Local News Stories

Site www.little-sense.au Off-Line

Saturday, 28 September, 2024

Due to the failure of a Raspberry Pi that served out the www.little-sense.au site, the sky camera will not be available until further notice.

Loss of Internet access for www.lttle-sense.au

Monday, 02 September, 2024

During the early morning (00:45 local time), a red light was noticed on the local router, indicating that the connection to the Internet had been lost for at least one (1) hour. The Internet was still now at 0800 local time and a phone call to Aussie Broadband indicated that there was a major NBN fault and an SMS would be sent when the service was restored.

Service was restored at 18:30 local time.

Relocation of River Calculator

Friday, 30 August, 2024

The River Murray Trip Calculator has been removed from this site and reinstalled on the site of the River Murray Boat Owners Association (RMBOA). However, unlike on this site, the calculator is in the members-only area of the website.

www.little-sense.au Failure

Monday, 26 August, 2024

It was noticed that the Raspberry Pi running the www.little-sense.au website was losing Ethernet connectivity which prevented the updating of the Skycamera images and the Ground IR Temperature captioning.

At first, it appeared that it was a hardware problem as pulling out the Ethernet cable and re-inserting it caused the Ethernet to start working for a time. This was found not to be the case when the Raspberry Pi was swapped out for another but using the same SD card. The Ethernet failures continued.

The Raspberry Pi was shifted off the local switch in case it was a cable or switch problem, but the problem continued.

Searching the Internet found that this problem had occurred on other Raspberry Pi systems and the solution was to reset the Ethernet port settings using the nmcli command to reconfigure the port.

Re-Development of Raspberry Pi Network

Saturday, 15 June, 2024

The previous power supply used by the Raspberry Pis resulted in the Pi's annoyingly bringing up the lightning bolt on every Raspberry Pi, even though there were never any failures due to low supply voltage with these units or any other USB device powered by the power supply.

I decided to get rid of this annoyance by using an old 19V laptop power supply that is capable of providing 135W. It was connected to a series of switch mode power supplies which step the voltage down to +5.18V which allows for some voltage drop along the USB power cable.

After this power supply as tested, attached to the DIN Rail and powered up, it was found that some of the software, specifically the sky Camera did not work It was later found that the problem was the units booted at different rates and there was a race condition relating to the networked storage.
More work will be needed to ensure that the system comes up fully before the sensitive programs are started.

Local Calendar

NOTE: Public Holidays relevant to South Australia are relevant to this site. The green entries include Australian public holidays and Observance days. Public holidays generally provide a day off work (and increased penalty rates for those working on that day). Observance days celebrate remembrance, awareness and celebrations, but do not normally provide a day off work. It is also worth noting that South Australia has "partial public holidays" where increased penalty rates would apply. Examples of this are the nights of Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve where people are likely to celebrating with friends and family, so additional penalties are applied to recompense those that cannot due to work.

Other News & Events

Makerspace Adelaide is a community workshop with a variety of tools and equipment - from laser cutters and sewing machines to 3D printers and traditional hand tools.

Zonta is a leading global organisation empowering women worldwide though service and advocacy.
The Para District Area Club provides community support in the Salisbury, Playford and Tea Tree Gully areas.

PBA-FM is a community radio station providing entertainment, information and access programs to the local community broadcasting from the TWELVE25 Youth Enterprise Centre in Salisbury.

It is operated by Para Broadcasters Association Inc. as a not for profit enterprise. Formed in 1978, PBA-FM conducted a successful test transmission in April 1981 and a full licence was granted in November 1982 with broadcasting commencing in 1983.

The River Murray Boat Owners Association (RMBOA) is a group who enjoy the Murray for its beauty, wildlife, vegetation, recreational qualities and priceless value to our country.

Community is at the centre of the Para Hills Community Club’s mission, and they aim to be the leader of community involvement and engagement for the Para Hills area.