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So, you want to have an alarm for your house. But, you don’t want to give your money to ADT/Ring/SimpliSafe/etc… and you want to build it yourself, with components you can easily service and replace, right? If so, this is the article for you.

Reolink RLC-520 - Set Custom NTP

April 24, 2022 · in Home-Automation, Technology · 1 min read

I have a few Reolink cameras. Recently, I noticed the time of many of the cameras was not set correctly.

Embedded Door Sensors

April 24, 2022 · in Home-Automation, Technology · 2 min read

The default directions for installing doors sensors, involves using the included double-sized tape directly stick the sensor to doors and windows.

First Alert Z-Wave Combo CO/Smoke Detector

April 20, 2022 · in Home-Automation · 3 min read

This is a simple review, with a few steps for the First Alert Z-Wave CO/Smoke detectors.

Attempting to Reduce Power Consumption and Improving Performance

April 10, 2022 · in Technology · 5 min read

Pioneer Mini Split - Home Assistant

March 27, 2022 · in Home-Automation · 9 min read

TrueNAS Scale - Infiniband

March 26, 2022 · in Technology · 10 min read

Well, I have been wanting to get infiniband working for a while. I decided today was as good of a time as any…. So, I made it happen.

Programmable Thermostat GUI

March 25, 2022 · in Home-Automation, Technology · 5 min read

A while back, after converting my primary thermostat over to z-wave, I found a creative way of managing my thermostat’s schedules using the scheduler-card.

40Gb Ethernet Cost and Benchmarks

January 26, 2022 · in Technology · 6 min read

40Gb Ethernet Cost and Benchmarks

January 26, 2022 · in Technology · 5 min read

A while back, you may have seen my post for my 10/40GBe Network Upgrade. However, you were likely disappointed like myself, due to the lack of any actual 40GBe test results.

R720XD Bifurcation

January 8, 2022 · in Technology · 8 min read

Wait, the R720XD doesn’t support bifurcation?

Is power consumption the best metric for selecting a server?

January 4, 2022 · in Technology · 6 min read

Multiple times per day, I end up browsing reddit and running into…. MANY posts from people trying to hit the lowest possible power draw, no matter what the hardware costs to get there.

TrueNAS Scale - Use Vanilla Docker

December 15, 2021 · in Technology · 3 min read

How to enable and leverage the vanilla docker built into TrueNAS Scale.

Reducing Power Consumption Without Reducing Performance

December 12, 2021 · in Technology · 8 min read

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