www.gisvold.co.uk - Weather

A centralised store for house automation data

tor — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 09:26:32 +0000

In my hobby work on house information/house automation for our house I needed somewhere to store all the most recent data collected from various sensors and systems, in such a way that it would be accessible from any computer on our extended network. And I chose to use Memcached - as it is running purely in memory, and by its very nature is fast and accessible over the network.

It's data is not persistent after a crash - but I had no need for this, as I collect data very frequently, and persistence was not needed.

Here is a recent output from a dump of data stored in memcached :

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My world today

tor — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:31:05 +0000

It's rained a bit..

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Status of our home monitoring

tor — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 17:50:40 +0000

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

This morning

tor — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:39:34 +0000

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So colder - and trains not running

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This is why it feels so much colder in the UK than in Norway

tor — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:15:07 +0000

It is getting colder

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but nothing compared to Røros in Norway which has -40 degrees celsius for the 2nd day in a row.

But this is why if feels so cold in the UK

Btw. - a quite neat map

The humidity level is extremely high!
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Snow in Godalming

tor — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:06:02 +0000

For all pics - click on them for a lager image.

Walking down the hill to the railway station

And here we found the first abandoned car

At the station where we waited for one hour until they told us that there would be no more trains.
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Frost in the UK

tor — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:03:06 +0000

It's around zero at the moment, and snowing lightly, so of course the trains have announced a "revised" timetable

btw. this is the temperature

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