beestat

On the way to sensor data!

First of all, I apologize for missing my scheduled post two weeks ago. I got busy at work and mostly just forgot about all this.

Second, and more importantly, I wanted to share a quick update...

Rewriting the Aggregate Runtime Card

If you read the post from two weeks ago you might know that I'm reworking a good chunk of the backend t...

Data management

When I started beestat I had no real idea how much data storage I would need. I spun up a cheap server, added 50GB of storage and called it a day. I started to get worried when the database hit 30G...

Where does all the money go?

Something that's very important to me when developing beestat is transparency. I have no super secret formula to protect and all this is made possible because I have some awesome users. So keeping ...

Bugs bugs bugs

See those errors? Those are bad.

One of the things I try to focus a lot on with beestat is making the software robust. Every time someone encounters an error they are more and more likely to ...

What's done and what's next...

A couple months ago I sent out an email announcing the new Home Comparisons feature and promising a bunch of new stuff. I thought it was time I reviewed that list and evaluated where everything sta...

A quick update!

I missed my last scheduled bi-weekly post and wanted to give everyone a brief update on where things are. Since my last release I have fallen back a bit and entered more of a maintenance mode. I've...

Creating the beestat demo

Something that's always bothered me in the tech industry is that there are very few products with actual live demos. Sometimes you get some crappy version of one, but mostly you just get outdated s...

Beestat is now open source!

Main application: https://github.com/beestat/app
Other beestat repositories: 2019-05-28 14:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post

Nest support postponed indefinitely

More info here: https://nest.com/whats-happening/

Nest support has always been something I've been interested in with...

Room sensor giveaway winner!

Randomly selected from all active patrons, the winner of ecobee room sensor two-pack is Ray M. I'll be reaching out to you to coordinate shipping. Congratulations!

Special thanks to everyone ...

Get it on Google Play

That's right, beestat is now an app! I would love it if you would give it an install and leave a rev...

Interested in early access to the beestat source code?

See here:  https://github.com/ziebelje/beestat-issues/issues/100 

Looking for a few use...

Making sure beestat isn't broken (redux)

Original Post:  https://www.patreon.com/posts/23245016 

Back in December I talked about how I had buil...

Home Comparisons are live!

Well, technically they were live last Thursday, but anyways go check it out!

Patch Notes

Home Comparisons coming next week!

I was hoping to push the Home Comparisons update last week but some travel fatigue got the best of me. At this point the update is pretty stable but I'm not happy with the level of polish. I need o...

What is Gap-Fill?

Gap-Fill is an on-by-default just-now-named feature that has existed in beestat since day 1. A few people have noticed some discrepancies when comparing the Aggregate Runtime chart to their ecobee ...

Welcome to Home Comparisons!

Home Comparisons are nearing feature-complete and I'm incredibly excited at what this is going to offer. When this update goes live, all beestat users will have access to some incredibly powerful t...

Home Comparisons - Early Access (Unstable)

Hello!

As part of my way of thanking those of you who go above and beyond with a $5/mo pledge, I provide early access to new features when I feel like they are just barely good enough and pro...

Why things sometimes take a long time

Take a good look at this screenshot. How long do you think it would take to put that together? Maybe 15 minutes, tops...right?

2019-02-19 15:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post

Curves and bars and air filters

Aggregate Runtime - Curves?

Every now and then I pull  up my Aggregate Runtime chart and flip a switch just to have a little fun. That switch does this:

2019-02-05 15:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post

Posting schedule update

As beestat grows and adds users I'm finding that the amount of feedback and bug reports are slowly increasing. These are good things, but I have limited time and if I'm responding to feedback I'm n...

Upgrade complete; beestat is now version 1.22

Patch notes 

I had enough assorted changes that I decided to get these things sent live now as opposed ...

Handling errors a little bit better

Up until now the way I've handled errors was to simply let the application break, log the error, and do nothing. This wasn't really ideal, but errors have been pretty uncommon (according to my logs...

Reworking temperature profile generation

After a couple weeks of planning (and maybe a little bit of stalling), I finally sat down last weekend and started writing the algorithm that generates all the scores I talked about when I built th...

Changes to setpoint

Just wanted to make a quick announcement that the setpoint series is changing from a shaded gray area to one or two dotted lines. I get numerous questions about this and I agree that it was never t...

Getting back into the groove with the beestat API

After a long holiday and some much-needed time off from work I've found it to be somewhat difficult to get back into the groove. To help with that, I've been picking up some small/easy/fun tasks to...

What an amazing two months!

First of all, thank you to everyone who has partnered with me to make beestat happen! November and December have been incredible in terms of new supporters:

November 2018 summary: + $14 in p...