The gaming Dream Machine So I want to build a gaming PC or more likely get someone to build one for me. These are the specs that I've come up with so far: Do
Backup a Nightscout site and restore it locally Assumptions: 1. You have a Nightscout site hosted at Heroku 2. You have used the Heroku dashboard and the config vars to note your mlab url, username and password 3. You have a linux machine or a mac pre-installed with docker and docker-compose Getting
ADEA NSW Looping presentation Last week Nina was invited to speak at the Australian Diabetes Educators Association (ADEA) NSW branch meeting in Sydney. She presented a series of slides about DIY looping. The aim of the talk was to give the attendees some confidence about looping being done
OpenAPS Meetup presentation Last night I was fortunate to be able to share our progress in using OpenAPS with the Sydney Type One Diabetes community. It was great to have an interested audience and chat quite frankly about the good, bad and ugly of building, configuring and
openaps Experimenting with the pi Explorer Hat Today (19 May 2018) I kicked off the build and installation of a Raspberry Pi zero with an 900 MHz Explorer Hat from Enhanced Radio Devices. You might know that
Install and configure a standalone UPS using NUT on Ubuntu I have a few machines around the place on separate networks with their own UPS. This is my guide to remind me how to setup a system to correctly interface with the UPS so that when there is a power outage it will send
Remotely keep watch on a harddrive with smartmontools and postfix Many of these steps were borrowed from other blogs around the place. I've used this technique many times and it has saved me at least once from a dramatic harddrive failure. This is what we are going to do: Setup Postfix to use gmail
Setting up a zoneminder server Download and install ubuntu server 16.04 installer on a usb stick Boot from ubuntu from usb Follow install process until software selection Choose LAMP server and openssh server Boot ubuntu Ensure /etc/apt/sources/list is as follows: deb http://au.archive.ubuntu.