Introduction This tutorial walks you through the steps to set up a Worldwide Asset eXchange (WAX) test server, establish the WAX currency and transfer some into a test account. This was tested on Ubuntu 18.04 and takes advantage of the waxdev docker container for some of the tooling. Starting the server Start the local …

Introduction I’ve previously written about how I harvest the readings from my utility meters and put them into InfluxDB. This follow up post describes how I clean up that data using InfluxDB’s Flux language into something more usable. Data Let’s start by looking at the data. // This is where we select …

Introduction There are quite a few options for monitoring your whole house water or power usage, but i’m not thrilled about adding a bunch of extra hardware to my breaker panel. I’ve known for a while that the city reads my utility meters by driving by, but had assumed this radio technology was some kind of encrypted …

Introduction Docker is a great lightweight container system for running applications on your home server. I run it on my Synology DS918+which stores all our backups and runs most of the services for our home network. InfluxDB is a great lightweight time-series database that’s ideal for monitoring other …