Monitoring Compressor Tank Pressure and Counting Refill Cycles Using a Pressure Transducer, an Arduino, Home Assistant and MQTT

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I am the kind of person who operates on data. I also like tools and want to maintain them well. For many of my small engines I use hour meters to provide me the data to indicate when to perform maintenance . I was looking for a project of late and thought, what could I … Read more

Setup Amazon Workspaces Pools Using FSLogix and Okta

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Amazon Workspaces Pools recently launched on June 27th 2024, it augments the Amazons Workspaces line up by providing non-persistent desktops in the cloud. In terms of a price to value ratio, this offering greatly reduces the cost to serve when comparing against Amazon Workspaces Personal, Amazon Workspaces Core and other VDI solutions (Citrix, Azure Virtual … Read more

Lessons Learnt Building An AI-Powered People Counter

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Recently I started working for a relatively new AWS partner (V2 Digital) leading a team of builders. I author this post 4 months after AWS Sydney Summit 2024. Our goal for summit was simple. How do we differentiate ourselves from all of the other AWS partners out there? We didn’t want to blend in to … Read more

Building Mechanisms To Learn Cloud Architecture

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It’s mid year and I have recently changed jobs. In the past I have worked for cloud vendors (Microsoft & Amazon), where you are indoctrinated in content, not spoon fed, but you have information readily available. Today I am part of a technical consultancy (A cloud partner) called V2 Digital. How do I learn? What … Read more

Installing TvHead End On a Raspberry Pi5 with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

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How many TV’s do you have in your house? I only have one that is connected to a DVB-T (Digital Video Broadcasting) network, and whilst I stream the majority of content, there are times where I wish to watch free to air television. The problem with that is our primary TV is consumed by others … Read more

Building Frigate With Google Coral TPU, Portainer, Docker On A Raspberry Pi 5 with NFS Storage & Home Assistant Integration

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NVR (Network Video Recording) and false positives. Two words if you have been in this game long enough you will be familiar with. Tree’s that move, a spider all create noise to the point you tune out. Argh. I never have relied on the smarts of my Geovision camera’s but have used SightHound, Synology Surveillance … Read more

Building a GitHub CoPilot (Equivalent) Using LM Studio, Ollama & Continue Running On Apple Silicon

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AI is changing the world, it’s disrupting industries, deriving business value and reducing the barrier to entry to many fields of work. Like many of you reading this, I too am a regular user of ChatGPT, Bing’s CoPilot (Free GPT 4) and have also used GitHub Co Pilot. Before we get started, here is a … Read more

A Powerful Combination For Driving HVAC Efficiency : Polyaire AirTouch 5 + SMA Energy Meter + Amazon Alexa + Door Sensors + Home Assistant

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Recently after a some deliberation in living with a undersized and under performing cooling system for 15 years, my family decided to replace our multi zone gas ducted heating and evaportative cooling system with a Fujitsu R2 High Static Cooling Solution (16.5 KW Cool / 20.5KW heating). As usual lets start with a video to … Read more

Setting up MRTG Traffic Monitoring On Cisco / Ubiquiti devices in 15 minutes

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Before we get into this post. Let’s start with the solution. Let me show you my installation and what you will build. You can access my installation of MRTG here, and click through my ports. Have a play. Traffic monitoring, do you monitor your switch ports? If you don’t I urge you to. In a … Read more