Building Mechanisms To Learn Cloud Architecture
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
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
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
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
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
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
Using A Raspberry Pi 5 & Ubuntu 23.10 As A Desktop Replacement (2024)
It’s the start of the year and I am between jobs. Most people have multiple devices, but I don’t. I am not one to have a device for this and a device for that. I live and breathe off one device and this is by choice. So whilst I am between jobs, I still need … Read more
Battle of the NAS’es – Why are QNAP NAS’es attacking my Synology NAS?
Are QNAP NAS’es trying to destroy all Synology NAS’es? Hang on let me explain, but before I do that a NAS is a Network Storage device, that typically today runs an embedded Linux OS, has a variety of applications and provides storage in the form of NFS, SMB and other protocols (even ISCSI) to devices … Read more
Building My Super DoorBell – Part 1 Integrating Home Assistant Notifications via Amazon Alexa with TTS and Alexa Media Player
Note– Amazon Alexa now requires 2FA App Integration. This tutorial is accurate at the time of authoring (January 2024). If you have Google powered voice assistants, this post could be applied to Google NEST by using Onju Voice My humble doorbell has been a journey, yes it still rings a traditional doorbell chime (16V AC) … Read more