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
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 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