As part of my home monitoring system I needed a display that I can use at different places in the house, preferably without a full computer attached.

And ideally I should not need Ethernet cables run around the whole house, so I decided to use a Jeenode to supply the intelligence, with a LCD display attached using one of the Jeenode LCD-adapters.

So I knocked up some code on one of my Jeenodes to do the display part, and some code (in Ruby) on one of the Mac's - and this is the end result :

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Our home monitoring system is coming along with the addition of a set of jeenodes (see them as wireless and battery driven Arduinos)

The slave nodes look like this :

the green box houses the 3 AA batteries making this a truly wireless solution, enabling me to move this around to anywhere in the house.

At the server things look like this

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My favourite safety/disk utility - SoftRaid does not work with Snow Leopard OsX - and the new release has been "in the works" since early 2009.

But there is hope - as their website has the following new announcement :

The SoftRAID 4.0 official release is near. We expect sometime in late January to mid February 2010. Upgrades from SoftRAID 3.x will cost $69. All customers who purchased after January 1, 2009, are eligible for a free upgrade to SoftRAID 4.0.
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Our weather station is now online at http://www.gisvold.co.uk:81/weather/LWCWeb/ - as a experiment until I get all the data gathered in one place.

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At least it means that I get to test the rain measuring part of my new weather station (-;

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