mike’s brain dump

Death to GoDaddy GoDaddy sent me a Web Hosting Deluxe Renewal reminder (very courteous of them). It was for $839.40/5yrs. I decided that was too much for a pretty much useless site. I considered downgrading to the “Standard” hosting plan for $5/mo but couldn’t justify it. The nice thing was that the old site had been up a while and I got somewhat used to the wordpress content management scheme. But its time as passed, over 12 or 13 years since the first post on that site....

Project Overview A lot of work into these roof shades… this is a many part series

We like to open and close the shades more now that we can ask Alexa to do it. THE END RESULT PARTS LIST Key bits that makes this work: The motor with a radio - Somfy Roll Up Wirefree R28 RTS Motor The motor radio to z-wave thing - Somfy ZRTSI RTS 16 Channel Z-Wave to RTS Plug-in Interface Wall Module Wink Hub - The z-wave thing to internet thing An Alexa Device - Echo Dot IFTTT There are also some other little bits that are needed, but are less exciting:...