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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If you want to know more about what you are getting into the read on!

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Schlage Encode is a great wifi lock that allows you to share virtual keys, assign pin codes or use a fall back physical key.

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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Strapi is a NodeJS based open source CMS. At present it is in active development and in alpha and probably not something you would run in production. Having been experimenting with this, whilst there are articles documenting docker setups, Elastic beanstalk was something I was really familiar with and would usually beable to setup a CI pipeline to Elastic beanstalk in a few mins so I went down this rabbit hole...

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