Green spaces de-stress us

People have long thought that there is a health value of exposure to nature beyond the simple benefit of exercise and lowered pollution.

"Controlling for individual and regional covariates, we found that, on average, individuals have both lower mental distress and higher well-being when living in urban areas with more green space." [1]

"Quality of streetscape greenery in neighbourhoods is especially related to health.  The greenery–health relationship is strongly mediated by stress and social cohesion." [2]

"This research has demonstrated that mere exposure to views of nature can improve people's health and well-being by providing restoration from stress and mental fatigue. Moreover, this research has shown that views of nature can improve feelings of neighborhood safety and even lead to decreases in aggression and crime rates" [3]


1. White, Mathew P., et al. "Would you be happier living in a greener urban area? A fixed-effects analysis of panel data." Psychological science (2013): 0956797612464659.
2.  Sjerp de Vries, Sonja M.E. van Dillen, Peter P. Groenewegen, Peter Spreeuwenberg, Streetscape greenery and health: Stress, social cohesion and physical activity as mediators, Social Science & Medicine, Volume 94, October 2013, Pages 26-33, ISSN 0277-9536
3.  Groenewegen, Peter P et al. “Vitamin G: Effects of Green Space on Health, Well-Being, and Social Safety.” BMC Public Health 6 (2006): 149. PMC. Web. 17 Feb. 2016

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Enistic home energy switches

The controller unit is wired to the router.

If you look at the list of wired devices attached to the router, you can see the controller.  It's MAC address starts with 00:50:C2.

In my case, the address is 192.168.0.9

What's listening there?

matt@Linux2740p:$ sudo nmap -sU -p 53004 192.168.0.9
[sudo] password for matt: 

Starting Nmap 6.40 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2016-02-13 10:05 GMT
Nmap scan report for 192.168.0.9
Host is up (0.0047s latency).
PORT      STATE         SERVICE
53004/udp open|filtered unknown
MAC Address: 00:50:C2:F4:C0:8C (Ieee Registration Authority  - Please see IAB Public Listing for More Information.)

Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.53 seconds

matt@Linux2740p:$ sudo nmap -sT 192.168.0.9

Starting Nmap 6.40 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2016-02-13 10:05 GMT
Nmap scan report for 192.168.0.9
Host is up (0.0049s latency).
Not shown: 999 filtered ports
PORT   STATE SERVICE
80/tcp open  http
MAC Address: 00:50:C2:F4:C0:8C (Ieee Registration Authority  - Please see IAB Public Listing for More Information.)

Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 7.70 seconds

Ah!  The controller is listening on UDP as we expected.  It also seems to have a TCP service on port 80!

wget returns an index.html file - let's look at the IP address in a web browser.

Interestingly, we have a web interface which I didn't know existed.  It allows me to switch the light on or off from the interface, so I know it's working.  Now to debug the UDP broadcast.

Possibilities;

1.  It's not listening / acting upon UDP broadcasts in the the way it's supposed to.

2.  I'm not sending UDP packets the way I'm supposed to.

Let's consider the second possibility first.

matt@Linux2740p:~$ sudo tcpdump -i wlan0 udp port 53004 -X

tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode

listening on wlan0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 65535 bytes

09:53:25.705798 IP Linux2740p.local.55106 > 192.168.0.9.53004: UDP, length 33

0x0000:  4500 003d 11c0 4000 4011 a790 c0a8 0006  E..=..@.@.......

0x0010:  c0a8 0009 d742 cf0c 0029 4da3 3030 3530  .....B...)M.0050

0x0020:  4332 4634 4330 3843 2c31 2c30 3030 4436  C2F4C08C,1,000D6

0x0030:  4630 3030 3233 3833 3045 383b 0a         F00023830E8;.

09:54:50.059829 IP Linux2740p.local.45243 > 255.255.255.255.53004: UDP, length 32

0x0000:  4500 003c b5e5 4000 4011 c41d c0a8 0006  E..<..@.@.......

0x0010:  ffff ffff b0bb cf0c 0028 c352 4646 4646  .........(.RFFFF

0x0020:  4646 4646 4646 4646 2c31 2c30 3030 6436  FFFFFFFF,1,000d6

0x0030:  6630 3030 3233 3833 3065 383b            f00023830e8;

The first case here shows the packets being sent from netcat-openbsd thus;

echo "0050C2F4C08C,1,000D6F00023830E8;" | nc -u 192.168.0.9 53004

The second case is what I get after sending a broadcast from Python.