Unlocking DS1522+ NVME Volume Capabilities With the recent announcement of DSM 7.2 being released I was really looking forward to see that Synology has enabled the capability of creating M.2 storage volumes on the DS1522+. Along with a long list of other amazing features that you can find here. But there was a
Updating the Sonoff ZigBee Plus Dongle Whilst using Home assistant on the new Optiplex hardware I recently came acquired (read up on that here), I noticed that my Sonoff Zigbee Plus dongle wasn't working as good as my previously used Conbee II dongle. I have had this Sonoff Zigbee dongle for a while since my Dotnetsheff
MORE POWERRRR!!! It's safe to say, that I have been an avid user of Home Assistant (HA) for a quite a while now. I have even spoke about it at a Dotnetsheff user group. Possibly over the last 2 -3 years I have running HA on a Raspberry Pi 4 4GB and
Home assistant Featured Safe sleeping notifications Simple demonstration on to automate safe sleeping notifications with Home Assistant
Public talking Post talk write up Last Tuesday (5th July 2022), I spoke at Dotnetsheff for the time. I've been co-hosting with @kevbite for quite some years, but after many post-event talks in the pub, it was finally my time. I spoke about all things home automation, with a brief entry into the world of it
blog Featured Fix Kindle Fire HD 10 "moisture in charging port" Currently 4 days in to travleing with Beth and the boys, we are down on the west coast of England in Hayle not far from St Ives and Georges tablet (a Kindle Fire HD 10) has started to fail to charge. We use this tablet alot in the car to
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Influxdb Home Assistant, InfluxDB & Grafana Intro For some time now I’ve been using Home Assistant [https://www.home-assistant.io/], there is some really great designs and inspiration in the community, mine though… It’s just thrown on one of my many pi’s in the rack at the back of my office. Within here
