For about 10 days, while I’ve been distracted by fun implementations on my website, this #Arduino Mega board has been running the new alarm code. Constantly communicating with the Python application that will run on the #RaspberryPi — receiving 16 #Zigbee zones and responding accordingly. Not a single communication or checksum error has been logged.

I’d say this is a pretty good start 😀 Time to start building some IO interface boards…

We rented a boom lift recently, to paint part of the house. I used the opportunity to mount an outdoor siren.

Now all I need is a control cable from the alarm cabinet to the attic, and I can get this thing wired up.

To prevent annoying the neighbours too much — this thing will only go off if there is a manually triggered panic alarm, or intrusion with more than one zone in alarm.

After some trial and error I’m ready to try out the notes section on my Hugo blog. I’ve been thinking about this for a while — and this time it might just work. More changes than anticipated were needed to allow for no title — lists, RSS, OG image…

I like how @kev@fosstodon.org is doing his notes, and my implementation is inspired by that.

My goal is to reduce friction when posting a project update, while still using my own website.