Tag: development

HomeWizard silly graphs

Since HomeWizard still does not show the graphs I would like to see, I started setting up Home Assistant to create my own smart home, with logging of all the stats displayed correctly. A combination of P1 import/export, Solar panels production PLUS the effect of the plug-in Batteries charging and discharging!

Look at what I see in the HomeWizard App, in three graphs(!): my ‘Home Usage’, ‘Solar Consumption’ and ‘Plug-In Battery’ profiles:

Please note these graphs are showing me using incredible amounts all during the day, PLUS the consumption at night is shown as zero watts, while of course the batteries are keeping everything running in the home, at around 250w ‘standby usage’…

So, now look at how much better it is, when all the data is combined in one simple graph:

Anything in the plus is actual usage by the home; split over battery, solar and grid as power source. And the minus shows batteries charging and power returned to the grid. This tells me exactly what I would like to know, my actual home usage!
Thank you Home Assistant!

I have tried to explain to Homewizard what is wrong with their graphs… Unfortunately it has not improved yet and I am not expecting anything anymore. Anyway, by now I cancelled my HomeWizard+ subscription.

That’s all folks!
Have a nice day…

WordPress Constants

Something I wanted to keep for reference.
See the source here: https://wppb.me/wordpress-constants

WordPress offers multiple ways to configure and customize your site, from the admin panel to hooks (filters and actions). However, one of the most powerful and often overlooked methods is through PHP constants. These constants provide developers with fine-grained control over various aspects of WordPress functionality.

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WP_MEMORY_LIMIT or WP_MAX_MEMORY_LIMIT ?

the more you know…

By default, WordPress enforces a memory limit of 40 MB. This means a single PHP script is allowed to use up to 40 MB of RAM. In certain cases, you may need to increase WordPress’ memory limit to run heavier plugins like WooCommerce or bbPress. To increase WordPress’ memory limit, you can define WP_MEMORY_LIMIT in your wp-config.php file using the line below.

define( 'WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '256M' );

The setting above will allow WordPress to use up to 256 MB of RAM for each script, as long as the memory_limit setting in your php.ini file is 256 MB or greater. As is often the case with computing resources, setting a higher memory limit doesn’t necessarily increase the performance of your WordPress site. Since WP_MEMORY_LIMIT controls memory allocation PER SCRIPT, it’s actually in your best interest to set it as low as possible to reduce the chance of a rogue script saturating the RAM in your server.

Sometimes, it’s a good idea to tailor WordPress’ memory allocation separately for the frontend and backend. That’s where WP_MAX_MEMORY_LIMIT comes in. WP_MAX_MEMORY_LIMIT allows you to set a different memory limit for WordPress’ administration dashboard. This is useful because certain administration tasks require more RAM. Below is an example of how you can use WP_MEMORY_LIMIT and WP_MAX_MEMORY_LIMIT together.

define( 'WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '64M' );
define( 'WP_MAX_MEMORY_LIMIT', '256M');

The setting above will allocate up to 64 MB of RAM per PHP script for processes spawned from WordPress’ frontend, while administration-related scripts from the backend dashboard will be able to use up to 256 MB of RAM.

Cannot find wrapper assembly for type library “ADODB”

Happy new year and Happy coding!
Using Visual Studio 2022 on Windows 11 with the latest updates to 24H2, started giving the following errors when trying to compile an older project:

The "ResolveComReference" task returned false but did not log an error.
Cannot find wrapper assembly for type library "ADODB". Verify that (1) the COM component is registered correctly and (2) your target platform is the same as the bitness of the COM component. For example, if the COM component is 32-bit, your target platform must not be 64-bit.

So, you Google a bit and find this, but don’t do that!
In my case, the following article helped, or just a comment from it “Mine was resolved by removing the reference to “Microsoft HTML Object Library” and adding it again in the project.“.

  • In solution Explorer, open ‘My Project’
  • Go to the tab ‘References’
  • Find your mentioned library on the top, in my case, ‘Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects 2.8 Library’ with some ‘ADODB.dll’ in a system32 folder.
  • Click the ‘Add’ button, tab COM > Type Libraries, and find your library, it should be checked.
  • UNCHECK it, and OK the popup
  • Repeat: Click the ‘Add’ button, tab COM > Type Libraries, and find your library, now unchecked.
  • CHECK it, and OK the popup
  • Save everything and try to compile again.

That should work.
If not, so sorry, but it did for me…

Have a nice day!