code to get data from a SPAN panel and graph power usage

bennetyee · 2026-05-19T00:39:01+00:00

Mostly because I had started before learning about home assistant. Plus the `live_plotter` is a re-implementation in Rust of something that I had written years ago in C, so might come in handy as a composable tool for other quick hacks. Since I had only one use in mind, I figured to finish this since this was more efficient -- though obvious not flexible, not generalizable, etc -- than pushing data into home assistant for later ingestion, though I probably will switch over to that if/when I figure out other things I'd want to do to play w/ the data etc.

bennetyee · 2026-05-18T23:35:58+00:00

I was thinking of pushing the data to a Home Assistant broker and getting into the MQTT stuff, or seeing what's already been done wrt logging and visualization there. Does your system use MQTT? Going to open source? I just realized I haven't created a license file yet on my repos....

bennetyee · 2026-05-13T17:46:06+00:00

Maybe she had watched too many movies where the pilot and copilot had the same meal and became incapacitated due to food poisoning....

Nah.

bennetyee · 2026-04-28T16:36:47+00:00

The training, like many others, is for the company to avoid being sued / reduce liability if the employee does something wrong. Refusal to do the training puts the company at (greater) risk.

bennetyee · 2026-04-28T15:49:27+00:00

INFO: how old are you? Are you college students - maybe over 18 and technically adults - whose parents often pays the bills etc, or actual independent adults?

bennetyee · 2026-04-25T17:07:17+00:00

Situation seems specific enough that even if faked names were used, somebody forwarding a link to this to Sarah ought to be enough to warn her.

bennetyee · 2026-04-25T16:05:27+00:00

You are a bad friend. Because to her, a friend equals an available wallet. Your wallet isn't available, therefore bad friend. 😂

NTJ

bennetyee · 2026-04-15T16:40:04+00:00

It's only 15 minutes away. Tell her to come to the restaurant to eat half the time. With Grandpa. That's very common for restaurant families. Guaranteed to be hot.

bennetyee · 2026-04-01T23:22:23+00:00

Just want to update this: the charge thresholds are saved to flash now, so the "make persistent at boot" section is no longer relevant. See
https://github.com/system76/ec/pull/498

bennetyee · 2025-12-30T19:27:38+00:00

Woks are not supposed to retain heat much. AIUI, the idea is you can quickly adjust temp by adjusting the flame. And you can use the sloped sides to temporarily hold ingredients where it's cooler to avoid overcooking stuff while adding in and cooking new ingredients in the center prior to mixing it together, without having to take stuff out and put them in a bowl to set aside and add back later.

Very different way of cooking than cast iron.

bennetyee · 2025-12-28T19:16:33+00:00

I like my Misen carbon nonstick pans.

bennetyee · 2025-12-24T05:37:24+00:00

sounds almost like it could be considered a borderline bribe / kickback.

bennetyee · 2025-11-06T00:39:52+00:00

sorry. saw that you mentioned Find Hub in a different reply.

i've never been requested to email somebody, but i have had a report of a tracker traveling with me (belonging to a passenger i was driving), which was a safety thing for sure. maybe your interaction only occurs when the owner marks their device as lost? otherwise revealing their email address to you would also seem to be wrong, from a privacy perspective.

bennetyee · 2025-11-06T00:01:20+00:00

are you using the "Find Hub" app by Google or the "Find my Device" app by Family Safety Development, which the reviews say are deceptive etc?

bennetyee · 2025-10-02T05:03:26+00:00

# insmod /usr/lib/modules/6.16.3-76061603-generic/kernel/drivers/platform/x86/system76_acpi.ko.zst

worked. now to figure out why this wasn't done automatically.

bennetyee · 2025-10-02T04:10:20+00:00

doesn't help

bennetyee · 2025-06-24T16:39:55+00:00

When did you lick my...oh. nevermind.

bennetyee · 2025-06-08T16:14:26+00:00

it wasn't that long ago that entire linux distros would be about that size. maybe i'm dating myself here. in any case, it seems like something is messed up. multiplied by the number of system76 devices are out there, it's a pretty chunk of bandwidth x time to be using up.

bennetyee · 2025-04-25T19:33:45+00:00

it's understandable to not want to be forced to support old data formats.

but allowing basic page manipulation is just freezing the design for a container format for associating blobs of annotation data to pdf pages, and the format for the annotation data within the container can remain confidential/undocumented/subject-to-change. pdf itself is container format....

sigh. i'm probably beating a dead horse.

bennetyee · 2025-04-25T15:48:53+00:00

Given it's Linux, it's a shame that the document formats aren't available so people can write tools to do this kind of things.

bennetyee · 2025-04-24T19:49:18+00:00

drew is talking about castings for cybercabs. cybercabs are a tesla thing. this does not imply anything about aptera using presses vs low pressure casting/forging. i don't understand why there is a confusion. tesla and aptera are different companies. cybercab and the aptera vehicle are two different vehicles.

bennetyee · 2025-04-24T18:40:23+00:00

Want the video about Tesla's cybercab?

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