Rivaclaw🏳️‍⚧️ΘΔ @renbymon@computerfairi.es

Jeez this took an age to get working but it's done!

A DS18B20 1-wire temperature probe connected to a RPi 3A+, monitoring the temperature of the water in the hot water tank (as best it can; it's just touching the outside of the tank).

Data collection and display is being done by Munin (thanks @darac for the suggestion!) node on the Pi, master on my home server.

@tryst I'm sorry what?? Why would anyone do that? It's something you make on the stove and then put under the grill for a few minutes if you want crunchy top.

@fatedfox Happy birthday!!! 💜​

TL;DR because I rambled a lot.

Some projects/guides use docker as if it were FlatPak or AppImage and that kinda grinds my gears. https://computerfairi.es/@renbymon/112852577845366039

@kootenay @garrwolfdog Oh corvid time? :>

@garrwolfdog Thank you :)

@garrwolfdog I want to eventually when I can brain properly for it; I want to set up four TV channels running from a server and being output into an old hotel CATV distribution board, and having each channel in its own docker container would be helpful for monitoring them.

@garrwolfdog That's how I've seen a lot of people using it for small projects, hence my aversion to it in small projects.

I've always seen it as one of those things that you have to know/be invested in learning before you use it in a production environment but some people are treating it like FlatPak/AppImage

@garrwolfdog I guess my point is that while I'm futsing around with my own little projects I know how to troubleshoot if it doesn't work. I've no idea how to do that on a docker container and I haven't yet found anything that explains it in a way I can understand, if it even is possible to troubleshoot like one would for a bare metal machine.

@garrwolfdog @garrwolfdog It turned out that the python code was pointing to a folder that didn't exist. Changing that code fixed the problem, but the docker image pulled the code directly from the GitHub so short of forking the project and making my own changes directly from there I wasn't able to find a way to change the files in the docker container