The security cameras aren’t getting a heavy workout of late, beyond dogs roaming from ‘next door’. Every now and then I’ll call them via the camera’s speaker capability, whereupon they run like hell. Hours of fun.
I’ve added a new feature to the blog’s sidebar: you can see the current indoor and outdoor temperatures. I wanted to write a WordPress plugin just to see how easy it was, and there you go… it was straightforward, even if the company I bought the sensors from have an appalling setup for retrieving the data.
When the simplest way of getting at the info was to do an HTTP POST with my phone’s ID and parse the response, you know you’ve gone badly wrong.