Thought I’d post a quick progress report on the aquaponics setup as the build pretty much complete and the growing has commenced.

A few weeks ago, a friend of mine and I were sharing YouTube videos around water harvesting, hydro electricity generation and the like.

weather station control unit weather station sensor pole A while ago I bought one of the Maplins weather stations, just for fun really no plans with it.

I wrote a post a while ago covering the use of Monit to monitor services running and the use case I covered was to ensure these services restarted on failure.

Something I’ve been meaning to do for a while is look into the possibility of using 2 factor authentication, or 2FA, with SSH connections.

A valuable tool I have been using for many years is etckeeper, it works by essentially turning your /etc directory into a git repository.

WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED

The recent release of the Raspberry Pi 2 uses a newer version of the ARM architecture spec, the ARM Cortex-A7 uses ARMv7 whereas the previous model ARM11 uses ARMv6.

Monit is an application I’ve been meaning to setup for a while, I was first made aware of it from a chap I had the pleasure of talking to at OggCamp this year, he seemed to use it to the n’th degree to monitor files and services within docker containers to ensure a development environment was as it should be.