If you’ve been reading this blog for any length of time, you know I’m a big fan of self-hosting. I run my own email server, my own DNS, my own media stack, and just about…
I’ve spent years frustrated with IR control in my smart home. Every solution was either a clunky, cobbled-together mess of components, or some cloud-dependent IR blaster that phones home to servers in who-knows-where. So I…
Long title and a large degree of entropy? Nah! This is a system that was built in layers but the components are largely used and fairly niche in their use. I’ve just decided that I’d…
Recently I had an issue that I couldn’t find a solution for using the power of Google. My company has a wonderful tool from BMC called ADDM. It’s an enterprise tool that allows you to…
Last week I finally received my two new shiny blink(1) mk2 USB RGB “things”; these were rewards for helping fund the KickStarter project from ThingM. The mk2 is the second generation and even cooler version…
Need to update multiple DYNDNS.org hosts on your Synology? Frustratingly you can’t update multiple hosts with the GUI on a Synology. Once you select DYNDNS.org as your provider you’ll see there is only the option…