I converted my blog to zola!

Today, precisely one year ago, was the day was I last time in my previous job. For this anniversary I managed to convert my blog entirely from the Sapper based on Svelte to zola. I have written about zola a little bit in this post. Everything I touch on zola surprises me in a pos…

ModbusRTU for TouchBerry 10 pt.3

This post is a part of a series about the TouchBerry ModbusRTU autoflow issue and how have I resolved it. Other posts of the series can be found under the touchberry tag. Note that newer posts might contain more recent information. I've spent past few days fighting two things: he…

Upgrading wiringpi on Raspberry Pi 4

I have had a problem with the gpio command on Raspberry Pi 4. Checking it's version with gpio -v produced the following output: gpio version: 2.50 Copyright (c) 2012-2018 Gordon Henderson This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. For details type: gpio -warranty Raspber…

ModbusRTU for TouchBerry 10 pt.2

This post is a part of a series about the TouchBerry ModbusRTU autoflow issue and how have I resolved it. Other posts of the series can be found under the touchberry tag. Note that newer posts might contain more recent information. It is quite hard to do a lot of effective work i…

No autoflow for RS485 on TouchBerry 10?

This post is a part of a series about the TouchBerry ModbusRTU autoflow issue and how have I resolved it. Other posts of the series can be found under the touchberry tag. Note that newer posts might contain more recent information. With the access to the TouchBerry 10" model incl…

Cross-compiling vs cross-compiling

This topic is drives me for some time. Cross-compiling is actually a misnomer. Or and ambiguous term. Whatever. Basically, cross-compiling means at least two different things in different peoples minds. The first group think of cross-compiling as a process, after which an executa…

Using mbpoll as a CLI for Modbus

I have discovered a nice CLI tool called mbpoll than can be used for fast Modbus wiring validation via CLI. It is very handy for anything that has an Ethernet port for the ModbusTCP, including devices like Raspberry Pi based controllers industrial controllers. Additionally, if an…