Samantha Finnigan sjmf

Home Assistant Config for BuildAX

sensors.yaml

⁠Contains a definition for a serial sensor called ‘bax’ -⁠ ⁠⁠Contains the eventual sensors for each data type, for each sensor
⁠⁠HA understands a “sensor” to be of a single data type only. It can’t have multiple streams.

automations.yaml

⁠Triggers the python script when the state of the sensor changes (i.e. a line is received over serial)

Controlling a Raspberry Pi without a screen or keyboard

I’ve been working with Raspberry Pi hardware for a while. Part of my PhD research relied on embedded devices I made using Pi Zeros, and during my undergraduate research (over a decade ago now!), using the original Pi model A, I discovered why running a MySQL database on a Pi’s SD card was a bad idea…

Something that’s always bugged me working with these embedded computers is having to carry around an external keyboard and monitor, especially before setting anything up like WiFi or SSH access. I recently helped to run a hackathon at RSECon’23 as part of the Carpentries Offline project, and it very quickly became clear that carrying around lots of extra hardware to work with Pis (and other brands of embedded computer) is unwieldy, unreliable, and can totally take the joy out of hacking with them.

But, pretty much everyone there brought a laptop with them.

Viewing the video outpu

Disability unconferencing recommendations to 2024 RSECon committee

Summarising: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OGJZ1_w3PgmdCMILqsGI-cGtjzuqHbWBTpNjDSkOX2c/

What worked well:

Coffee breaks & session timing:

having well distributed sessions with breaks in-between was very helpful to allow recovery time
Workshops on the Wednesday broke up the conference

How to connect to University WPA Enterprise RADIUS WiFi on a Rasperry Pi

Plugin the WiFi adapter to your raspberry pi.
Start your Raspberry Pi

3. Connect to Wifi with GUI

3.1. Run WiFi Config application (you may find it on the desktop)
3.2. From WiFi Config Wizard select Manage Network tab

	[Unit]
	Description=SSH tunnel service SSH on local port 22 to 22000 on remote host
	Wants=network-online.target
	After=network-online.target
	StartLimitIntervalSec=0

	[Service]
	User=tunnel
	Group=tunnel
	Type=simple

	[wsl2]
	networkingMode=mirrored
	[experimental]
	hostAddressLoopback=true

	- id: process_serial_data
	alias: Process Serial Data
	description: Process Data from the BAX sensors
	trigger:
	- platform: state
	entity_id: sensor.bax
	action:
	- service: python_script.process_serial_data
	data:
	data: '{{ trigger.to_state.state }}'

	// ==UserScript==
	// @name GotBricks? for bricklink.com
	// @namespace Violentmonkey Scripts
	// @match https://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemInv.asp*
	// @grant none
	// @version 1.01
	// @author Samantha Finnigan https://finnigan.dev/
	// @description 05/01/2024, 17:09:39
	// ==/UserScript==

	!
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	! Description: List for blocking websites which cause procrastination
	! Homepage: https://gist.github.com/sjmf/bf7debc15a07978edc70f3b903ad5241
	! Last modified: 2024-03-13
	!
	! Uses the filter list compiled by heyfocus.com with additional domains added by @sjmf
	!

	\|\|inews.co.uk^

	/* ==UserStyle==
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	@namespace github.com/openstyles/stylus
	@version 1.0.0
	@description Dark-mode for Plusnet Hub Two. Use with stylus addon.
	@author Samantha Finnigan
	==/UserStyle== */

	@-moz-document domain("192.168.1.1"), domain("bthomehub.home") {
	/* Insert code here... */