Simple ideas to assist with your smarthome renovation
Following on from my post on how to set up external drives in Unraid, I wanted to write up my solution for getting around a persistent error I kept running into when trying to install Nextcloud. The Problem I followed the tutorials online to the …
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In this post, I’m going to show you the steps needed to add an external hard drive to your Unraid server and make your media accessible to a docker container. I’ll show you how to set it up in Plex, but this guide should work …
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If you’re running an instance of Adguard in Docker on your network and wish to connect this to the Home-Assistant integration, you might have issues actually getting them to connect. I had tried several different variations of http/https, ssl on/off, verify on/off and even varying …
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After a few days of playing with the NSPanel Pro, I decided I wanted to integrate it more closely with Home-Assistant and Node-red. Whilst the Sonoff didn’t quite have the polish of the Violet, I knew that as it was based on Android, the OS …
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I wanted to join some servers up so that I could get better monitoring and quicker control. I have a Proxmox server in Asia, and an Unraid server in the UK. I’m a big fan of Docker. I run it natively on Unraid, but I …
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Itead hasn’t paid for this review, but they did send me the products to have a play with. All opinions are my own. Unboxing Itead were kind enough to send me a small parcel containing their Sonoff CAM Slim, a new NSPanel Pro and enclosure …
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Trigkey recently reached out to me to see if I was interested in reviewing one of their latest mini pc models. This review hasn’t been paid for, but they did send me a unit to play with. The unit itself is their Speed S3 a …
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OK, so recently I had this annoying issue where Windows 11 Security centre was showing me that Memory integrity due to Incompatible drivers cannot be enabled. I restarted a few times, but each time I was unable to toggle this on. It was either greyed …
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So recently, we’ve been suffering with a fair few power cuts. Some of the houses near us are undergoing some pretty heavy renovations, and well, let’s just say the electricians aren’t always precise when it comes to pulling the plug. Having lost part of a …
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Recently I decided to have a little bit of a spend up as there were a few bits and pieces that I wanted from Aliexpress. I thought I’d showcase what I bought and my reasons for it. Some of this I bought for the blog, …
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