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Hardware required – migrating from Unraid to Napp-It
I’ve been a user of Unraid since 2012, when I had to find a solution to my home storage after Windows Home Server was abandoned by Microsoft. Unraid has been very good for me, and the introduction of a Docker engine with Unraid 6 was very welcome. That said, I’ve recently encountered issues with bitrot, and the fact…
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How to ensure you can revert changes to function apps
As I’ve been playing around with Azure Functions I’ve slowly outgrown the web-based editor. It’s not that it’s not useful, it’s just that I miss intellisense (I’ll come back to this in a later post), and I accidentally deployed a change which broke one of my functions. I’d made dozens of tiny changes, but I simply could not…
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National Rail LDBWS to Twitter
I’ve been playing around with my Nextion and a Particle Photon for a while. The idea is to pull data from a variety of services and have it available on a display by the front door – things like the weather, the outside temperature (from my Netatmo), and the next 3 trains to Seven Sisters from our station.…
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Logic Apps are so expensive!!
I started writing EnfieldTownBot using Azure Logic Apps. It’s pretty easy, but i soon hit a challenge – it’s so expensive! My app was pretty simple – a trigger, a “for…each”, a condition and a http callout to my Twitter Poster Function App: So – if there are no delays, that’s (recurrence + httprequest + foreach + 3 x…
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Quick and easy way to tweet from a function app
After my last post, I spent some time looking through this. Eventually, I found a really lightweight class which does what i need. After spending some time adding some error handling to the api.request() method, I then wrapped a webrequest around it and created a function app. You can find it here: https://github.com/mnbf9rca/TwitterFunctionApp the app takes a simple JSON:…
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Twitter API without libraries – for posting as yourself (e.g. a bot)
I have to say that the twitter API documentation is absolutely abysmal. It’s impossible to navigate – calls make reference to other calls but the major problem is that there are almost no examples – they almost all recommend that you use a library. So how on earth are you supposed to learn how the API…
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How to: access the Honeywell Evohome API documentation
Since writing this post, Honeywell has sold their products to Resideo, the new URL is: https://tccna.resideo.com/WebApi/Help/ApiIntroduction After my last post, I did some more digging. I found that the API is actually documented at https://tccna.honeywell.com/WebApi/Help/ApiIntroduction you need an APP ID to log in with (or OAuth app ID+secret).
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How to: Manage Honeywell Evohome with Azure Logic Apps
When we bought our house a few years ago, we totally gutted it and one of the things we installed was an evohome heating system. Honeywell has an iphone app for the evohome, so recently, I decided to explore the API. Unfortunately, Honeywell doesn’t seem to offer a public API, so I spent a bit of time…