If your have a smart meter with support for DSMR (Dutch Smart Meter Requirements) then you can retrieve the serial data, via a USB to serial connector, or through a serial to network gateway, by connecting to the "P1 port" on the meter. I will be using a
This is a short guide to get the virtual console working on your Mac. The iDRAC Virtual Console uses Java Web Start (JWS), which was deprecated in Java 9, and starting with Java 11, Oracle completely removed JWS from their JDK distributions. Below you will find instruction on how to
I was already for a while considering dropping WhatsApp, I got rid of my Facebook, Google and other “social media” accounts a longtime ago. But due to the large use of WhatsApp around me I felt forced for a longtime to just use it. But after a long reflection, mainly
A short how-to on building Python GUI applications on MacOS with PyQt5 and py2app. Requirements Xcode MacPorts Qt Install PyQt5 depends on Python version 3.5 or greater and to install it together with other components, like py2app, we will be using pip, the python package management system. First we
A short how-to on creating a Windows 10 base box for use with Vagrant and VirtualBox. Requirements Windows 10 VM (activated) vagrant user with password vagrant 1024 MB Memory APIC on 1 CPU PAE on Nested Paging on VRAM 128 MB 2D/3D Acceleration off Coreaudio Intel HDA Sata HDD