chatting with the wife enjoying our coffee.
08:00 Nap time,
09:35 Up, calling mom, checking the news.
10:00 Cleaning up the livingroom.
11:00 Nap
12:30 Blogging and check’n the news.
13:00 camera went offline, looks like it is getting overheated.
14:00 revisiting the sermon from Sunday.
15:00 helping with dinner
16:00 Looking for an attic fan
17:00 Dinner
18:00 Looking at solar attic fans
21:00 Headed for bed.

NodeMCU ESP8266 Wi-Fi SoC

Looks like another perfect day for the air conditioner, no ice.

Tomorrow: Tuesday

Retirement: Need to build a budget, are spending is too close to our income.

Project Engineering:

Purchases:

Repairs:

Religion: We were called to be God’s people and do his will.

Family News: Mom’s in a rehab center, hopefully she’ll get home soon.

Arts:

Health: 220Lbs, too heavy.
Swollen feet have collapsed, no more potato chips!

Travel: Florida travel looks within reach.

Taxes: I need to look into increasing my tax payments to State of Georgia.

Pi News: I’ve been working with “Home Assistant” software, the Pi’s themselves are in good shape.

Media: No Instagram posts today and we’re off Facebook.

Injuries: No injuries.

Accomplishments: None.

From the book “Triggers” by Marshall Goldsmith
Did I DMBT make my wife feel loved? Yes
Did I DMBT help my wife today? Yes
Did I DMBT be happy? Yes
*Did My Best To

30 August 2020, a day in progress

Status: Sheltering in place, we have plenty of food and supplies..

Plans: Let the NodeMCU’s and the dehumidifier run until September.

01:00 Sunday
Blogging
07:00 Up, sipp’n coffee and eating breakfast.
08:00 Writing prayers for service. (Forgot people….)
09:00 Getting ready for church
10:00 Service
11:00 Lunch and a nap
13:00 Disabled deice routine in the air conditioner programming.
14:00 Vacuumed the floors.
16:00 Ran generators and Mowed the lawn
17:00 Recovered Generators and ate Dinner
18:00 Storms, shut off external power. (Run on battery)
20:00 returned everything to Grid power and wen to bed.

NodeMCU ESP8266 Wi-Fi SoC

An oddity that I’ve not solved is that the air conditioning ran for seven hours today with no signs of icing! I disabled the forced switch to the thermostat at 13:30 that is normally used during the heat of the day to gain access to high cool. Even without high cool we were comfortable using low cool during the heat of the day! We had planned on replacing the air conditioner in October because the evaporator was oil logged. Reversing the compressor to de-ice the evaporator may have pushed the oil out of the capillary tubes back towards the compressor in the much smaller high pressure tubes.

Another think I noticed was that the Dehumidifier didn’t run either. Meaning that the air conditioner was sufficiently removing the moisture.

Feelings: As Christians we are compelled to look after the Widows and the poor. Just how we do that in this climate when there is so much energy fighting the democracy I don’t know. We’ve resorted to giving money to the Atlanta Community Food Bank https://acfb.org/ until I can come up with something better.

Tomorrow: Monday

Retirement: Need to build a budget, are spending is too close to our income.

Project Engineering:

Purchases: Another Dremel tool for mom.

Repairs:

Religion: We were called to be God’s people and do his will.

Family News: Mom’s in a rehab center, hopefully she’ll get home soon.

Arts: Watched 2nd half “Contagion”

Health: 220Lbs, too heavy.
Swollen feet have collapsed, no more potato chips!

Travel: Florida travel looks within reach.

Taxes: Mail Them

Pi News: I’ve been working with “Home Assistant” software, the Pi’s themselves are in good shape.

Media: No Instagram posts today and we’re off Facebook.

Injuries: No injuries.

Accomplishments: None.

From the book “Triggers” by Marshall Goldsmith
Did I DMBT make my wife feel loved? Yes
Did I DMBT help my wife today? Yes
Did I DMBT be happy? Yes
*Did My Best To

29 August 2020, a day in progress

Status: Sheltering in place, we have plenty of food and supplies..

Plans: Let the NodeMCU’s and the dehumidifier run until September.

NodeMCU ESP8266 Wi-Fi SoC

NodeMCU Status: Our air conditioner is limping with a oil logged evaporator until we replace the unit in October. The thermostat is also limping along because of leaking batteries. I’m using these NodeMCU’s to measure the temperature and humidity throughout the house and turn on / off the power to the thermostat. I’ve been tweaking the software over the last week to improve our comfort. I added a restart control this morning so that I could restart them if they go astray.

Feelings: As Christians we are compelled to look after the Widows and the poor. Just how we do that in this climate when there is so much energy fighting the democracy I don’t know. We’ve resorted to giving money to the Atlanta Community Food Bank https://acfb.org/ until I can come up with something better.

Tomorrow: Sunday

Retirement: Need to build a budget, are spending is too close to our income.

Project Engineering:

Purchases: Dresses for mom.

Repairs:

Religion: We were called to be God’s people and do his will.

Family News: Mom’s in a rehab center, hopefully she’ll get home soon.

Arts:

Health: 220Lbs, too heavy.
Swollen feet have collapsed, no more potato chips!

Travel: Florida travel looks within reach.

Taxes: Mail Them!

Pi News: I’ve been working with “Home Assistant” software, the Pi’s themselves are in good shape.

Media: No Instagram posts today and we’re off Facebook.

Injuries: No injuries.

Accomplishments: None.

From the book “Triggers” by Marshall Goldsmith
Did I DMBT make my wife feel loved? Yes
Did I DMBT help my wife today? Yes
Did I DMBT be happy? Yes
*Did My Best To

28 August 2020, a day in progress

Status: Sheltering in place, we have plenty of food and supplies..

Plans: Let the NodeMCU’s and the dehumidifier run until September.

01:00 Blogging FRIDAY!
07:00 Up, Sipp’n coffee and Blogging.
08:00 Blogging
11:00 Edged the sidewalks.
12:00 Nap time.
14:00 Getting organized.
15:00 Another Nap, i didn’t sleep very well.
16:00 Dinner is beans and ham
17:00 It is cloudy and the switchover between low/high cool needs adjustment
18:00 Margarita time
19:00 Watching Tesla
21:00 Bedtime

NodeMCU ESP8266 Wi-Fi SoC

At 9PM each day the processors shift their sensors to the bedroom and ignore the rest of the house for the most part. That way we have maximum comfort in the room we are occupying. I ended up removing the vent cover from the bedroom to improve the airflow and the dynamic changes when the air handler is running. Leaving the bedroom door open offsets the additional cold air present during the heat of the day. Also we are running the fan as though we had a 3T compressor to keep it from icing up. The airflow is quite a bit more than normal when on high cool. (Which reduces the dehumidification and increases the air temperature about 4 degrees.) That’s why we are running a dehumidifier even during a hot day.

About our current racial climate

Narrative: I’ve spent hundreds of hours reading the news about the protesting encouraged by the BLM Corporation International. They are very skilled at mixing “Peaceful Protests” and violence into “Mostly Peaceful Protests”. They are also very good at squashing the media into publishing just their narrative by having people on the ground telling the journalists what they can video and publish under the threat of violence. No one is talking about people are innocent until they are proven guilty by their peers in a court of law, rather they may have judged and promoted immediate convictions based on video they’ve edited/published. They are remarkable in their taunting, then they file complaints against the police and government about 1st Amendment rights being quelled by police brutality, which is the whole reason they are protesting. (Maybe, they still could want a Marxist government that redistributes the money to bring the poor out of poverty and give control of the country to the working class. (DPRUSA?) They have to get the police out of the way before pushing the laws of this country aside with these protests.) The-revolutionary-philosophy-of-marxism No one is talking seriously about the 25 Trillion dollars of Debt we’ve (Politicians) run up as we keep finding ways to give away money. We also seem to be forgetting that a couple of these people (at the root of all this protesting) are convicted felons who’s aggression toward the police contributed to the painful loss of their lives in front of a video camera. I did read an article that links a pandemic to protests, apparently the oppressed are motivated during a pandemic to strike out at their government’s misgivings. Lastly I found a good read that doesn’t sound like a stump speech about racism. https://medium.com…stop-calling-it-white-privilege the writer Michelle Elizabeth covers most of the bases about were we are as a racially divided country. What I liked about her writing was that she pointed out the thing I had missed in all the newspapers. There may well be racism in our justice system that still has not been tended to. However, IMHO Marxism is not where I want to go to replace it.

Cancelled my subscriptions to major Newspapers, they all have the same hype. I have also abandoned Facebook, Twitter too. I did subscribe to medium.com where authors seem to give their in-depth views on things, which is more palatable to me in this climate.

Feelings: As Christians we are compelled to look after the Widows and the poor. Just how we do that in this climate when there is so much energy fighting the democracy I don’t know. We’ve resorted to giving money to the Atlanta Community Food Bank https://acfb.org/ until I can come up with something better.

Tomorrow: Saturday

Retirement: Need to build a budget, are spending is too close to our income.

Project Engineering:

Purchases: Dresses for mom.

Repairs:

Religion: We were called to be God’s people and do his will.

Family News: Mom’s in a rehab center, hopefully she’ll get home soon.

Arts:

Health: 220Lbs, too heavy.
Swollen feet have collapsed, no more potato chips!

Travel: Florida travel looks within reach.

Taxes: Georgia owes me almost 4K

Pi News: I’ve been working with “Home Assistant” software, the Pi’s themselves are in good shape.

Media: No Instagram posts today and we’re off Facebook.

Injuries: No injuries.

Accomplishments: None.

From the book “Triggers” by Marshall Goldsmith
Did I DMBT make my wife feel loved? Yes
Did I DMBT help my wife today? Yes
Did I DMBT be happy? Yes
*Did My Best To

27 August 2020, a day in progress

Status: Sheltering in place, we have plenty of food and supplies..

Plans: Let the NodeMCU’s and the dehumidifier run until September.

01:00 Thursday
01:00 Working on Home Assistant, it stopped logging.
07:00 Up, getting dressed for our walk.
08:00 Breakfast and Home Assistant monitoring.
09:00 Working on Home Assistant
10:00 Clearing sidewalk of brush
12:00 Blogging
13:00 Nap
15:00 Mow the back yard
17:00 Din Din
18:00 reaching out to old friends.
20:00 Blogging, I am seriously running out of gas though.

NodeMCU ESP8266 Wi-Fi SoC

I’ve added a new feature to my distributed NodeMCU thermostat to deice the evaporator using the heat pump. The reversing valve is normally in the heat position. I have to energize a relay (And the valve) to cool the house. The system will let me run the compressor in heat mode without the fan. (Although I am scared to use it that way.) I have changed the software so that when the house is able to be cooled using the NodeMCU in low cool I run the evaporator through one defrost cycle. For now that cycle is low fan for 3 minutes, Heat pump+Fan until the evaporator temp reaches 80 degrees (About 3 minutes), Fan only for three minutes. The metal ducts keep the air temperature around 70 degrees for that short heating cycle.

About our current racial climate

Narrative: I’ve spent hundreds of hours reading the news about the protesting encouraged by the BLM Corporation International. They are very skilled at mixing “Peaceful Protests” and violence into “Mostly Peaceful Protests”. They are also very good at squashing the media into publishing just their narrative by having people on the ground telling the journalists what they can video and publish under the threat of violence. No one is talking about people are innocent until they are proven guilty by their peers in a court of law, rather they may have judged and promoted immediate convictions based on video they’ve edited/published. They are remarkable in their taunting, then they file complaints against the police and government about 1st Amendment rights being quelled by police brutality, which is the whole reason they are protesting. (Maybe, they still could want a Marxist government that redistributes the money to bring the poor out of poverty and give control of the country to the working class. (DPRUSA?) They have to get the police out of the way before pushing the laws of this country aside with these protests.) The-revolutionary-philosophy-of-marxism No one is talking seriously about the 25 Trillion dollars of Debt we’ve (Politicians) run up as we keep finding ways to give away money. We also seem to be forgetting that a couple of these people (at the root of all this protesting) are convicted felons who’s aggression contributed to the painful loss of their lives in front of a video camera. I did read an article that links a pandemic to protests, apparently the oppressed are motivated during a pandemic to strike out at their government’s misgivings.

Cancelled subscriptions to Newspapers.

I have also abandoned Facebook, Twitter too.

Feelings: As Christians we are compelled to look after the Widows and the poor. Just how we do that in this climate when there is so much energy fighting the democracy I don’t know. We’ve resorted to giving money to the Atlanta Community Food Bank https://acfb.org/ until I can come up with something better.

Tomorrow: Friday

Retirement: Need to build a budget, are spending is too close to our income.

Project Engineering:

Purchases: Monocular so she can see the mailbox.

Repairs:

Religion: We were called to be God’s people and do his will.

Family News: Mom’s in a rehab center, hopefully she’ll get home soon.

Arts:

Health: 220Lbs, too heavy.
Swollen feet have collapsed, no more potato chips!

Travel: Florida travel looks within reach.

Taxes: Georgia owes me a several thousand.

Pi News: I’ve been working with “Home Assistant” software, the Pi’s themselves are in good shape.

Media: No Instagram posts today and we’re off Facebook.

Injuries: No injuries.

Accomplishments: None.

From the book “Triggers” by Marshall Goldsmith
Did I DMBT make my wife feel loved? Yes
Did I DMBT help my wife today? Yes
Did I DMBT be happy? Yes
*Did My Best To

26 August 2020, a day in progress

Status: Sheltering in place, we have plenty of food and supplies..

Plans: Let the NodeMCU’s and the dehumidifier run until September.

01:00 Blogging
07:00 Up, sipp’n coffee and eating breakfast.
08:00 Still working on my NodeMCU for the dehumidifier.
12:00 Nap
13:00 Locked down new cameras and NVR with passwords.
14:00 Fighting with Home Assistant software, orphaned entities….
17:00 Dinner
19:00 Church
21:00 Bed

Security Cameras: Still learning the Reolink DVR software and camera software for that matter. I could not find where the DVR had the passwords for the cameras for several days. I finally found a post that mentioned the password fields inside the DVR menu. (Never Saw it) Finally I saw a graphic that showed the scroll bar at the bottom of the camera listing on the DVR, viola there’s the password fields! The DVR is set to record all cameras as a default. It has notification settings to send an E-Mail if a camera goes offline or has other notifications like motion enabled. I have NOT been able to see the DVR video from my computer browsers IE, Chrome or Edge. To see the DVR video I have to use an android app. (I checked MS Store no dice.)

NodeMCU ESP8266 Wi-Fi SoC

Rebuilt HA

About our current racial climate

Narrative: I’ve spent hundreds of hours reading the news about the protesting encouraged by the BLM Corporation International. They are very skilled at mixing “Peaceful Protests” and violence into “Mostly Peaceful Protests”. They are also very good at squashing the media into publishing just their narrative by having people on the ground telling the journalists what they can video and publish under the threat of violence. No one is talking about people are innocent until they are proven guilty by their peers in a court of law, rather they may have judged and promoted immediate convictions based on video they’ve edited/published. They are remarkable in their taunting, then they file complaints against the police and government about 1st Amendment rights being quelled by police brutality, which is the whole reason they are protesting. (Maybe, they still could want a Marxist government that redistributes the money to bring the poor out of poverty and give control of the country to the working class. (DPRUSA?) They have to get the police out of the way before pushing the laws of this country aside with these protests.) The-revolutionary-philosophy-of-marxism No one is talking seriously about the 25 Trillion dollars of Debt we’ve (Politicians) run up as we keep finding ways to give away money. We also seem to be forgetting that a couple of these people (at the root of all this protesting) are convicted felons who’s aggression contributed to the painful loss of their lives in front of a video camera. I did read an article that links a pandemic to protests, apparently the oppressed are motivated during a pandemic to strike out at their government’s misgivings.

Cancelled subscriptions to Newspapers.

I have also abandoned Facebook, Twitter too.

Feelings: As Christians we are compelled to look after the Widows and the poor. Just how we do that in this climate when there is so much energy fighting the democracy I don’t know. We’ve resorted to giving money to the Atlanta Community Food Bank https://acfb.org/ until I can come up with something better.

Tomorrow: Monday

Retirement: Need to build a budget, are spending is too close to our income.

Project Engineering:

Purchases: Another Dremel tool for mom.

Repairs:

Religion: We were called to be God’s people and do his will.

Family News: Mom’s in a rehab center, hopefully she’ll get home soon.

Arts: Watched 2nd half “Contagion”

Health: 220Lbs, too heavy.
Swollen feet have collapsed, no more potato chips!

Travel: Florida travel looks within reach.

Taxes: I need to look into increasing my tax payments to State of Georgia.

Pi News: I’ve been working with “Home Assistant” software, the Pi’s themselves are in good shape.

Media: No Instagram posts today and we’re off Facebook.

Injuries: No injuries.

Accomplishments: None.

From the book “Triggers” by Marshall Goldsmith
Did I DMBT make my wife feel loved? Yes
Did I DMBT help my wife today? Yes
Did I DMBT be happy? Yes
*Did My Best To