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Hopefully Helpful Hints // Mike J McGuire

No one was arguing whether the glass was half empty or whether the glass was half full, only that the glass was either too big for the requirement, or that the materials estimate for the wine was incomplete.

Month: December 2019

Written by Mike J McGuireDecember 9, 2019July 3, 2020

DETA Grid Connect Smart Switch and Home Assistant

I recently bought a DETA Grid Connect Smart Switch from Bunnings, with the plan being to integrate them with Home Assistant, using ESPHome, or other user-provided code. I actually didn’t use ESPHome, but rather pushed my own code/image to the device. The device uses an ESP8266 compatible chip, with a product code of TYWE3S. I’ve […]

Written by Mike J McGuireDecember 3, 2019September 2, 2020

Couldn’t start a Stolon PostgreSQL Kubernetes StatefulSet

I was troubleshooting a Stolon PostgreSQL deployment on a Kubernetes cluster recently – there’d been an outage on the cluster, and the stolon pods wouldn’t restart. Specifically, the keeper component would not start. Stolon uses sentinel nodes, proxy nodes and keeper nodes. The sentinels and proxies were starting, but the keepers were not. The keeper-0 […]

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