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• make sure to select update and install 3rd party drivers during install

• Installed 3rd party nvidia driver

  Drivers > 3rd party > enabled

• installed chrome

• installed sublime text

• install nvm

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Once a live outtage (defined as a serious issue that is impacting a large number of our users) is reported:

1. A call out should occur in Techy Chat to ensure that the largest number of people possible are aware.

2. If there are specific services struggling use (insert application / service ownership spreadsheet) to determine ownership and call in the right people.

3. Always try to involve an operations team member via the Platform Operations room

4. A First Responder is nominated/steps up in techy chat

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New collaboration tools

Hello everyone. I am happy to announce that we are now beginning the full roll out of a new set of collaboration tools that will finally put everyone across all Infinitas companies in a position to be able to easily communicate and collaborate with everyone else, no matter where they are located.

Given we are a company spread over many locations, and with with almost all staff taking time each week to work from home, it is crucial that our tools follow us wherever we go to stay productive. I feel it is also important that these tools should encourage informal and as needed 1-1 and group conversations, like a face to face conversation, instead of formal and time draining conversations over email where the cc list slowly expands over time.

To make this happen, we are now rolling out two new tools - Slack and Zoom.

Slack

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tech-standards

Discuss here on how to adopt new technology standards w/ examples

Current Standards

View the Current Standards.

Process

Depending on the impact of the technology on production or team productivity, we can have:

1. small to no impact

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This is the setup I am using to publish events for my Brink Flair 300 heat recovery unit. I have a Raspberry Pi 3, with an RS485>USB, connected to the 2 & 3 pin of the X15 input of the HRU. The flow in Node-Red talks locally to the device via modbus, and then connects to an mqtt server that is used for further connection to Home Assistant, this appears to be the most robust solution.

I used this USB stick: Rpi RS485 USB, but I think any of them will work. You do not need to buy the super expensive 'digital adapter' and the app, and with this setup you also do not need the super expensive RF bridge and connectors (though will likely want some physical alternative to this setup to turn it on / off if needed).

It currently provides temperature, set fan speed, actual fan speed, binary sensors for max, medium

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#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""
Scan a network share for movies and TV shows, build a transcode queue,
and process them for offline viewing (720p, English audio, stereo AAC).

Movies are listed as individual video files.
TV shows are listed as folders — selecting one queues all episodes inside it.
"""

import argparse