Re: [PLUG] Does an Open Source Thermostat exist?

2022-07-14 Thread Larry Brigman
There are plenty of projects out there for thermostats. Here is one that I found using "DIY Nest thermostat" https://www.stuff.tv/features/how-build-homemade-nest-thermostat/ On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 2:22 PM Paul Heinlein wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jul 2022, Frank Filz wrote: > > > Program a single

Re: [PLUG] Does an Open Source Thermostat exist?

2022-07-14 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Thu, 14 Jul 2022, Frank Filz wrote: Program a single preferred temperature (the thermostat won't let us set heat to and cool to temperatures closer than 3 degrees - I understand that is necessary to keep the system from over heating so it has to turn on air conditioning only to over cool,

Re: [PLUG] Formating microSD card for VFAT

2022-07-14 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 14 Jul 2022, Russell Senior wrote: I tend to let the device (your camera in this case) do the formatting for maximum compatibility. Devices tend not to follow the Robustness Principle[1], but Linux does. Linux isn't going to know what quirks the limited implementation on the camera

Re: [PLUG] Formating microSD card for VFAT

2022-07-14 Thread Russell Senior
I tend to let the device (your camera in this case) do the formatting for maximum compatibility. Devices tend not to follow the Robustness Principle[1], but Linux does. Linux isn't going to know what quirks the limited implementation on the camera might have or how to satisfy them, but it is

Re: [PLUG] Formating microSD card for VFAT

2022-07-14 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 14 Jul 2022, Rich Shepard wrote: So it is formated fat32 for win95. Do I need to reformat it for vfat? I found a stack exchange thread suggesting that win95 relaxed FAT file name restrictions so the microSD is properly formatted. Rich

Re: [PLUG] Formating microSD card for VFAT

2022-07-14 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 14 Jul 2022, Robert Citek wrote: That's odd. For comparison, this is what lsblk outputs before and after I insert a USB stick: Here, with the microSD in a USB adapter, and looking at the disk size I find: sdg 8:96 1 29.7G 0 disk └─sdg1 8:97 1 29.7G 0 part and cfdisk

Re: [PLUG] Formating microSD card for VFAT

2022-07-14 Thread Robert Citek
On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 11:18 AM Rich Shepard wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jul 2022, Tomas Kuchta wrote: > > > What does fdisk -l and/or lsblk tells you? > > Tomas, > > fdisk -l didn't see it at all. > That's odd. For comparison, this is what lsblk outputs before and after I insert a USB stick: #

Re: [PLUG] Formating microSD card for VFAT

2022-07-14 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 14 Jul 2022, Tomas Kuchta wrote: What does fdisk -l and/or lsblk tells you? Tomas, fdisk -l didn't see it at all. You should be able to format the thing in the camera anyway. It does not have that capability. The camera is a cube about 2.3 cm per side. See

Re: [PLUG] Formating microSD card for VFAT

2022-07-14 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Thu, Jul 14, 2022, 12:19 Rich Shepard wrote: > I've not before needed to format an SD card (of any size) in the computer. > Now I have a couple of SunDisk 32G microSD cards for the Sir Gawain > mini-camera that need formatting. > > I put the microSD card in an SD adapter, and the latter in a

[PLUG] Formating microSD card for VFAT

2022-07-14 Thread Rich Shepard
I've not before needed to format an SD card (of any size) in the computer. Now I have a couple of SunDisk 32G microSD cards for the Sir Gawain mini-camera that need formatting. I put the microSD card in an SD adapter, and the latter in a USB holder inserted in a desktop USB port. Running 'tail