Simple ideas to assist with your smarthome renovation
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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In this post, I am going to review the Dusun Smart Gateway, from the initial unboxing to set up and my final thoughts. TL:DR – lot’s of potential, but only in the hands of someone with some serious Linux-Fu! So towards the end of last …
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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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So continuing with my Proxmox / docker journey, I decided it was time to fire up Plex and get some kind of media server up and running. Whilst searching through various Plex articles I found that whilst there was plenty of documentation about how to …
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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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Recently I’ve seen a large pickup in people looking for advice on what kind of hardware is best to use for a suitable plex server. Having been a Plex user for 7-8 years+ and a lifetime subscriber, I thought I’d share some setups that I’m …
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I recently saw a request in one of the forums online asking for help on how to trigger events when certain events happen in plex. I thought I would write a quick tutorial to show how this can be done in Node-red. With the help …
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Hey guys, with the release of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS server edition, i decided it was time to upgrade my home server that’s been happily running 18.04 LTS for a year or so already. I decided to do an in situ upgrade as opposed to starting …
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So I just thought I would see how quick our internet provider was and what I could do to make it quicker still: I ran 10 different tests which you can find how to do it here (I essentially spun up a ubuntu Virtual machine …
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