Articles & field notes.
UniFi, three years later: the network became a home lab
A follow-up to my 2023 UniFi post: how Network, Protect, Access, and Drive now fit together across my home lab.
From weather data to gate controls: what I’ve been building
My recent programming work connects the things I enjoy: weather observations, home automation, and reusable .NET libraries. Here’s a look at four projects I’ve been updating. Redfield Weather: a new Blazor dashboard My personal weather station uses a Davis Vantage Pro2 and Davis AirLink. The Redfield Weather repository now describes a .NET 10 Blazor WebAssembly…
UniFi
I have gone all in with UniFi. UniFi products are what I use for myself and what I recommend to my customers. I have replaced all my networking equipment, Ring Doorbells, security cameras, land line phone, and even the lights in my office with UniFi. I am going to discuss what I like and what…
GitHub Projects
I haven’t posted in a while, so I thought it would be good to update what I have been up to. I have been working on a lot of projects that I hope help the community. I have released two nuget packages and one npm package. The source code to all this and more can…
Redfield Weather Code now on GitHub
My code for Redfield Weather is now available on GitHub https://github.com/erenken/redfieldweather I had to move my secure connection strings out of the web.config and app.config files before I could post this online. I decided to try Azure Key Vault as I am already hosting my site on Azure. I have to say this was really easy…
Redfield Weather Updated
I have been working really hard on my updated weather website for the last month. It is totally new from the ground up. I will be adding more features so please check it out. You can view the site at www.redfieldweather.com I have replaced the old Weather Flash ASP page that took data from Virtual…
Lots Happening
I just wanted to write an update on some of the projects I have listed on my site. Redfield Weather I am in the process of re-writing the site. I am going to try an AngularJS application for this. The site is currently down because my web provider has been so unreliable lately. I am…
Redfield Weather Code Now on Codeplex
I have published the code for my weather website on Codeplex. This is my first project on Codeplex. I hope to get a lot of great feedback and maybe even some people will want to use the code for the base for their own weather website. The code includes all the ASPX and the supporting…
Weather Spotter
I took a basic weather spotter class in Edwardsburg, MI on March 31st. I want to take the advanced training next year. If you are interested in spotter training you should contact your local Warning Coordination Meteorologist. For my area you can get more information about Skywarn at the Northern Indiana NWS Skywarn Information website.…
Microsoft Transparency
So I tweeted this late last night (3/2/2011) I have gotten many response asking me WTF I am talking about. There was no way I could respond in 140 characters so I thought I would create a blog post. Partly because it was time to post something else to my blog and also because I…