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For a while I’ve wanted to connect some scales to my home network to track weight day by day automatically. Its great having scales, but unless you can remember or write down the previous readings, its pretty useless if you’re looking to track performance. So I set about figuring out a way of getting an accurate reading from a set of cheap bathroom scales with an Arduino.
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I’ve been working on collecting BT Home Hub 5A usage by connecting with PHP + cURL and extracting data from the status page. The last piece of the puzzle is figuring out the roll-over point of the data counter; it resets when it reaches a high enough level.
I collected data every second for a few hours while repeatedly downloading linux torrents (I have unlimited usage) and here are my results.
In an earlier post, I experimented with retrieving date usage and uptime stats from a BT Home Hub 5A, and cobbled together a PHP class to automatically load a privileged page. With access to the data, I need to parse it before committing the results to a persistent database. Step in regex…