Category Archives: Uncategorized

Switched from and old computer runing FreeBSD to a new Raspberry Pi 3 as the computer collecting the weather data. Should consume a fraction of the power and do the same job.

Seems the webcam is only 1/2 dead… by that I mean the wifi part no longer works, but if I plug an ethernet cable in directly it works fine… very strange. So, rather than run an ethernet cable outside and … Continue reading →

Seems like the webcam is dead… Guess it is time to look for something new… Maybe it is time to go back to the Raspberry Pi camera idea and see if I can make that work. once the snow melts … Continue reading →

And it is here folks… high speed internet … 3/6/10MBPS… Qwest/centurylink has lost out by never upgrading the DSL speeds. http://www.mtnbroadband.com/ Been running on it now for about 8 hours and it is blazzing fast compared to the DSL. 6MBPS … Continue reading →

Power outage on 1/22/2011 – 6 hours… wasn’t that a load of fun. United Power page

Since I had to rebuild the server and everything else I decided to give the website a facelift and update it.