InfluxDB : Stay away from them!

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Summary:Do not use InfluxDB, especially on IoT/RPI3 (32 bit). You will run into an (will stay) unfixable problem when data size gets big Background/Story:I have created a great Grafana/InfluxDB (seemed a match in heaven) solution to be deployed to client sites as monitoring for Sungrow SH5k inverters. Beautiful presentation, and…
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Quick roundup for Mar-Apr

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Packages of note in the Internet worlds: pfSense (2.3 release) Runs off Bootstrap front end now, FreeBSD to 10.3 base. Looks very 'slick'. I did break the upgrade, cos the 'RX-offload' bug with Xen still exists in this release. Has to be turned off from the host. Code snippet given…
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Solax SK-SU-5000 some details :)

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I have been hunting information on this unit's management for (you guessed it) automation and fun charting like a good crazy sysadmin would do. I called up the local supplier which patched me through to a support guy (Nice guy!). 2 simple questions and 2 simple answers from him :)…
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Solar Output so far

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Just had the first day with solar output and charted. At this time of the day, I have gotten solar from 0800-1700. That's at least 1/3 of the day generating. The timeline will be as follows: 08:00 : Solar starts generating (Battery ~19%) 09:00 : Battery starts charging 09:45 :…
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Big Techie week

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BananaPi arrived * Tested with Fedora Core 20 image. Works great, but kinda bloated * Tested with Bananian. Loaded fine * Read up on how to create own images (might be next on list), to base something off Kali Linux (aka. BT5) Solar power was installed into home (13/5/15) *…
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