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The Smarthome Book Essential reading for those wanting to create a smarthome. Home cinema, automation, whole house audio as well as surveillance, security and more covered.

Seeing errors connecting Nextcloud to Mariadb? Read on for the solution in the next of our Unraid posts...
04/12/2022

Seeing errors connecting Nextcloud to Mariadb? Read on for the solution in the next of our Unraid posts...


A quick tutorial fixing the SQLSTATE error when installing Nextcloud on Unraid, with Mariadb as the database. Follow along to connect the database correctly.

If anyone's interested in how to tie in their external drives with Unraid and be able to share and sync them with plex, ...
04/12/2022

If anyone's interested in how to tie in their external drives with Unraid and be able to share and sync them with plex, read on!

In this post, I'll show you how to add an external hard drive to your Unraid server and make it accessible to docker containers, using Plex as an example.

Just a quick one. For those of you struggling to link the Adguard integration to an external Adguard Home interface - se...
21/11/2022

Just a quick one. For those of you struggling to link the Adguard integration to an external Adguard Home interface - see below!


If you're running Adguard home in a separate Docker container, this post should help you fix the connection issue when trying to bring it into Home-Assistant.

Managed to increase the usefulness of this panel ten fold, by adding Home-Assistant to it. It makes a great Desk Mounted...
21/11/2022

Managed to increase the usefulness of this panel ten fold, by adding Home-Assistant to it. It makes a great Desk Mounted assistant. You can view CCTV in real time, get alerts, control your home or office. Just need to find a way to keep the apps updated automatically!

In this post, I'll direct you to a tutorial on how to run Home-Assistant on the NSPanel Pro. I'll cover some of the issues I had when going through the process.

Decided to take Portainer up on their offer of 5 free nodes for their Business Edition. Used Portainer Agent and Tailsca...
08/10/2022

Decided to take Portainer up on their offer of 5 free nodes for their Business Edition. Used Portainer Agent and Tailscale to connect two instances together seamlessly and securely.

In this quick tutorial, We show how to connect Portainer instances together using Tailscale. Covering Proxmox & Unraid, we also upgrade to Portainer Business.

Trigkey were kind enough to send us one of their mini pcs for a review. Coupled with a USB-C gigabit port, and you've go...
03/10/2022

Trigkey were kind enough to send us one of their mini pcs for a review. Coupled with a USB-C gigabit port, and you've got a powerful router or NAS on your hands!

Here we unbox and review the Trigkey Speed S3 and set it up under a variety of conditions. Testing Windows 11, OPNsense and TrueNAS Scale on this Ryzen 5 350H.

Itead/Sonoff were kind enough to send over some products for us to have a look and review. Check the link to learn more ...
30/09/2022

Itead/Sonoff were kind enough to send over some products for us to have a look and review. Check the link to learn more about the NSPanel Pro, CAM slim and the Enclosure Stand.

A review and complete set up of the Sonoff NSPanel Pro, the Enclosure Stand and the Sonoff CAM slim. What works, what doesn't and Home-Assistant integration.

A quick and simple way to add your music collection to Sonos. Unlock your music server using Airsonic-Advanced:
04/04/2022

A quick and simple way to add your music collection to Sonos. Unlock your music server using Airsonic-Advanced:

A quick tutorial on creating an Airsonic music server and adding it to your Sonos Music system. Add music from your NAS directly to the Sonos Ecosystem.

Container monitoring and the ability to remotely stop/start via Home-Assistant.
22/02/2022

Container monitoring and the ability to remotely stop/start via Home-Assistant.

A quick tutorial detailing how you can monitor and control docker containers via Home-Assistant. We walk through how to set up Rest sensors and switches.

Now we have full control of the home via the Violet SmartSwitch Lite!
01/02/2022

Now we have full control of the home via the Violet SmartSwitch Lite!

A quick tutorial on how to integrate your Violet SmartSwitch Lite into Node-red and Home-Assistant using HTTP Post requests and webhooks.

Just published a quick note for those looking to use Docker Compose to create a Plex Server...
18/01/2022

Just published a quick note for those looking to use Docker Compose to create a Plex Server...

A quick tutorial on how to create a Plex media server using docker compose. We'll use a Portainer stack all whilst running on Proxmox.

Part 2 in our series showing you how to keep your Laptops and Workstations running optimally...
15/11/2021

Part 2 in our series showing you how to keep your Laptops and Workstations running optimally...

Part 2 in our series of cleaning and tuning your computer. This section focuses on deep cleaning and disabling of unwanted Windows 10 and 11 features.

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