I found something to share with you!

[David Brooks]

It took me a while to open the book.

https://www.blurb.ca/books/11077032-birds-of-kingston-2022

I expect most here will find it easy.

Enjoy!

[T i m]

Post by David Brooks
It took me a while to open the book.
https://www.blurb.ca/books/11077032-birds-of-kingston-2022

What's that, your lunch menu choices?

Cheers, T i m

[David Brooks]

Post by T i m

Post by David Brooks
It took me a while to open the book.
https://www.blurb.ca/books/11077032-birds-of-kingston-2022

What's that, your lunch menu choices?

<rolls eyes>

If you didn't watch yesterday, I can firmly recommend this programme:-
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001z1fk/countryfile-lambing

Watching the birth of lambs is a truly amazing experience.

[T i m]

Post by David Brooks

Post by T i m

Post by David Brooks
It took me a while to open the book.
https://www.blurb.ca/books/11077032-birds-of-kingston-2022

What's that, your lunch menu choices?

<rolls eyes>
If you didn't watch yesterday, I can firmly recommend this programme:-
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001z1fk/countryfile-lambing
Watching the birth of lambs is a truly amazing experience.

Ah, trolling again David. ;-(

The birth of any animal in nature is amazing. Watching a farmer
pretending to care about an animal when they are going to cut their
throats while they are still but children is disgusting.

And they cut their throats for you David. Their blood is on your hands.

Cheers, T i m

[T i m]

Post by David Brooks
It took me a while to open the book.
https://www.blurb.ca/books/11077032-birds-of-kingston-2022
I expect most here will find it easy.

I think the issue is that it's not particularly intuitive or logical.

Like, if you were handling a real page you would 'grab' the edge of the
page you were turning and move *that*. So when you put the mouse near
the edge and the page starts to roll up, you would grab (not click)
*that*, (not the page behind it) and drag / flick it across.

It might handle more logically on a phone.

Cheers, T i m

[David Brooks]

Post by T i m

Post by David Brooks
It took me a while to open the book.
https://www.blurb.ca/books/11077032-birds-of-kingston-2022
I expect most here will find it easy.

I think the issue is that it's not particularly intuitive or logical.
Like, if you were handling a real page you would 'grab' the edge of the
page you were turning and move *that*. So when you put the mouse near
the edge and the page starts to roll up, you would grab (not click)
*that*, (not the page behind it) and drag / flick it across.
It might handle more logically on a phone.

I came across the book's author whilst investigating EXIF data.

MUCH to explore here:- https://exiftool.org

Quote:-

Phil has a master's degree in nuclear physics and is now officially
retired from his position at Queen's University where he worked with the
Nobel-prize-winning Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) team and other
SNOLab experiments from 1990 to 2020. For SNO he wrote the software to
aquire, format, store and display all of the hundreds of terabytes of
data generated by the detector; software that continues to be used by
SNO+ for their even greater data volume.

ExifTool started as a simple utility used to display metadata from
images hosted on the SNO web site, but quickly expanded in scope as Phil
got involved with digital photography beginning in 2001. During
retirement Phil continues to enjoy digital photography, a hobby which he
now applies to bird watching. A selection of his birding pictures may be
found in his recent Birds of Kingston book.

[Snit]

Post by David Brooks

Post by T i m

Post by David Brooks
It took me a while to open the book.
https://www.blurb.ca/books/11077032-birds-of-kingston-2022
I expect most here will find it easy.

I think the issue is that it's not particularly intuitive or logical.
Like, if you were handling a real page you would 'grab' the edge of the
page you were turning and move *that*. So when you put the mouse near
the edge and the page starts to roll up, you would grab (not click)
*that*, (not the page behind it) and drag / flick it across.
It might handle more logically on a phone.

I came across the book's author whilst investigating EXIF data.
MUCH to explore here:- https://exiftool.org
Quote:-
Phil has a master's degree in nuclear physics and is now officially
retired from his position at Queen's University where he worked with the
Nobel-prize-winning Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) team and other
SNOLab experiments from 1990 to 2020. For SNO he wrote the software to
aquire, format, store and display all of the hundreds of terabytes of
data generated by the detector; software that continues to be used by
SNO+ for their even greater data volume.
ExifTool started as a simple utility used to display metadata from
images hosted on the SNO web site, but quickly expanded in scope as Phil
got involved with digital photography beginning in 2001. During
retirement Phil continues to enjoy digital photography, a hobby which he
now applies to bird watching. A selection of his birding pictures may be
found in his recent Birds of Kingston book.

JPG files can have meta data? Who know?

:)

Sorry, referencing an old debate. Bad form.

[T i m]

On 06/05/2024 15:34, David Brooks wrote:

<snip>

Post by David Brooks
I came across the book's author whilst investigating EXIF data.
MUCH to explore here:- https://exiftool.org

Erm, I'm *much* more interested in getting my d-i-y anemometer working
thanks.

<snip>

Cheers, T i m

[David Brooks]

Post by T i m
<snip>

Post by David Brooks
I came across the book's author whilst investigating EXIF data.
MUCH to explore here:- https://exiftool.org

Erm, I'm *much* more interested in getting my d-i-y anemometer working
thanks.

Ask Siri. That's accurate enough for what you want to do.

Here, right now, Siri says ....... "The wind's blowing from the North
West @ 9 mph"

[T i m]

On 06/05/2024 22:31, David Brooks wrote:

<snip>

Post by David Brooks

Post by T i m
Erm, I'm *much* more interested in getting my d-i-y anemometer working
thanks.

Ask Siri. That's accurate enough for what you want to do.

Is it?

Post by David Brooks
Here, right now, Siri says ....... "The wind's blowing from the North

And is it?

So there is actually a wind speed sensor near your house? You couldn't
have local gusts funnelling because of the landscape?

And what if you wanted to see what the wind speeds were yesterday, last
month or last year?

How much involvement did you have putting it together?

I've been experimenting with a new (to me) ESP32 module, a Wemos ESP32
Lolin32 lite with with the thoughts to it being the 'brains' on my
anemometer because it has the option of battery power.

https://mischianti.org/esp32-wemos-lolin32-lite-high-resolution-pinout-and-specs/

I currently have a 3.7V 3700mAh LiPo battery and I'm running on it now
to measure the runtime. Hopefully it won't need to use the LiPo battery
much as I'm hoping to have it running from a solar charged 12V LA battery.

I've added a resistor potential divider and connected it to one of the
GPIO pins set as ADC and calibrated it against my DMM and so far I
predict a runtime of about 30 hours.

I bought two of the lite boards and I'm also configuring the second as a
general purpose sensor board. It's currently giving temperature, current
(up to 3.2A) and will soon have a hall effect magnetic sensor. There is
suggestion that there is a magnet on the last digit of our mechanical
gas meter and so potentially I could log the gas consumption.

I might use that to also monitor the charge / discharge current on the
anemometer unit (just for benchmarking).

So far it's all been straight configuration for sensors etc so I haven't
needed to call on Apd for his coding witchcraft. ;-)

Cheers, T i m

[David Brooks]

Post by T i m
<snip>

Post by David Brooks

Post by T i m
Erm, I'm *much* more interested in getting my d-i-y anemometer
working thanks.

Ask Siri. That's accurate enough for what you want to do.

Is it?

Post by David Brooks
Here, right now, Siri says ....... "The wind's blowing from the North

And is it?

I can only guess - you should be able to judge suitability by the way
any breeze feels against your skin!

Post by T i m
So there is actually a wind speed sensor near your house? You couldn't
have local gusts funnelling because of the landscape?

I have no idea about that.

Post by T i m
And what if you wanted to see what the wind speeds were yesterday, last
month or last year?

Why on earth would I want that?

Post by T i m
How much involvement did you have putting it together?

None.

Post by T i m
I've been experimenting with a new (to me) ESP32 module, a Wemos ESP32
Lolin32 lite with with the thoughts to it being the 'brains' on my
anemometer because it has the option of battery power.
https://mischianti.org/esp32-wemos-lolin32-lite-high-resolution-pinout-and-specs/
I currently have a 3.7V 3700mAh LiPo battery and I'm running on it now
to measure the runtime. Hopefully it won't need to use the LiPo battery
much as I'm hoping to have it running from a solar charged 12V LA battery.
I've added a resistor potential divider and connected it to one of the
GPIO pins set as ADC and calibrated it against my DMM and so far I
predict a runtime of about 30 hours.
I bought two of the lite boards and I'm also configuring the second as a
general purpose sensor board. It's currently giving temperature, current
(up to 3.2A) and will soon have a hall effect magnetic sensor. There is
suggestion that there is a magnet on the last digit of our mechanical
gas meter and so potentially I could log the gas consumption.
I might use that to also monitor the charge / discharge current on the
anemometer unit (just for benchmarking).
So far it's all been straight configuration for sensors etc so I haven't
needed to call on Apd for his coding witchcraft. ;-)

Please report on progress - and post some video too!

[T i m]

On 07/05/2024 10:38, David Brooks wrote:

<snip>

Post by David Brooks

Post by T i m

Post by David Brooks
Here, right now, Siri says ....... "The wind's blowing from the North

And is it?

I can only guess

Quite.

Post by David Brooks
- you should be able to judge suitability by the way
any breeze feels against your skin!

You can, but that involves going outside and standing there for some
time to see how consistent it is.

'You can manage what you can measure' and you of all people should
understand that, given your obsession for information from others.

Post by David Brooks

Post by T i m
So there is actually a wind speed sensor near your house? You couldn't
have local gusts funnelling because of the landscape?

I have no idea about that.

Exactly.

Post by David Brooks

Post by T i m
And what if you wanted to see what the wind speeds were yesterday,
last month or last year?

Why on earth would I want that?

I'm not suggesting *you* would.

Post by David Brooks

Post by T i m
How much involvement did you have putting it together?

None.

Exactly (it's part of the interest / project / solution for me).

Post by David Brooks

Post by T i m
I've been experimenting with a new (to me) ESP32 module, a Wemos ESP32
Lolin32 lite with with the thoughts to it being the 'brains' on my
anemometer because it has the option of battery power.
https://mischianti.org/esp32-wemos-lolin32-lite-high-resolution-pinout-and-specs/
I currently have a 3.7V 3700mAh LiPo battery and I'm running on it now
to measure the runtime. Hopefully it won't need to use the LiPo
battery much as I'm hoping to have it running from a solar charged 12V
LA battery.
I've added a resistor potential divider and connected it to one of the
GPIO pins set as ADC and calibrated it against my DMM and so far I
predict a runtime of about 30 hours.
I bought two of the lite boards and I'm also configuring the second as
a general purpose sensor board. It's currently giving temperature,
current (up to 3.2A) and will soon have a hall effect magnetic sensor.
There is suggestion that there is a magnet on the last digit of our
mechanical gas meter and so potentially I could log the gas consumption.
I might use that to also monitor the charge / discharge current on the
anemometer unit (just for benchmarking).
So far it's all been straight configuration for sensors etc so I
haven't needed to call on Apd for his coding witchcraft. ;-)

Please report on progress -

Well the battery powered ESP32 has been running for over 24 hours now so
that facet is looking good.

And this is where using Home Assistant is so good. I create a means of
measuring say the voltage of a battery under test and can *easily*
monitor / log the output and even action things on different conditions.

Like previously, if I wanted to measure the working capacity of a lead
acid battery I would have to attach a voltmeter and discharge load and
log the battery voltage every half hour or so by hand. Set a reminder on
my phone or kitchen timer and write the voltage down on a bit of paper
and then create a graph from that. The 'energy' would be the area under
the curve.

Now I just clip on a small / portable 'gadget' and *everything* that is
going on is logged automagically for me.

Post by David Brooks
and post some video too!

All you will see is an anemometer spinning round and a desktop indicator
showing the result?

Cheers, T i m