Moving

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So just as a heads up to any one who wants to contact me.. I am in the process of moving to San Josè, CA.

I will probably be hard to reach for the next few weeks and slow to respond. I will try my best to reach out whenever ...

in Blog · Mon 07 September 2015

ZPriddy Alexa Projects

// under Echo SmartThings Nest

I am happy to say that I am finally rolling out the free public service of my Alexa Projects!



After about a month of beta testers I am finally opening up the public link to my Alexa Projects! This project allows users to link their Nest account or SmartThings home ...

in Projects · Sun 16 August 2015

EchoPy - Amazon Echo Hello World Demo In Python

// under Echo Python

I have been getting a few requests for my EchoPy Hello World demo to get posted on my GitHub because the complexity of the EchoPyNest and EchoPySmartThings is a little much to learn how to work with the Amazon Echo.

This Hello World demo is a clone of the demo ...

in Projects · Wed 29 July 2015

Beta Testing Amazon Echo With SmartThings

// under Echo SmartThings

Today I finally started a public rollout of my Amazon Echo and SmartThings integration. I am happy to say that it is currently running very smoothly!



I have moved this out of my home server and into a VPS that is publicly available. I decided to go with a limited ...

in Projects · Thu 16 July 2015

New Website

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So I decided to make a new website... I got sick of having to update wordpress all the time and decided to go with a solution that would allow be to update files from my Dropbox folder and have some custom scripts to push updates out to the public site ...

in Blog · Thu 16 July 2015

Alexa and SmartThings

// under Echo SmartThings Python

I have been working towards getting the Amazon Echo to play friendly with SmartThings(Mostly because I am heavily invested in SmartThings…)

This is a teaser of the progress that I have made.. Not too much more to go.. I hope to have it posted to GitHub this week.

in Projects · Sun 12 July 2015

EchoNestPy - Alexa meet Nest via Python

// under Echo Nest Python

TL;DR

EchoNestPy is a python based API server running on flask. It allows the Amazon Echo to talk to the server and then the server will talk to your Nest allowing you to control it. This version is setup to allow multiple Amazon Echo users to share the same ...

in Projects · Fri 10 July 2015

Cox Issues.. And my workaround..

// under Python

So lately I have been having some issues with Cox and my internet.. For some reason they keep putting my modem in a maintenance down state and they don’t bring it back up..   I have various logs and what not from the modem and the monitoring of my network ...

in Projects · Sat 20 June 2015

Python Nest Data Logger

// under Nest Python

A while ago I got a Nest Thermostat and it was fantastic! However living in Arizona the heat of the summer was just about to come around… And what it did. The heat of my servers in the office kept tripping the nest to run more. Something I wasn’t ...

in Projects · Tue 12 May 2015

Activate MATLAB without a network card

// under Matlab Ubuntu

I recently had a problem when I was trying to activate MATLAB on my laptop.. The problem was that matlab requires a network card eth0 or eth1 with a mac address that it ties the license to.

The way that I solved this problem when I was installing matlab was ...

in Blog · Sat 15 February 2014