I’ve recently been using DSD FME to
decode Silke Communication’s FleetNet Network
radio traffic around me. After some configuration effort it’s working well,
but I realized one of the things I’ve really appreciated about the past decade
is the slow migration to asynchronous communications (email, messages, etc.)
instead of voice calls or in-person meetings that interrupt whatever I’m doing.
I don’t want to actually listen to the radio traffic, rather, I’d like to skim
it, preferably visually, after-the-fact to see if anything interesting
happened.
There are plenty of walkthroughs online about setting up FT8 on the DX-3000 with Windows but I didn’t find any for OS X. So, here we are. I’m using the USB interface.
Thirteen years ago I wrote a library called Hera to make expiring content on Zeus Traffic Managers easier. It was on PyPi
but never super popular and the maintainers of Hera
Workflow got in touch with
me about taking over the namespace. I don’t use the library anymore so it was
easy to give up the name. If you do need the library you can find it on
GitHub.
In this post I’ll set up the software needed to store data from openHAB
and display it on a dashboard. I’ll use a z-wave thermostat I have already set
up on my network, and I’ll add Grafana and InfluxDB.