<![CDATA[n Accidental Smart Home Week – Part 3nTo finish out what has somehow become Smart Home week I thought I’d look at some of the available Smart Home appliances that I may be able to integrate into our smart home in the future. I’ve already tried to add a few extra things to our home…

<![CDATA[n Part 2 of Accidental Smart Home WeeknIn my last post, I had a look at different energy monitoring solutions that would work with Home Assistants new Energy tab. I thought I’d continue the smart home theme this week by exploring how I can upgrade our smart home past the smart bulbs and smart plugs…

<![CDATA[n It’s about time I figured out where we use all our energynIt’s been a busy week where I’ve learned a lot and slept just as much. Starting a new job is always tiring, there is a lot to learn in a short space of time. Due to the nature of my new job I’ve…

<![CDATA[n It’s time to get out my non-existent Credit Card… Again!  n As I mentioned in my last post, Blackmagic recently released a bunch of new products, I also mentioned that I’d be updating my kit list to include these new products… and here it is. This post took me a bit longer than usual as…

<![CDATA[n A lot was announced in a short amount of time  n Last Thursday Blackmagic Design had a live stream where they released some new products for both HD and 4K Live production workflows. As has become the norm, as I watch the live stream I was constantly thinking “I Wants all of these!”. So…

<![CDATA[n You can have a Smart Home with Privacy  n I mentioned in a previous post that I’d moved my Home Assistant installation over to a Raspberry Pi from my ageing Mac mini. I thought that I’d go into a little bit of detail about setting up and what we currently have in our smart home and…

<![CDATA[n Is an ARM Processor in the running for my Workstation?  n If you have read my previous post you’ll know that I have recently moved my webserver over to the ARM-based Amprer hardware over on Oracle Cloud. That got me thinking what with apple transitioning over to their own ARM-based Apple Silicone is there an option…

<![CDATA[n And It’s All Thanks To Portainer And Servarr  n Not that long ago I moved my Home Assistant server from my old Mac mini to my new Raspberry Pi. The main reason for this is that the spinning rust I call a hard drive has started to become unreliable, there’s still a bit of…

<![CDATA[n Now we can stream!!  n n In my last post, I gave you my idea for a multi-purpose camera rig. This time I’ll be fleshing that rig out to give us a Live streaming setup for Productions and Live events. The camera rig will be the same except this time we’ll have 4 of them…

<![CDATA[n Now we can stream!!  n n In my last post, I gave you my idea for a multi-purpose camera rig. This time I’ll be fleshing that rig out to give us a Live streaming setup for Productions and Live events. The camera rig will be the same except this time we’ll have 4 of…