So a while back (let’s not talk about how long ago) I found the site of HazyMat Multi-zone audio: a discussion of the options He seemed to have found a great solution for doing some work on whole home audio. This is something I have been trying to find a good solution for myself. I decided to test this out myself using...

So my Super Villain lair is super secretly located in my converted garage… shhhh. So we found out that Florida is a rough place to be a super villain. It’s hot here. So I needed a way to help keep my lair cool. So many full moons ago my minions held a Staples store for ransom till they gave me an AC unit. This thing is...

So in the last 2 weeks I have been put to the test of patience and road rage. Last week there was a guy that decided to take his dog for a walk on the over pass and decided to stop and contemplate jumping. This closed down a 3 lane highway and the 2 joining lanes completely in morning rush hour. Diverted traffic was...

So a couple weeks ago I wrote about the new firewall setup. Quick update on the status of that. I built it out. Got it working. yay! But I want more cool stuff. So I have a business class fiber line run to the house with 5 static IP’s. So I decided to see if I could get pfsense to do failover router. You know, because...

So I have been running my home network on a home built router for well over a decade now. Many moons ago when I lived in my apartment a client of mine was working on converting Eckerds to CVS stores. As part of said conversion he had a ton of this little MaxTerm thin client machines. Which was not bad at all. It has a...

So I don’t know why, but I have over the last year or so really gotten into doing things with renewable resources (mainly solar). Well, lets say interested in. I have a couple of solar panels I play with but nothing crazy. So one day I get this crazy idea in my head. I need a rain barrel. But for what!?!?! I had no...

So I have a few things on order coming from china for some various projects. I figured since I haven’t posted much lately I will post some pre-project dribble. Phoenix Connectors – Aliexpress I have these coming to be able to connect audio up to my ClearOne XAP800. The XAP800 is going to be added to my Home Automation...

So, my openhab system periodically decides to leave the building. Appears there is a problem from time to time when the z-wave binding loses communication to the z-wave stick it gets upset and tells openhab to take a hike. This is bad. Once because it exposed something I missed in my fault tolerance. I had compensated...

Ok, so my son is 8 and that means he automatically likes Pokemon and minecraft.
He also likes anything with LED’s (geek in training I believe… blinky oooooh shiny…. sorry, distracted.)

So last week my big storage box started acting up.  Random reset, dropping a drive, all and all, not good.