A cozy little stop on the web
In this installment of making a smarter home, I’m going to look at configuring Home Assistant to do more than sit there and look pretty. Configuration I have to say, it is unfortunate that Home Assistant hasn’t made more effort to make the front end the …
It has always been a dream of mine to get a home that could be considered smarter than a person is, or if smarter isn’t the right term, certainly more than the monolithic structure that we live within. The idea of home automation has been …
I have just begun my foray into cloud hosted services. Unfortunately, while I would like all my journeys to begin with a spark, a desire of my own, I find this journey handed to me. Sadly, I find myself directed in ways that I wish I weren’t, and that has me at odds with my desire. Work with a new technology, one that could prove all sorts of fun, or shun it because some one else thinks that the cloud is a hammer that can solve all problems?
So, to my chagrin, I find myself now, with this, a first step into a new world. A presentation of myself as an experiment. Will it work out? Will anything of value come from it, even something so simple as my own education? I guess only time will tell.
Without further comment, however, on with the show.
One of the things I have tinkered with from time to time is the next generation of network addressing. Instead of the usual IP address people are used to, such as 192.168.1.1, the design was to quadruple the range. This allows for an address for …
Ever since I built Hyperfox (a sandbox development server), I have been struggling to get a grasp on the whole concept of Water Cooling. I thought it was cool in some respects, where people would immerse their rigs in mineral oil in a fish tank …