Fix typos/missing info in the latest article
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		| @@ -30,11 +30,11 @@ battery; i had to install the station near a mains socket, which is in a place i | ||||
| providing less accurate temperature readings.  It also takes away a precious wall socket, of which | ||||
| i have only two outside. | ||||
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| I got a little stuck in an X-Y problem, and started looking for another solution, based on a | ||||
| Prometheus Push Gateway.  While browsing documentation and generally hanging around the Interwebz, | ||||
| i stumbled upon the Home Assistant project (which is on my ToDo list for a looong time).  Without | ||||
| hesitating, i quickly backed up the SD card of my Raspberry Pi and installed Hassio on it.  I | ||||
| never looked back since. | ||||
| I got a little stuck in an `X-Y problem <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem>`_, and started | ||||
| looking for another solution, based on a Prometheus Push Gateway.  While browsing documentation | ||||
| and generally hanging around the Interwebz, i stumbled upon the Home Assistant project (which was | ||||
| on my ToDo list for a looong time anyway).  Without hesitating, i quickly backed up the SD card of | ||||
| my Raspberry Pi and installed Hassio on it.  I never looked back since. | ||||
|  | ||||
| With Home Assistant installed and configured, i installed and configured the Mosquitto add-on and | ||||
| started tinkering with my ESP boards. | ||||
| @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ they don’t do that if it’s raining, and since my smartphone rebooted for som | ||||
| delivery guy could not reach me and left; he will try to deliver the package again on Monday.  All | ||||
| this happened because i don’t have a doorbell. | ||||
|  | ||||
| So while at it, i quicly installed a push button on our gate, led the wire to my office (a good 5 | ||||
| So while at it, i quickly installed a push button on our gate, led the wire to my office (a good 5 | ||||
| meters or so), and did some more soldering: | ||||
|  | ||||
| - Connect the GND pin of the ESP board to D4 through a 10kΩ resistor | ||||
| @@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ Now guess what the unique ID of the device will be.  I’ll wait… | ||||
| Was your answer “the MAC address of the ESP board’s WiFi chip”?  Yeah, mine too.  Except it will | ||||
| be ``000000000000``.  If you want to install one station in your house, that’s not a big deal. | ||||
| But i want one outside, one in my office, in the kitchen, the bedroom, bathroom, and so one. | ||||
| Having the same unique ID makes it not-so-unique in this case.  So I dag deeper in the code of ``HADevice``. | ||||
| Having the same unique ID makes it not-so-unique in this case.  So I dug deeper in the code of ``HADevice``. | ||||
|  | ||||
| It has the following constructors: | ||||
|  | ||||
| @@ -254,10 +254,9 @@ It has the following constructors: | ||||
| Meanwhile, the ``WiFi.macAddress(mac)`` line calls a function that *gets* the MAC address of the | ||||
| WiFi chip, and stores the bytes in the ``mac`` array. | ||||
|  | ||||
| So what happens?  How does the unique ID become a string of zeroes? | ||||
|  | ||||
| The example code calls the second constructor, effectively converting the ``mac`` array (full of | ||||
| zeroes) to a character string full of zeroes. | ||||
| So what happens?  How does the unique ID become a string of zeroes?  Well, the example code calls | ||||
| the second constructor, effectively converting the ``mac`` array (full of zeroes) to a character | ||||
| string full of zeroes. | ||||
|  | ||||
| The solution | ||||
| ============ | ||||
| @@ -328,4 +327,6 @@ mangling.  So let’s update our code a bit: | ||||
|        mqtt.loop(); | ||||
|    } | ||||
|  | ||||
| And now you have a unique(ish) ID (well, unless you start tinkering with MAC addresses on you network, but then you are on your own). | ||||
| And now you have a unique(ish) ID (well, unless you start tinkering with MAC addresses on you | ||||
| network, but then you are on your own).  And if you want to update the unique ID while the | ||||
| software is still running, you can do that, too.  But i won’t help you with such perversions. | ||||
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