2020-08-21

August 22, 2020•105 words

Managed to resume my GMail backups after a 4 year hiatus, using gmvault.

The author created a docker version, and I was able to resume where I left off.

Now I want to set this up for my wife as well, but I will have to use a separate container. Each container runs it's own set of daily and weekly cron jobs to backup the emails. If this works correctly, I should look at what they do so I could use that approach for my personal projects.

I am also taking Monday to Wednesday off for vacation, we are driving up to Collingwood this weekend.

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2020-08-17

August 18, 2020•142 words

In frustration, I updated the cron script to reboot the RPi Zero if it is unable to establish a connection to the main router. It is a little heavy-handed, but I was getting really frustrated that the baby monitor was not connected when we needed it. Perhaps I will find a better method of re-establishing the WiFi connection without rebooting the RPi Zero. UPDATE: 2020-08-21 Our network has stabilized since I added this hack, and the RPi Zero has not rebooted yet. Now that things has settled, I ...

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2020-08-22

August 23, 2020•304 words

Had to cancel our trip to Collingwood, our daugther was still not feeling well and travelling with a sick child is not ideal. We will try to do something when she feels better, hopefully that will happen before I have to go back to work. After I complained to my friend Peter that my electronics knowledge is not as good as I wanted, he asked if I wanted a copy of an electronics book he owns. I thought I recognized it, but I wasn't sure where I may have put it. So I decided to clean up some of th...

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