Building the World’s Greatest Smart Alarm Clock
We live in a Smart Home and right next to our SleepIQ Wi-Fi enabled bed is the oldest alarm clock on the planet. It is your standard radio…
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Building a digital Cuckoo Clock with Home Assistant
If you have read about my Smart Home before, you know that I have speakers wired into most of the house for a Multi-Room audio experience. I use…
Increasing LUN sizes on vSphere [ Weird Error]
Normally this is a super easy thing to get done but today I was working with a client and ran into such a weird error with the fix…
Yet another inexpensive Motion Sensor for Home Assistant
Taking inspiration from BruhAutomation’s multi sensor, I decided to make a simple ESP8266 based motion sensor for my house. Here’s the part List : 1 x NodeMCUs –…
Moving Home Assistant DBs to external Flash Drives
So timing is everything… and my timing was perfect (ok, it was slow). Chatting in the Discord forums with some way smarter *nix users than me (Tinkerer and…
Inventory your vSphere environment with RVTools
If you haven’t heard of Robware’s RVTools, you are missing out. This handy little utility gives you a nice clutter free way to view basic information about your…
Running Thin without the Office Suite … and not turning back!
Here’s another great little utility/hack from Jacques Bensimon! About a year and a half ago, I jettisoned my laptop for most on-site client work in favor of a…
New Alexa Goodies announced!
So I love #IOT and today Amazon announced a bunch of new Amazon Echo devices! Here are the things I thought were interesting : The Echo Spot :…
Multi Room Audio for the Echo! It’s finally Here
So I’ve written about my Sound/Voice set up at the house before : Giving Voice to the Smart Home At the time, I really just wished that Amazon…