I have a few bare metal servers that sometimes need a console hookup. Since they are in a closet, this causes a problem. Enter TinyPilot. Using a normal KVM and a Raspberry Pi, now I can remotely manage the servers via nginx.
Getting away from the Synology for my home cameras, I found BlueIris and wanted to build some hardware to run it on. I bought an old Intel i7 computer from a coworker and added 2-2TB NVR drives in a Windows Storage Space that is also Bitlocked for encryption.
The PiMagicMirror software left something to be desired, plus administration was a bit difficult. I also didn’t like the amount of heat that the screen I had previously built was generating. So I purchased a large Digital Picture Frame that had an HDMI input. I recessed the electrical box on …
I’ve started upgrading all the Raspberry PIs in the house to Pi4. The Electron connected Pi was the first. This time around I soldered the Electron to a GPIO Proto board hat to make changing the hardware easier in the future. I also added this nice case and a fan …
I had been looking at the Unifi Wifi and Unifi Network gear for a while and I finally thought it was the time to rip out the old networking equipment. We rely so heavily on the internet that it only makes sense to have the most robust and configurable network …
A friend and coworker started to get into Ardunio once I showed him the Particle line of devices. He had the SoC on a Breadboard with wires going from the pins to the temperature sensor. I found these ProtoBoards for a few dollars each and offered to solder them.
I like to wait a generation before upgrading my PC at home. I know I’m not on the cutting edge that way, but I get a pretty nice discount on the hardware and mostly the firmware and software has the bugs worked out. This PC is the top of the …
Using a combination of Raspbian OS and https://magicmirror.builders/ I built a Pi Magic Mirror by our front door to give a family calendar and notifications of the days events.
Plex is a media serving software that can use your existing media library and display it on many device types. In conjunction to my NAS, I can stream my content to any of my devices and tailor the media stream to the connection bandwidth available.
While I’m confident that my canister filters are pretty well sealed for my Aquariums, it’s always nice to have peace of mind. I placed the filters in Lowes buckets to try and catch any leaks as they happen but I realized that the area for that water was not enough …
Following the post @ https://hackernoon.com/diy-home-automation-fan-control-with-raspberry-pi-3-rf-transmitter-and-homebridge-59ad24845770This is to control some things in the house that use the 433Mhz control frequency.
This project does a few things for me.First, I use the Pi to control the GPIO pins so I can test various things in the house and send a message via the cellular modem on the Particle Electron. One example is if the house loses Internet (the Pi can’t ping a …
Not exactly a hardware project, I had a need for an oscilloscope and found this one online. I 3D printed the case for it so it didn’t get damaged and I think it came out very nice.
Zabbix is my main monitoring tool in the house. I use it to graph everything from my internet speed tests, to even my houses temperature via my smart thermostats. I use Ansible to maintain the Zabbix agents on all my Linux based devices, and I use SNMP test to the embedded …
Building in-home storage now-a-days is a must. The digital age comes with a ton of data. Backing up documents and computers on the network is a necessity. I decided to go with FreeNAS because it is based on FreeBSD and uses ZFS for it’s filesystems. I built out a very …
I have a few bare metal servers that sometimes need a console hookup. Since they are in a closet, this causes a problem. Enter TinyPilot. Using a normal KVM and a Raspberry Pi, now I can remotely manage the servers via nginx.
Getting away from the Synology for my home cameras, I found BlueIris and wanted to build some hardware to run it on. I bought an old Intel i7 computer from a coworker and added 2-2TB NVR drives in a Windows Storage Space that is also Bitlocked for encryption.
The PiMagicMirror software left something to be desired, plus administration was a bit difficult. I also didn’t like the amount of heat that the screen I had previously built was generating. So I purchased a large Digital Picture Frame that had an HDMI input. I recessed the electrical box on …
I’ve started upgrading all the Raspberry PIs in the house to Pi4. The Electron connected Pi was the first. This time around I soldered the Electron to a GPIO Proto board hat to make changing the hardware easier in the future. I also added this nice case and a fan …
I had been looking at the Unifi Wifi and Unifi Network gear for a while and I finally thought it was the time to rip out the old networking equipment. We rely so heavily on the internet that it only makes sense to have the most robust and configurable network …
A friend and coworker started to get into Ardunio once I showed him the Particle line of devices. He had the SoC on a Breadboard with wires going from the pins to the temperature sensor. I found these ProtoBoards for a few dollars each and offered to solder them.
I like to wait a generation before upgrading my PC at home. I know I’m not on the cutting edge that way, but I get a pretty nice discount on the hardware and mostly the firmware and software has the bugs worked out. This PC is the top of the …
Using a combination of Raspbian OS and https://magicmirror.builders/ I built a Pi Magic Mirror by our front door to give a family calendar and notifications of the days events.
Plex is a media serving software that can use your existing media library and display it on many device types. In conjunction to my NAS, I can stream my content to any of my devices and tailor the media stream to the connection bandwidth available.
While I’m confident that my canister filters are pretty well sealed for my Aquariums, it’s always nice to have peace of mind. I placed the filters in Lowes buckets to try and catch any leaks as they happen but I realized that the area for that water was not enough …
Following the post @ https://hackernoon.com/diy-home-automation-fan-control-with-raspberry-pi-3-rf-transmitter-and-homebridge-59ad24845770This is to control some things in the house that use the 433Mhz control frequency.
This project does a few things for me.First, I use the Pi to control the GPIO pins so I can test various things in the house and send a message via the cellular modem on the Particle Electron. One example is if the house loses Internet (the Pi can’t ping a …
Not exactly a hardware project, I had a need for an oscilloscope and found this one online. I 3D printed the case for it so it didn’t get damaged and I think it came out very nice.
Zabbix is my main monitoring tool in the house. I use it to graph everything from my internet speed tests, to even my houses temperature via my smart thermostats. I use Ansible to maintain the Zabbix agents on all my Linux based devices, and I use SNMP test to the embedded …
Building in-home storage now-a-days is a must. The digital age comes with a ton of data. Backing up documents and computers on the network is a necessity. I decided to go with FreeNAS because it is based on FreeBSD and uses ZFS for it’s filesystems. I built out a very …