The RPizeBox is great, but there are two main issues:
I’ve got a nice scrolling script and had to hack pylms to get it to cope with accents.
This meant uninstalling the pylms module and referencing it instead with
sys.path.append(‘/home/pi/PyLMS/’)
from pylms.server import Server # to talk to LMS server
from pylms.player import Player # to talk to LMS player
That meant I could hack away at the code and it would still work.
I kept trying to find a way to intialise the display on boot. I had little success. I even made a start/stop script at /etc/init.d/lms-display in the hope it would get the display restarting on boot, but no dice. In the end I found that
@reboot root /etc/init.d/lms-display start
in crontab did the job.
It was cold today so I bought a heating belt (made in NZ of all places). I was was looking in to making my arduino UNO in to a temperature controller and found loads of comments about how they can control pumps too. Pumps? I looked in to it and found this lovely quote about what they can be used for.
“(transfer) hot wort from the lauter tun to the kettle”
So that’s clear then.
I bought a brew belt today. It was 16°C in the warmest room in the house(!). A few hours later and my quince wine was up to temperature and bubbling nicely (and making a lovely fizz when you held your ear to the tub). I had to find a timer switch to switch it on and off because after a few hours it was creeping up over 26°C. You can also push the belt up and down, but a timer (that I had lying around) looked a better option until I can get the arduino going.