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When building WordPress themes, there is often a need to use a featured thumbnail, or image value from ACF; as either a background image or as a <img> tag. This snippet below is something I use frequently, hopefully this will be as benefit for you too. <?php //Custom image sizes - Add these to your ...

I’ve recently purchased a few cheap DHT22 temperature sensors from Amazon. They work great and use Python to display the data from the sensors. I found I required a way to log the data, so I though why not make this a project!? I have created a simple Web Interface to view logged data: https://github.com/ryanfitton/rpi-temperature-monitor-logging-interface. ...

I’ve been using a few Raspberry Pi Zeros for a while, and whilst they’re great, small, cheap boards they have always lacked a dedicated Ethernet port. I could always attach a USB to Ethernet dongle, which I have done in the past but then it adds more bulk and cost – so I may as ...

I have published this blog post to help anyone having issues installing Home Assistant (and Docker) in an LXC container running on Ubuntu. When I was installing Home Assistant on my own hardware, I could not find any straight-forward guides detailing how to do this, and Home Assistant’s own documentation does not help with installing ...

The post displays hows to use WordPress Ajax functions to display a field’s value; and automatically refresh the field every 5 seconds. This example also includes examples of how to send an Ajax post to update the field. In this example, each click oft the ‘submit’ button will increase the numerical value stored in the ...