September 2020 – Page 3

10 Sep 2020, a day in progress

Read something interesting: No matter how loud they shouted, many Soviet citizens thought such exercises (in free speech) absurd. But they hid their real thoughts because speaking (Out) honestly (in a crowd) was dangerous. The Soviet dictatorship created a fear society that failed the “town square test”—can everyone express themselves freely, publicly, without fear of punishment? Can we speak freely without checking for a BLM protestor confronting us wherever we are? Can we have a sign like Blue Lives Matter or All Lives Matter in our yards without fearing damage to our homes? Three-warning-signs-of-ideological-totalitarianism

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

Virus cases in Gwinnett County dropping quickly!

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

07:00 Breakfast with the wife
08:00 Walked down the block and back.
09:00 Updated my blog and checked the news.
10:00 Adjusted the NodeMCU programming.
11:00 Nap
12:00 Lunch and looked for ornaments for the NodeMCU’s
13:00 Nap and checked the news.
14:00 Swapped out the Dehumidifier at Lowes. I am not sure it was bad.
15:00 Back from Lowes, new unit is quieter. Still though I just don’t know.
16:00 The dehumidifier is just not as quiet as I had hoped, but I am keeping it.
17:00 Ok, start something new.

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.

Making my 2nd high amperage relay. The NodeMCu closes a 5v relay and it connects the line voltage to the coil of the 2nd relay. The AC relay was chosen to reduce the low voltage power needed to switch the large current motor on / off.

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.

Tomorrow: Friday

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

Project Engineering:

Purchases:

Repairs:

Religion: We were called to read Luke and comment on the author.

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

9 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 Breakfast with the wife
08:00 Catching up on the news
09:00 Blogging and checking the Node MCU
10:00 Planning….
12:00 Nap
14:00 Homework for church tonight.
17:00 Dinner
18:00 Mow the back yard
19:30 Church
21:00 Bed

NodeMCU ESP8266 Wi-Fi SoC

I need a nice looking ornament to put this thermostat in? It is not very big, although it does have two antenna that need to stick out.

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.

Read something today: No matter how loud they shouted, many Soviet citizens thought such exercises absurd. But they hid their real thoughts because speaking honestly was dangerous. The Soviet dictatorship created a fear society that failed the “town square test”—can everyone express themselves freely, publicly, without fear of punishment? Can we speak freely without checking for a BLM protestor confronting us wherever we are? three-warning-signs-of-ideological-totalitarianism

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 read Luke and comment on the author.

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

8 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.

07:00 Charging my phone and Wife is making breakfast.
08:00 Walk around the block.
09:00 Catching up on the news.
10:00 Blogging
12:00 Nap, attic fan turns on at 103 degrees.
14:00 Checking the A/C and blogging.
15:00 Checking on adding a relay to A/C for High Cool.
16:00 Added a “High Cool” relay to the air conditioner.
17:00 Dinner, Salmon
18:00 Mowed the lawn, it is going to rain tomorrow.
19:00 Blogging and checking on the NodeMCU’s.
21:00 Bed Time

NodeMCU ESP8266 Wi-Fi SoC

This NodeMCU measures two temperatures and the current drawn by the thermostat. There are five relays that control the Fan, Reversing valve, Cool command, High Cool command. If any sensor faults Home Assistant software releases control to the thermostat on the wall by cutting off all the relays. If power fails, it releases control to the thermostat.

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.

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 read Luke and comment on the author.

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

7 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 Charging my phone and Wife is making breakfast.
08:00 Eating breakfast with the wife.
09:00 Early Nap
10:00 Browsing the web.
11:00 putting out taxes in an envelope.
12:00 Nap 2
14:00 Wasting Time today.
16:00 Dinner
17:00 Listening to Melvin on YT.
18:00 Watching Robin Williams on the Tonight Show.
21:00 Headed to bed, what a waisted day.

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.

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: 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

6 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 Charging my phone and Wife is making breakfast.
08:00 Eating breakfast and getting ready for church.
09:00 Preparing for church.
10:00 Service started.
11:00 Ice cream sandwich for lunch
12:00 Nap
14:00 Scoping out a relay for the attic fan.
15:00 Reading the news.
16:00 Dinner
17:00 Post Office run.
18:00 Watched Star Trek Wrath of Kahn.
21:00 Bed Time

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: Sunday

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

5 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.

07:00 Making plans with the sweetie
08:00 Take a walk around the block
09:00 Attic trip, pull the Ethernet cable through the soffet.
09:30 Driveway camera back online, not sure what failed yet.
- Ethernet cable to soffit, Ethernet jack, Patch cable?
10:00 Join the music ministry
11:00 Reprogram the garage NodeMCU and enable a reboot and DHT power pin.
12:00 Nap
14:00 Check cameras and label wires.
15:00 Tidy up the wires on the cameras.
16:00 Get the two old cameras back online until i can replace them.
17:00 watched a made for TV movie about acid rain.
21:00 bed

NodeMCU ESP8266 Wi-Fi SoC

Tomorrow: Sunday

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

Project Engineering:

Purchases:

Repairs: Repaired driveway camera and DHT-22 problems with NodeMCU.

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

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

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