It feels good to be stocked up again. I knew I was running low, but I didn't realize that I had 4 units which were completely built except that they lacked the Raspberry Pi. I thought those units were ready to ship!

I still did have the one #HestiaPi on my bench that I've been using to do testing of the upcoming v1.5 image that I could have cannibalized, but much better to just be properly stocked!

It's not every day that I order $300 worth of Raspberry Pi Zero 2 boards. 😅

People think these boards cost the MSRP of $15/each. The truth is one board is $25.82-$29.64 after tax and shipping. That's not with a power supply, SD card, case or anything. Just the board, and the higher side of that price range includes headers.

This is why I order in bulk. While it does nothing about the sales tax, it does help with shipping costs. I then pass those savings on to people who want to buy a #HestiaPi

I've been bustin' my hump for a couple weeks now, but I think I'm getting close to final testing.

Yeah, testing.

That's the part where we make sure everything works before we ship new code. I know, what an old-fashioned concept!

I'm super excited about this next release. New features after over 5 years. Try getting that from a corporation. Ha!

So, I have a controversial question: are ads tolerated on #fedi?

The context here is the I build and maintain open source thermostats and I want to get more people off #BigTech and #Google in particular.

I'd also like to support the people who support my mission. #help

Maybe I could give out a discount code and for every sale that uses it, I pay my collaborator a referral fee? Seems like everyone would win, except Google & Amazon, and I'm cool with that. Bezos has enough money & power.

I had an insane push this weekend to get #HestiaPi & #OpenHAB to be compatible with a heat pump HVAC system. I'm testing it by running LEDs through the relays to see when they flip on.

I have one prototype that I manually configured. I have the basics down: heating, cooling, ruining the fan, 2-stages for both heating and cooling.

Next up, boosting and tons of regression testing. I rewrote huge parts of many of the roles and made serious logic/flow changes.

I need sleep too!

We're getting close to releasing a maintenance update. No functional changes, but it will extend the security updates for another two years.

There's more testing to do, but hopefully that will go smoothly.

I hope to have another update out soon after that, which will be the same deal: no functional changes, but yet ANOTHER two years of security patches!

When I say long term support, I mean it!

#HestiaPi #thermostat #IoT #OpenHardware #electronics #OpenSource #FOSS