Blog – Owain Lloyd

Smart Heating (part 2)

In Part 1 I created a system that replicated my existing heating system but run via my Domoticz. This delivered[…]

There have been many new ‘smart’ thermostats released recently. Not to be outdone I wanted to see just how hard[…]

Using EDA techniques to investigate the reliability of my DIY Temperature, Humidity and light level sensors. If you wish to[…]

Taking the raw data processing capabilities of Hadoop and seamlessly integrating that into an ipython notebook to allow some exploratory[…]

It doesn’t come as a surprise that hadoop is not supported on the raspberry pi and doesn’t have native libraries[…]

Owain Lloyd is Business Intelligence and Analytics professional and data evangelist who has spent the vast majority of his life[…]

As I started exploring some more datasets outside of my home automation logs I was finding myself in need of[…]

I have quite a few Raspberry Pis – namely my Hadoop cluster and my home automation server. But as investigate[…]

Wow its cold and the Shogun seats are not the most comfortable for sleeping in. Sleeping bag worked ok but[…]

Ok so wake up in Poitiers and its proper freezing. Daily checks take a bit longer than planned but no[…]