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Have panels that sit for more than a day? Get DC Plug Caps
With DIY, quite often there are solar panels that wait a little while before getting put into service. Getting a pack of MC4 caps is cheap and saves a load of headache. Just a quick PSA. (Not affiliated, link to RES Supply.)
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No F3800 API is a dealbreaker
Update: There is an MQTT sensor API! Anker’s F3800 (in my case non-plus) is a great home backup/mobile backup battery from the specs but not having any way of getting global notifications defeats it’s use as backup. Now, I am using it to load shift, which is distinctly different from home backup. Load shifting requires…
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Avoid MacOS Time Machine issues with Ubuntu SMB by Separating Users
Warning: Manage SMB users carefully. Using Time Machine along with SMB shares seems to cause an issue when the backup runs the other SMB shares stop working. What is likely happening is MacOS is locking the files as it starts the backup to avoid read write problems. Separating the users, as in having one SMB…
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Simple Camera Projection in Blender (Testing Version 01)
Camera Mapping and Image Projection are very common in 3D to either alter a 3D space with a photo or match digital elements to a photo. There are probably better ways to do this but parenting an object to a camera isn’t a bad start. Map a texture to a plane, parent the plane to…
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Blender Network Rendering: Revisited – Prism
Almost 10 years ago I built a small basement render farm with a few spare PCs to speed up renders. However, planning and pre-production ended up being far more difficult than rendering. Since I’ve returned to animation I’ve mostly been working in 2D, which is far less render intensive, but a recent 3D project revived…
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Why use SQLite with Laravel
At first, it wasn’t immediately obvious why to use SQLite, over MySQL, with Laravel but a couple good cases have come up. For AnimaticBuilder, since a robust user database setup isn’t needed just yet, SQLite works great since it’s fast, portable, and easily versioned. Even later, when a user database is needed, individual SQLite databases…