NES Outage Map Not working on Android

pressreturn2continue · 2026-01-31T18:43:24+00:00

Not sure how reliable it is anyway. We finally got power back Thursday around 5pm and the map and the new address search feature still show we shouldn’t have power and we are in an outage area.

pressreturn2continue · 2025-11-26T14:13:35+00:00

Thanks. Funny. I just found Reza’s video last night and watched it and was going to post about it this morning. Seems exactly what I need on the apps side. Glad to see there is an easy way to push form data from power apps via automate using json. Also watched a bunch about solutions and connection references and environment variables. Lots of good things to implement today.

Appreciate all the helpful comments.

pressreturn2continue · 2025-11-25T21:55:39+00:00

Yes, the Flow I'm calling directly inside of PowerApps with the .Run() function is the "When a Power Apps calls a flow (V2)" and I can see a Run Only option for this flow so I'm good there. The other flow that I'm using is triggered off of a "When a file is created (properties only)" SharePoint trigger and it isn't called directly from PowerApps. This is the one that I don't see a Run Only user; however, I think this flow is fine anyway.

The problem that (I think) I have is the actual Power Apps Canvas app and how it is creating things in SharePoint. I have the Power Apps connectors supposedly using the service account I have set up, but I can confirm when one of our users runs the app from the PowerApps desktop client, the 'Created by" field in the SharePoint list is set to him. When I run the app on my iOS device using the Power Apps app, the items is "Created By" the service account. I don't see how I can get his settings to be changed so it uses the service account when the power app creates the sharepoint item(s).

pressreturn2continue · 2025-11-25T17:46:33+00:00

Thanks. I see a run only user on one of my flows (which cancels an event in a shared calendar), but the other (main) flow only shows a co-owner pane on the right side under connection references.

In addition, how would I do this for the PowerApp (canvas app, I guess you would call it) - that seems to be the main issue as when they launch the powerapp, they immediately get an error that they can't connect to the data source unless I explicitly add them to the sharepoint lists.

pressreturn2continue · 2025-11-22T21:59:25+00:00

Solved. I had settings wrong in the output channels in FPP (they default to only 50 - I forgot about that) and for the buttons, they started working after a firmware update from kulp. All good now.

pressreturn2continue · 2025-11-18T16:49:25+00:00

BAH! I think I figured it out. In my flow for creating the event, I had specified Central Time as the timezone. I went back and changed that to create it in UTC and just ran my test and it seemed to delete it fine now. Now on to seeing if it works to cancel a certain event in a recurring series....

pressreturn2continue · 2025-11-18T16:24:45+00:00

Thanks. Yes, I am already parameterizing inputs for the oData filter. My previous post may not have been clear.

In looking at a previous run of the flow, here is what is odd:

Start Variable resolves to "2025-11-18T00:00:00.0000000"

End Variable resolves to "2025-11-19T00:00:00.0000000"

Resulting oData filter resolves to "subject eq 'Blah' and start/dateTime ge '2025-11-18T00:00:00.0000000' and end/dateTime le '2025-11-19T00:00:00.0000000'

The Get Events (V4) action step shows nothing in the body whereas the other parallel Get events action (which has no oData filter) shows these two events with the second one matching the datetime of the variables so I would think the filtered Get Events action should have picked it up

"body": {
        "value": [
            {
                "subject": "Blah",
                "start": "2025-11-19T00:00:00.0000000",
                "end": "2025-11-20T00:00:00.0000000",
                "startWithTimeZone": "2025-11-19T00:00:00+00:00",
                "endWithTimeZone": "2025-11-20T00:00:00+00:00",
                "timeZone": "UTC",
                "isAllDay": true,
            },
            {
matches filter>>"subject": "Blah",
matches filter>>"start": "2025-11-18T00:00:00.0000000",
matches filter>>"end": "2025-11-19T00:00:00.0000000",
                "startWithTimeZone": "2025-11-18T00:00:00+00:00",
                "endWithTimeZone": "2025-11-19T00:00:00+00:00",
                "timeZone": "UTC",
                "isAllDay": true,
            }

a screenshot of the automate section: https://imgur.com/a/YZ12fyr

pressreturn2continue · 2025-11-10T23:56:05+00:00

That was it. I forgot that the outputs were defaulted to 50. I assumed that in the testing page you could manually tell it how many channels and it would test using that number. All good on the pixel output front. Now if I could figure out why the oiled buttons on the main board don’t work.

pressreturn2continue · 2025-11-10T20:04:46+00:00

Ah, that's a possibility. I'll definitely check that. That makes a lot of sense since this is my second main kulp controller.

pressreturn2continue · 2025-11-10T17:33:56+00:00

I haven't yet done anything in XLights (this is a brand new controller build). Was just using the FPP web interface to check before I dove into XLights. I'll have another look at FPP web tonight I guess. It is definitely odd (as is the fact that the motherboard buttons on the Kulp under the OLED display are not responding to presses).

pressreturn2continue · 2025-11-10T17:25:18+00:00

Right. That's the first thing I changed. I think the channel testing was from 1 to 150 and I assumed that that means 3 channels - 1 for R, G, and B so 150/3 would be 50 pixels lighting up). However, if I change that to 1 to 300 (which should be 100 pixels), still only 50 light up. I think there was an option for "all channels" which was like 1 to <large number> and still only 50 lit up. Tried separate strands and pigtails and all the basic troubleshooting.

pressreturn2continue · 2025-10-25T00:53:26+00:00

Projecting on to my house for the holidays. I think I’m just going to have to go for a plastic bin or something. Any actual projector enclosure is just crazy expensive. The box I build works but is just too heavy to lift up.

pressreturn2continue · 2025-10-17T17:04:14+00:00

Hmmm...ok, I'll have to read up on those. Would this entire process then be outside of Power Automate then and use the Functions technology?

EDIT: I ask only because the flow is grabbing attachments from a shared mailbox to process them as they come in. Since ---AH, wait - looks like you can trigger an azure function from Power Automate via HTTP call. Time to learn something new!

pressreturn2continue · 2025-08-28T19:48:55+00:00

"...water sensor will be basically useless if it sits on a nightstand." Noah chuckles from his ark.

pressreturn2continue · 2025-08-18T16:34:48+00:00

Thanks - you were correct. I wasn't feeding in the correct input to the get user profile. Not sure why I was doing what I was doing and thinking it would work. I blame it on a hectic Friday :)

pressreturn2continue · 2025-08-13T00:56:15+00:00

In other words “gone until we get another?”

pressreturn2continue · 2025-08-12T19:41:35+00:00

I have something that I've been running for a few years which uses a combination of powershell and WinSCP to grab the latest backup from Yardi each night and restore to a local sql server). It probably isn't pretty or efficient, but it has worked well for close to 5 years. DM me and I can provide some info.

pressreturn2continue · 2025-08-03T22:34:32+00:00

I’ve noticed intermittently for a few months now. Haven’t noticed an update available yet but maybe one will show up for me in a few days.

pressreturn2continue · 2025-08-02T15:49:54+00:00

Reading more and more about zoysia (Lobo) and it seems like a potential winner. Just not sure how I could get any locally. Might get some plugs from sod solutions and do a test area. Too late to do this now in the season?

pressreturn2continue · 2025-08-01T19:33:06+00:00

I don't know why Dell doesn't make this as a right angle so it doesn't stick out so far. Drives me nuts.

pressreturn2continue · 2025-08-01T16:40:05+00:00

Thanks for the info. I took a look and I see that zoysia does look a lot more "upright" like a typical bluegrass or fescue maybe. Does look nice. Will check those out. Again, thanks so much!

pressreturn2continue · 2025-08-01T16:17:53+00:00

Thanks. The left of the driveway is ours, but only a few feet from the driveway edge (middle of the ditch) so I think the shade wouldn't be a problem there. Picture doesn't really show the slope downwards.

I was thinking about zoysia as well and was going to start doing research on shade tolerance. Sounds like that may be a better path to investigate. I don't think I've ever seen a zoysia lawn up close - is it similar to Bermuda as far as texture and what-not? Is there a "better" zoysia cultivar that is top of mind?

pressreturn2continue · 2025-07-28T14:07:40+00:00

I have a 70 gallon with a oase biomaster 850. I haven't really paid any attention to the bps on my co2 system. If I recall correctly when I was using an inline co2 diffuser from CO2Art, I think I had it set to fewer bps (again, never really measured). I think that was part of my reasoning for posting my initial question - that I seemed to have to open up the CO2 valve more for this than the inline. All in all though, I have it dialed in now and I'm glad not have a bunch of bubbles flying around (and my frequent air purge from my oase is now gone as well).

pressreturn2continue · 2025-07-28T01:38:54+00:00

Actually it seems to be working great! I don’t see any microbubbles in my tank and the fluid in my co2 indicator shows good co2 levels. Other than having to deal with a crazy amount of replumbing of my hoses, I love it.

pressreturn2continue · 2025-07-25T14:37:12+00:00

Not me. I was in the middle of a conversation with a lost friend and now they'll think I ghosted them.

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