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@Route246 - sorry for not getting back sooner, I've been working on this, and there's always "one more thing" to add/change, and a bunch of the data I record needs a 24 hour cycle, and I get pulled away by other things. Then after I see the 24 hour data, I see changes to the report format that I want, and/or quirks in the data to fix, then another 24 hours.... I was planning on a fuller update ...soon 
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At any rate, for email, I have a gmail account that I use only for this IOT stuff. I forget the exact process (I set it up ~ 5 years ago), but you need to create a 'device' password (that might not be their terminology) for the account, to allow a device like this (that isn't running a full OS) to send emails.
As far as email set up, does this help?
SMTP Host Server: smtp.gmail.com
SMTP Port: 465
This is stuff I just got from the web 5 years ago, and AI used the same setup. I don't pretend to understand much of it at all.
For backups, I just back up with my other files, I should also copy it to my google drive so I have it offsite. Well actually, my chat sessions are essentially an offsite backup as well. I briefly looked into github, and it seems there is quite the learning curve.
You need to understand, I'm definitely not a CS/IT type, I did electrical engineering in my career. And while programming was a big part of much of my career, it wasn't CS level stuff, it was instrument controls, and measurement, so I don't have a traditional coding background. And there may be a year or more between projects like this, so anything I do learn, I forget pretty quickly!
But I have a decent understanding of hardware, and the limitations of these devices, and how to define a reasonable data structure for a report, what variables I'll need and such. And I know enough to be able to communicate what I need to AI.
So AI has been a really big help for me. I'm not bogged down by trying to remember all the specifics of an snprintf statement, or whether I need a ",", ";", or "":" for some syntax.
When I have time, I'll elaborate on some of the 2 steps forward 3 steps back I was taking with AI for a while. It got pretty weird (who knew that AI would 'hallucinate' an answer - not me!). I'm back on track now it seems, partly I'm learning the quirks of AI strengths/weaknesses (which are often the opposite of what I'd expect), and I think either the AI engine has improved a lot in the past few weeks, or I'm just that much better at giving instructions in the right way to get the results I want. Or both.
.At any rate, for email, I have a gmail account that I use only for this IOT stuff. I forget the exact process (I set it up ~ 5 years ago), but you need to create a 'device' password (that might not be their terminology) for the account, to allow a device like this (that isn't running a full OS) to send emails.
As far as email set up, does this help?
SMTP Host Server: smtp.gmail.com
SMTP Port: 465
This is stuff I just got from the web 5 years ago, and AI used the same setup. I don't pretend to understand much of it at all.
For backups, I just back up with my other files, I should also copy it to my google drive so I have it offsite. Well actually, my chat sessions are essentially an offsite backup as well. I briefly looked into github, and it seems there is quite the learning curve.
You need to understand, I'm definitely not a CS/IT type, I did electrical engineering in my career. And while programming was a big part of much of my career, it wasn't CS level stuff, it was instrument controls, and measurement, so I don't have a traditional coding background. And there may be a year or more between projects like this, so anything I do learn, I forget pretty quickly!
But I have a decent understanding of hardware, and the limitations of these devices, and how to define a reasonable data structure for a report, what variables I'll need and such. And I know enough to be able to communicate what I need to AI.
So AI has been a really big help for me. I'm not bogged down by trying to remember all the specifics of an snprintf statement, or whether I need a ",", ";", or "":" for some syntax.
When I have time, I'll elaborate on some of the 2 steps forward 3 steps back I was taking with AI for a while. It got pretty weird (who knew that AI would 'hallucinate' an answer - not me!). I'm back on track now it seems, partly I'm learning the quirks of AI strengths/weaknesses (which are often the opposite of what I'd expect), and I think either the AI engine has improved a lot in the past few weeks, or I'm just that much better at giving instructions in the right way to get the results I want. Or both.
