Monday, September 19, 2011

Tension between wanting to use monitor and wanting to fix it

As I mentioned before, we spend 3-4 months in New Hampshire in the summer, which is exactly the time I want to actually use the home monitor to see what's going on in the house back in Maryland. But when things go wrong as they did in July, and again in late August after a trip home where I fixed (temporarily it seems) the problem briefly, I can't get my hands on the system to diagnose the problem. So, it's been problematic. I need to put in much more logging, but even then I'm afraid the problem is the laptop itself, being a first generation netbook, the Asus eeepc, and likely I need to replace it. Log files will do little good in that case.

I really should get a parallel setup for when I'm away, but even then I can't see what's going wrong with the remote system. So, I need to really run the thing when I'm there so when it fails I can see right away what went wrong.

So, until I get home this is likely the last post from New Hampshire.