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Re: Sniffer Air Quality (AQI) Monitor using ESP32 + PMSA003 + BME680

Robert Accettura — Sun, 01 Nov 2020 18:28:32 -0000

The problem is dust accumulation in the chamber such as:
https://aqicn.org/sensor/pm...

Iirc the docs recommend starting the sensor 30 seconds before taking a reading to let air flow and prevent inaccuracies due to disturbing dust, then take a reading.

Command is something like: 0x42, 0x4D, 0xE4, 0x00, 0x00, 0x01, 0x73

Re: Sniffer Air Quality (AQI) Monitor using ESP32 + PMSA003 + BME680

Robert Accettura — Sat, 31 Oct 2020 23:22:46 -0000

Did you figure out how to deal with putting the sensors into standby? ESPHome at present doesn't seem to support it. WIthout that these Plantower sensors ( and presumably anything of similar design) have a pretty short lifespan until they start losing accuracy.

Re: 0.51: Massive history speed up, finished automation editor and official vacuum cleaner support

Robert Accettura — Sat, 26 Aug 2017 22:58:35 -0000

Sounds like this bug https://github.com/home-ass...

Re: Engadget Giveaway: win one of three Kindle Fires, courtesy of TurboTax!

Robert Accettura — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 14:31:01 -0000

Got to be in it to win it.

Re: The Attack of an Open Request

Robert Accettura — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 10:07:58 -0000

Once again, you're making up things and putting them in other people's
mouth. I never "suggested" you take any post down. I noted that Gerv
voluntarily pulled his from planet. I also noted you created a post
against him (more on that later) and didn't. I never "suggested" or told
you to do anything. As we've said from the very beginning, planet just
aggregates, not moderates. Participants moderate themselves. Nor did I
request an apology as you suggest in your last paragraph. I'd love to
see a citation for where that was requested.

Posting your viewpoints is what we've been advocating since we took over
planet in 2007. Again, suggesting otherwise is putting words in other
people's mouth. Citations where myself or another planet peer suggested
otherwise are respectfully requested.

Had Gerv donated money in your name, or that of anyone in the LGBT
community to an anti-LGBT rights organization, it would without question
be taken as an "attack", and understandably so. The suggestion that in the reverse it's not
an attack is just disingenuous. You could have just as easily donated
quietly or not said anything. You made it public for a reason. I'll be
on the record saying I'd be just as disappointed in him if he did the
same thing.

Lastly, creating posts without even naming who you're talking or
referring to so they can defend themselves is passive aggressive and
quite frankly just childish behavior. You are clearly unwilling to
engage in any meaningful or adult dialog having demonstrated this
repeatedly. That's the most disheartening of all.

I expect much higher of the Mozilla community... sadly I feel as I can't expect much if anything from you at this point.

We've got quite a few community members who have strong religious
beliefs. Attacking those simply for their beliefs isn't OK any more
than it is to attack someone for their sexual identity. The vast
majority of Mozillians are above all this. I'd encourage you to at
least /consider/ joining them.

Don't just talk the talk about tolerance, it's not good enough… walk the walk.

Respectfully,

Robert

Re: Engadget Giveaway: win one of five Nokia Lumia 710s on T-Mobile, courtesy of Nokia!

Robert Accettura — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:16:41 -0000

Awesome

Re: My $2.99 (shipped) iPhone 4 dock and cable

Robert Accettura — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 22:50:38 -0000

That looks pretty nice. Wonder where I can find one of the same make? A quick search shows 1,000 different variations of mystery quality.

Re: Our online lives slowly leak away

Robert Accettura — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 09:22:44 -0000

1. Don't rely on third party services. Keep your data and back it up. I'm looking into further ways to centralize my online life by unifying... more on that to come :-)

2. You can use YOUR OWN COMPANY for offsite backups. Rackspace cloud files or Amazon's S3, Mozy, etc

If a website disappearing means you're loosing something of value... you're doing it wrong.

Re: RSS: interesting or boring? (Hint @marshallk and @louisgray, we’re not normal)

Robert Accettura — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:02:44 -0000

This is really only half true.

Sure it shows up faster in Twitter, but the signal to noise ratio is also vastly worse. If you have all day to sit there and sort through thousands of people you follow on twitter... great. But most people have day jobs that involve something other than social media. They need to get information and get moving.

You're also relying on 1 single service to be up and running, which we all know isn't something you can rely on. This will never change as Twitter is a sole company not a network or standard. At least with RSS if Google Reader started to suck, you know another company will spring up and offer something to entice us all to switch. Nobody would skip a beat.

Twitter? Rebuild your network somewhere else.

Twitter only beats RSS if your time and effort are free.

Re: Confessions Of A Pack Rat (aka My Document Retention Policy)

Robert Accettura — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 09:46:27 -0000

Right on!

If you act ethically and follow the law, those documents only help you. It's the people who try to beat the system that find paperwork to be a liability.

You can tell the ethics of someone by how well they document things. If people insist that everything be done in person and refuse to put anything to paper (or email), be afraid. I personally follow up and confirm things by email from time to time. That way if people go back on their word or change their mind... I have something to back me up.

Thanks for bringing this up. I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks this way. Destroying documentation is just an admission to guilt in my opinion.

Re: categories v tags in WP?

Robert Accettura — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 13:48:06 -0000

iirc there's a plugin or two.

Personally I keep a handful of categories, and utilize tags more loosely like keywords. IMHO no real point in combining since it doesn't really provide any benefit. Better off just ignoring one.

Re: The Future of the Internet (and How to Stop It), by Jonathan Zittrain

Robert Accettura — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:41:43 -0000

Damn... I've got a few books still in que. I added this to the wishlist (my ordering que). Sounds like my kind of read.

Now to add a few more hours to the day so I can do so.