jerzone

jerzone, 1 month ago to animals

Trail run with a friend and her pup this morning. 40°F and more snow on the ground than expected, even more on the way over the next 24+ hours.

#TrailRunning #DogsOfMastodon #NHwx

jerzone, 1 month ago to solar

Solar power realization: I should charge the plug-in car during sunny days. In the past it was programmed to happen overnight, hoping for a lower electricity rate. But, if there's power coming from panels, it’s much better to just have that go straight into the car rather than expect “selling" it to power company and using it later will be cheaper.

#solar #hybrid

jerzone, 10 months ago to spiders

Along with the smoke we've also been having super humid mornings making all of the spider webs stand out vividly in the dew. Poked my phone camera in a bit closer to see if anyone was home. Hello!

#spiders #webs #dew

fine spider webs with a thicker arch above an opening, long legged thin spider waiting for visitors
Funnel weaver spider in the epicenter of a large ground covering web that tapers down to a hole, the spider is inside, waiting

jerzone, 8 months ago to hiking

Hiked Kearsarge with the kid this morning. Perfect weather.
#hiking #NewHampshire

It isn’t easy growing on a rock AND along a busy trail. Tree roots splayed everywhere
Trailside tiny pond near top with lots of frogs
Rock with what looks like two inch long crystals embedded in it, almost bone like in places

jerzone, 3 months ago to random

Taking my mind off other things by perusing gravel bikes. January is a bad time to get a new bike isn't it?

Cannondale Topstone
Specialized Diverge w/funky rear “suspension”
Trek Checkpoint

jerzone, 8 months ago to 3DPrinting

Question for #3DPrinting community, notably those with 3D pen experience. The terrain maps I print use multi-color printing to color the trails, which takes more time and filament to do. Less important roads I leave as grooves. But could the whole map be grooves that get filled in with a 3D pen afterwards? It’s fine detail and the pen work I’ve seen is pretty uneven, but I’ve never tried it.

jerzone, 7 months ago to random

Getting bibs for recovery trainer rides was not as clever as I thought. I figured they’d at least stay on during wildly fluctuating weight changes (-20lbs). Not so clever are all the extra steps before you can go to the bathroom: remove glasses, earbuds, shirt, then shoulder straps.

jerzone, 10 days ago to random

This needs its own post.
First off, I’d love to explore it, especially the very top. But what is up with the windows?? The center jumble on second floor to start, but even the far right windows on 1st, 2nd, 3rd floor all have different spacing. Middle decks are staggered, in fact the whole middle “shaft” seems like an add-on. The left/right 3rd story roofs don’t match, other than the slate.

⭐️8 stars, keep people guessing!

jerzone, 9 months ago to homeassistant

Interesting solar hot water heating issue today that I just happened to catch by accident. I heard the electric heating element turn on even though it’s a clear, sunny day. Checked #homeassistant and the device panel, temperature above 200˚F, but return pipe was barely warm. Increased pump speed, no help. Hooked up hoses to drain the glycol into bucket while pumping it back in another connector and a lot of trapped air was released. It had a vapor lock.
Have hit this issue a couple times in recent years. Something in the system is letting air leak in. It’s an old unit, the electric company gave it to previous owners in the late 70’s’ or early 80's in exchange for meter readings. I've changed out the tank a couple times, but that's about it.
#solarheat

solar heating pump and control electronics
top of pump area, lots of corrosion

jerzone, 10 months ago to python

I'm trying to extract the python scripts that make the mtb 3D terrain so it's on my computer and I can just tweak/run it locally (vs. some notebook, drive, collab stuff).
Seems like everything is almost going, except “import gdal" fails, a gis lib. I try to install and find people suggest installing other package managers like miniconda, aniconda. Down that rathole I go, trying to get them to install/run, not much luck. Another site shows using brew to install, which I have and it works. Except, still gdal isn't found. Someone else says to then run “pip3 install gdal” which barfs halfway through with a bunch of errors like: use of undeclared identifier 'GDALVectorInfoOptionsNew';

Man, I hate packages.

#python #gis #oldfart

jerzone, 8 months ago to Mushrooms

Had a couple tenths of an inch rain last night so our trails, which are already pretty techy and sketch to begin with were quite spicy on our Tuesday morning group ride. Easier lines were taken or walked, but it was a fun outing. There's a resurgence of mushrooms, which I didn't think possible given this year’s bumper crop. One trail had a couple giant mushroom "circles” where large orange coral fungus were lined up around the perimeter.
#mtb #mushrooms

Steep downhill section with a multi-stage rock line in the middle, somewhat off-camber in places.
A whole bunch of tiny parasol mushrooms among the old leaf bed of the woods.

jerzone, 4 months ago to homeassistant

I installed SolarEdge integration into HomeAssistant around beginning of month and it was working just fine. Somewhere along the line the lifeTimeData/solaredge_lifetime_energy quit working and the entity shows as “Unknown”. Current power is still fine. Check the json from API call and the data is there and is fine, it's just something in HA quit parsing it.
The code on git for this integration seems straightforward, but I don't know enough about the file structure of HA to even know where to find the installation and check the files (File Editor exploring hasn't helped). Have deleted/reinstalled, no change. Any advice?

#homeassistant

jerzone, 10 months ago to 3DPrinting

Today in #3dprinting solutions, garbage can rescue!

The kid keeps letting me know the “pedal" for opening garbage can has been broken for a while, shouldn't we buy a new trashcan?
Opened it up and the black, hard plastic part between foot lever and push rod broke in two. They made the connecting section skinnier so it would flex, but obviously it won’t bend forever.
I redesigned the part to be a ball joint (Tinkercad!) and it seems to work. About 8 cents of plastic to print.

jerzone, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

Some random shots from the ride. About 30 miles on back roads and you see a bit of everything.
#BikeTooter #GravelCycling #biking

jerzone, 8 months ago to hiking

A week before the kid goes back to school and I talked him into hiking Mt Cardigan. Beauty of a morning!

#hiking #NewHampshire

higher up still, you can see seams in the rock where the AI algorithms had to repeat a texture and didn’t think we’d be looking, but otherwise looks quite real, as is the sweat on our brow despite the steady breeze. A++ simulation
Still a ways from the peak but the forests and mountains of New Hampshire and Vermont seem to stretch endlessly
View from the top from behind son, just a little bit aways from the tower which is under construction behind us. Puffs of clouds seem to be almost at the same elevation, the mountain rock slab looks well worn and yet barely affected by all of the feet over the years

jerzone, 10 months ago to homeassistant

I have the weirdest #HomeAssistant bug. Sometimes, usually after rebooting the mac/updates, it won't let me sign in, “Invalid username or password”. I'm logged in with same credentials on my phone and I can log out/log in to another mac w/safari and those credentials just fine. The last time I figured it out was a while ago, but I forgot what the magic trick was. HA is on an old Pi 3.

jerzone, 7 months ago to random

Watched this last night. Huge project and man that is a lot of steel! Looking forward to the next video with installation and watching it run.

https://youtu.be/7l5xxIGiW7o

jerzone, 5 months ago to cooking

Wife came home the other day from King Arthur Flour, “I bought you a scone mix!”

😶

I don't mean to be ungrateful, but what's in a scone mix doesn’t help MAKE scones any easier. It's like saying, “I measured two cups of flour for you to make scones with!” 🙃

#cooking

jerzone, 9 months ago to random

Obligatory to drag out one of the typewriters after that poll.
#antique

jerzone, 10 months ago to 3DPrinting

Full size print complete!
The culmination of years of learning #3dprinting, experiments, messing with map data and scripts, trying to learn CAD programs and other tools to combine everything so the trails could be printed on the terrain AND be accurate. Colored water is a bonus. “:^)

jerzone, 10 months ago to 3DPrinting

Adventures in STL land continues. Tried a couple more tools which failed for various reasons, f360 just kept getting worse (update?), then found mention of Blender's 3d Print tools and gave that a try. First off they have a version for M1 macs and it doesn’t go out to lunch for a couple hours working with these files. Speaking of, there's +600k manifold errors in the STLs and it fixes those, woohoo!
Then it's my old grey matter against the millions of menus and buttons in blender to get two STLs subtracted. Discovered add modifier, clicky click clickety and voilà!
Uhm, why are there walls? “:^)
#3dprinting #blender #gis #maps #mtb

jerzone, 6 months ago to random

Trainer ride after breakfast (33°F outside), #mtb ride after lunch (54°F). A good day.

jerzone, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to MTB

Looking through 2017 photos and found some fat biking photos. A lot has happened since then, but I still have that Suzy Q from Rocky Mountain and it's a fun bike. Looking forward to another season once things freeze and there’s snow.

#mtb #fatBikes #winter

jerzone, 4 months ago to 3DPrinting

At least one casualty from this morning's high wind, 2/3rds of my favorite wind spinner is now missing. Once the sun’s up and it's not so nasty out I'll see what became of the other parts. It's survived a couple years I think, with some pretty strong storms. We're getting sleet now, so maybe the extra weight of slush accumulation caused it to spin unevenly and fly apart. Peak gust recorded, 46mph.

#3dprinting #NHwx

2 of the 3 wind spinner panels are completely missing, last one is spinning very fast in strong winds

jerzone, 1 month ago to random

From the “he likes to party" department.

Time to drain and recharge the solar hot water system, replacing the expansion tank along the way. Been waiting for a cloudy, rainy day so I don't get scalded.

#SolarHotWater