Arduino for heating system thermostat and garden irrigation timer

By Lux, on November 28th, 2015 Arduino

This is my Arduino project for home heating system thermostat and garden irrigation timer.
The project was developed just for fun: I had no previous knowledge of electronics; and the code is awful, being hacked from time to time with no particular design in mind. But it’s fun, most of the time it works
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Arduino: how I use it

By Lux, on November 22nd, 2015 Arduino

I’m using Arduino for some time now to automate the heating system and the garden irrigation system.

Having a Linux box installed near my Arduino in my “workroom/lost time office”, I find much more convenient to interface to the Arduino from the Linux computer itself, than connecting a PC and using the usual IDE.

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Recover saved wifi passwords after changing wireless adapter

By Lux, on November 9th, 2015 Windows

I changed the WiFi NIC in my notebook. After that I discovered that the new NIC did not have access to the saved WiFi secrets that where saved prior to chaning it.

I ran a well known utility from NirSoft, wirelesskeyview. Thank you again, Nir.
The utility confirmed what was easy to argue, that
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