Powerpal is a bluetooth based smart energy monitor that basically connects your electricity meter to your smartphone and tracks in real time how your home is using energy.
It does so by counting the number of flashes on your power meter to determine the number of kilowatts consumed.
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[info] Note: I'm not sponsored by Powerpal but I do get a small gift card if you use my referral link.
If you want to know more about what you are getting into the read on!
Read more »]]>I purchased one from Amazon Australia and received one from Amazon US. In US, the doors have the hinges on the left side as oppose to the right side hence the door locks are on the other side. When I received the lock from from Amazon and installed it, it didn't work as the lock wanted to turn the other way to lock. Amazon customer support were not helpful and offered a return. Fortunately I reached out to Schlage who replied rather belatedly but replied with knowledge that all I needed to do was to factory reset the lock and let it auto detect the handling by itself! Amazingly easy, pity it wasn't mentioned in the manuals that factory reset could change the handling.
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Tried reinstalling MySQL workbench without any luck and Google wasn't of much help as well.
Often running through each of the upgrader tool carefully, I usually end up with some error or another.
500 server errors are the most annoying without much clues in the logs.
Here's a couple of fixes I found...
They provide a fragmented list of DVRs with supported cameras at swann-camera-compatibility.pdf (accurate as of Feb 2018).
It turns out that their cameras are rebranded hikvision cameras which cost a fraction of the Swan camera equivalent.
So I set out to try and archive the OEM version of the same camera for your reference,
Read more »]]>It all started when I started researching the interesting world of Initial Coin Offering (ICOs) and stumbled on this BitAir which seems like an interesting idea at first.
Read more »]]>"BitAir.io announces itself as the biggest ICO of 2017 with a goal (hard cap) of 70 000 Ethereums. In one sentence, the goal of this ICO is to become the number one player in air ticket sales in the world, not less!"