New Wyze firmware due in January – Highlights
In an email sent to all current Wyze owners, the company explained that a partnership with XNOR.AI was coming to an end. The Artificial Intelligence company XNOR.AI was…
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Happy Thanksgiving from vCloudInfo.com and Bear Stone!
Just a quick note to wish everyone and their families a great Thanksgiving holiday this year! Hopefully, you are eating well, watching some football and getting ready for…
How to fix your Pi-Hole integration with Home Assistant
My Pi Hole has been broken for a while now. Not the actual Pi Hole service but the integration with Home Assistant. For a few months now, people…
What is IAAPA?
I live in Central Florida. Theme Park capital of the WORLD! Orlando is also a huge conference destination and I’ve been able to attend many technical conferences here. …
Alexa Beat Cortana … or is about to.
If you haven’t heard, Microsoft is stopping development, support, and roll out of Cortana in several regional markets around the world. Great Britain, Australia, Germany, Mexico, China, Spain,…
Adding Days Until Sensor to my Home Assistant Speech routines
A few videos and posts ago, we made a new Holiday sensor that would use Wolfram Alpha API to give us the days until a particular holiday. You…
vCenter 6.7 Upgrade failing during pre-checks on Stage 2. [Internal Error]
While doing a standard vCenter appliance upgrade from 6.0GA to 6.7U3, I ran into some weird issues. The deployment of the new appliance in Stage 1 went smoothly…
Disney Plus launches today!
In this Smart Home, we are Marvel and Star Wars fans. That makes us Disney fans by default. Today, Disney launched it’s streaming service Disney+. Since we are…
Microsoft Application Layering using MSIX
Microsoft purchased FSLogix in late 2018 and it looks like at this year’s annual conference, IGNITE 2019, we might have a sneak peek at some of the fruits of that talent acquisition. …