Desert Home

I live in the Arizona Desert, Southwestern USA. It gets hot here, and my power bills got out of hand. This is a journal of my various efforts to bring this problem under control using the cheapest technology I could find. Saving money shouldn't cost a fortune.

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Tuesday, November 8, 2016

Hook a Raspberry Pi to the Amazon Dot

Earlier this year Hackster.io had a contest looking for good internet of voice examples using a Raspberry Pi and an Amazon Echo < link ...

Saturday, November 5, 2016

Amazon Dot and My Desert Home

I already warned you that this was going to get complicated and would probably drive you nuts in my first post on the Amazon Dot < link ...

Tuesday, November 1, 2016

I Got One of Those New Fangled Amazon Dot Things

Obviously, this is part 1. Yes, I took the plunge and bought an Amazon Dot before it was available and waited patiently for the release da...

Wednesday, October 19, 2016

After a Long Testing Period, Moving Forward With My Temperature Sensor

A while back I came up with a battery operated temperature sensor that sent its data over my XBee network < link >. This little device...

Tuesday, October 4, 2016

So, My Raspberry Pi Web Server Was Running Slow

I was sitting on a bar stool showing off my Pi web server that controls my house and had to wait 15-20 seconds for each screen change. Loadi...

Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Raspberry Pi, More About Installing a SSD

I just finished helping a reader get an SSD (solid state drive) running on his Pi, and realized that the documentation that the Pi folk prov...

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