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Reducing your electricity consumption benefits both your finances and the environment—and it all starts with information. While energy-conscious habits (such as turning off unused lights and minimizing electric heating) play an important role, the real game-changer is the ability to monitor and compare your usage in real time, from anywhere. This empowers you to track your progress and quickly detect unusual spikes, whether you’re at … Read more ...
Spring has arrived, making it the perfect moment to check whether my watering system survived the winter – and to reactivate it. In this article, I’ll explain in detail how I enhanced my existing setup with external Bluetooth antennas. We’ll improve our Jeedom test installation for automatic watering by adding (and cloning) new Bluetooth repeaters (“antennas”) to expand the range for receiving moisture sensor data. … Read more ...
This post departs from my usual tech topics, but it’s still about one of my core values: improving my skills and learning new things. While I’ve been passionate about computing since age 8, I’ve always enjoyed working with my hands—whether it’s gardening or building something from scratch. Woodworking has long fascinated me, and I’ve deeply admired skilled carpenters and furniture makers.
The difficult global context … Read more ...
In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to set up an automated outdoor watering system using the Jeedom home automation platform. With just a few components, you’ll be able to remotely control a water valve for a drip irrigation system, making your garden care much more convenient.
The solution uses a soil moisture sensor (communicating with Jeedom over Bluetooth) and a water valve operated via … Read more ...
In this quick guide, I’ll show you the essential steps to prepare a Raspberry Pi Zero for use with the Jeedom automation system. You’ll learn how to flash Raspbian Lite on an SD card using a Windows PC, configure Wi-Fi and SSH before first boot, and make a few tweaks for a headless, robust setup.
Installing Jeedom itself is not covered here, but you’ll find … Read more ...
In this tutorial, I will guide you step by step through installing the outstanding home automation platform Jeedom by migrating it from an older Debian 8.5 system to a fresh Debian 10.3 Virtual Machine (VM). Not only will I cover the installation, but I’ll also demonstrate how to restore a fully functional Jeedom V3 backup.
I chose a clean migration because over time, package and … Read more ...
We learned how to launch an EC2 instance from an Amazon EC2 AMI with batched gekko/gekkoga app/conf deployment. Now we will learn how to use it on a more powerful, larger CPU-optimized instance at a good price (Amazon EC2 Spot feature), so that we can -literally- quickly bruteforce all possible parameters and inputs of a given trading strategy, using Gekkoga’s genetic algorithm.… Read more ...
We tried Gekkoga’s backtesting and noticed it is CPU intensive. I never used Amazon EC2 and its ability to quickly deploy servers, but I was curious to test, as it could make a perfect fit for our needs: on-demand renting of high capacity servers, by using Amazon’s “Spot instance” feature. Beware, on EC2 only the smallest VM can be used for free (almost). The … Read more ...
In previous tutorials, we covered how to install Gekko, use its core features, and build your first custom strategy. In this article, we’ll focus on optimizing your strategies through automatic parameter backtesting with Gekkoga.
Benefits of Automated BacktestingEvery strategy—whether it’s your own custom code or one you found online boasting excellent backtest results—must be tuned for your specific market, currency, and … Read more ...