AllSky: new box, dark frames & other tweaks

When conditions allow, I've been having fun with Allsky.

What started because of a meteor shower, has become a wider interest in things in the night sky.

And I've been tidying & tweaking my system.

Hot-Bin Composting

We are now proud owners of a hot-bin composter.

I didn't know anything about this a few weeks ago.

But I'm now a bit of a hot-compost fundi.

AllSky: taking pictures of the night sky

I'd heard that a meteor shower was on its way

so I rushed around and built a camera system.

Bee Box: the leaf cutters have arrived!

It was quite a surprise!

We came back after a long weekend to find 2 chambers occupied.

My Smart TV has a problem with JPEGs

It will load & display some, but not all images.

Which is not great when we are trying to show-off our holiday snaps!

Pi-Hole; network ad blocker

Adverts can bog you down.

 

They slow down the loading of web pages, especially on modest machines.

So its high time I setup a network ad-blocker!

OpenWRT + Plusnet Hub One: #4 the verdict

It's not for me!

It has been an interesting project, but I have had to ditch the OpenWRT software.

BirdNet-Pi: upgrading the drive

Time to replace the uSD drive for a larger USB drive.

 

This is not rocket science...

...but once again, due to my poor memory, I need to record the procedure.

BirdNet-Pi: Species Stats

We are well into the 2024 BirdBox season.

 

Last year, blue tits made use of our new woodcrete bird box...

...but this year the great tits are having a turn.