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The Enchanted City, Petras Kalpokas

I think this is so good, wow, to me the vagueness and glow give it the bleary feel of an early morning with the fog burning off. Pretty sure that's a graveyard beyond the riders and trees, with crypts and decorative landscaping. The buildings have only enough detail to give you a sense of architecture and beauty and let you fill in the rest. The riders seem worn out, world-weary, which is relevant to my existence

#art @art #enchanted #lifeAndDeath #glow

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The #homeassistant #glow worked reasonably* well during these days, so I built an enclosure for it.
I don't have a 3D printer, so I used an ugly electronics box.

* it logged some huge power spikes, in the order of half megawatt 😅, that are probably caused by some feedback loop between the status led and the sensor. Building an enclosure for it should fix it.
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Hey, it made a difference!
The chart shows the #homeassistant #glow #wifi signal strength. The left trace is before, the gap is when I disassembled it to solder the connector and the right trace is now. Also, you can see clearly when I closed the electric box door after reinstalling it: it's made of thin wood, but apparently is enough to drop the signal by like 5dBm 😯

The signal is still weak, but if it stopped dropping the #connection, is enough for me!
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Well, it works! It was definitely simpler than I anticipated!
In #homeassistant I can see the current power consumption and is pretty similar to what I can read on the counter itself. Nice!
I'll see how the night will go and tomorrow we'll see what to do with the box. On the Home Assistant #Glow website there's a printable box, but I don't own a 3D printer, so I'll have to arrange something with a standard electric box...
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I mounted the #homeassistant #glow temporarily with some tape. I want to test it before building a box for it.
I didn't need to mess with the #photodiode trimmer, it did match already very well the electric #counter pulses.
The #esp32 struggled a lot to get wifi signal, we are very far from the access point, with multiple angled stone wall between. It's a miracle it could connect at all! I'll probably mod the #mcu to solder an external, bigger #wifi antenna.