Earth Notes: On Website Technicals (2025-03)

Updated 2025-03-13 15:16 GMT.
By Damon Hart-Davis.

Tech updates: heat battery dashboard detail, fewer daily, YouTube podcast feed...

Considering a grass-roots movement to form a citizens' assembly to set terms for a Royal Commission to guide the forming of a ministerial task force to consider the scoping and creation of a focus group to sketch terms of reference for a study group to outline the agenda for a pre-meeting to form a steering group to get ready to think about upgrading the RPi server, easy does it... The Thermino heat battery is alive again!

2025-03-13: YouTube Podcast LITE

Today I made the 'lite' version of the EOU podcast available via YouTube, connecting my YouTue channel to the the EOU lite RSS feed, at the suggestion of Podnews.

I will not see any audio or other traffic from them I think.

I do not know if YouTube will roll episodes off the end, ie drop them, when my lite feed does. (My lite feed only shows the five most recent non-music non-VIDEO episodes.)

2025-03-09: Fewer Daily

Regenerating some of the daily energy time series was taking a long time, and I do not think that the series in question were useful.

So I stopped (re)generating them, by moving aside the daily scripts for the Eddi h1 and h2 boost and divert data extraction.

2025-03-03: Heat Battery Detail

The Sunamp Thermino heat battery has been reconnected. I have added a little more detail to the dashboard page:

Diversion plus boost today: 3.589kWh (div=0, DHW h1d=0.0 h1b=2.7, heat battery h2d=0.9 h2b=0.0)

No current diversion (div=0, at 16:41Z) in progress. There was a pasteurisation cycle for the DHW cylinder in the wee hours (2.7kWh) and PV diversion to the Thermino during the day (0.9kWh).

2025-03-09: updated line

Diversion plus boost today: 3.904kWh (current diversion 367W, DHW h1d=0.0 h1b=0.0, heat battery h2d=3.9 h2b=0.0)