Short story, I made a program. Instructions and download here: https://github.com/mrverrall/go-row Despite there being an appetite for rowing in Zwift the fact is a rowing machine is not a bicycle and a Concept2 rower won't connect directly to Zwift. The Zwift gods tease a rowing release every now and again, but it's been coming 'soon' for years now. Don't hold your breath. But people do row in Zwift, so how do they do it? To get the data from the rowers computer, the PM5, into something Zwift recognises as a bicycle you need a device that translates between the rower and the device running Zwift. There are solutions already available to do this. Some are expensive like the NPE CABLE (about £90 in the UK) and some are 'free' like the RowedBiker app. The downside with RowedBiker is that it needs to run on a extra device separate from the one running Zwift. If you have a compatible device lying around, great, otherwise you'll need to buy one. Meanwh
I've run into a few issues recently with my Moodle site ( moopi.uk ) due to the amount of time it takes for Moodle to compile the CSS cache for the new default theme, Boost. For most this is may be a one off issue that will go away once the CSS is compiled for the first time. This however really affects me as my site runs on a Raspberry Pi and so is lacking the raw grunt most servers will have to take this initial hit. On moopi.uk it takes over 10 mins to run this CSS compilation and as such does not finish within my PHP max_execution time. I could just raise my timeouts above this, but this still would mean my first visitor will probably never see a page load . While this may actually be a bug it's still very much a general problem for me running on such minimal resources. My solution is to run a CLI script to precache the Moodle CSS after an upgrade and before I leave maintenance mode. Now any downtime is graceful and CSS compilation and caching occurs without being affe