Simple ideas to assist with your smarthome renovation
So for a while I’ve been looking at ways to access my music collection on my NAS around the home. I’ve tried various software applications and packages, and then tried casting to various devices and speakers. To be honest it was a little hit and …
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Ok, so recently, I went through my Home-Assistant installation and decided to add a few integrations allowing me to interact with my Proxmox server a little closer. For those of you who don’t know, Beelink were kind enough to send me a small home server …
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So a couple of days ago, Ryan from Violet reached out to me to let me know that the main feature that I was waiting for on their smart switch had been released and was out in the wild. It was now possible to integrate …
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So following on from a previous post showing you how to utilise an Elgato Stream Deck in your home automation, I’ve recently been alerted to a new Stream Deck integration which has simplified everything. In the past, I’ve showed you various ways of integrating the …
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Ok so following on from Part 1 where I detailed the initial steps you can take to give your workstation or laptop a bit of a spring clean, I wanted to revisit and add the second part to the process. Part 1 has been particularly …
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The guys over at Violet were kind enough to send me one of their ultra cool looking Violet SmartSwitch Lites for me to review and have a play with. In this post, I’ll run you through the hardware, the set up process and my overall …
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So recently I’ve been looking to find a small low powered machine that I could use as a small media server. I’m currently abroad so I was looking for a light weight machine that I could move around quite easily, but would also be sufficiently …
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The day before your holiday… …you’re charging all your devices and working out what cables and chargers to bring. The whole family is fighting for bandwidth as they are trying to save various episodes and movies to their tablets from various services such as Netflix, …
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Ok so for a long time now I’ve wanted to set up Nginx Proxy Manager (NPM). I’d seen a multitude of youtube videos walking through it as well as wanting to see if I could get it done. Today was the day I set about …
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So this was something I’d been looking at doing for a long time. A while back I bought a load of NFC tags on Amazon for use in some projects around the house. Up until now, I’d struggled to see the use case for many …
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