Happy PI Day!!! A few years back… ok… like 9 years ago. I built an interesting piece of functional art in my living room. It was my media center pc, mounted in a double picture frame on my wall. This thing served me well for a long time. But now it’s time to upgrade it. After all this time the ATOM board in there has...

A while back a co-worker hit me up over the weekend and said “hey! I found this thing you want it?!?” Once finding out what “it” was I said sure.. Haha.. you know what “it” was, and you wanted it. Really? That’s how we are going to start this? After getting through hurricane irma and halloween season I was able to...

I use octoprint to manage my printer. When I can, I batch print. I will literally print things back to back. But I also love the timelapse and we have all seen it…. But I have more robot stuff to print!!!! Settle down there smart guy. Nobody asked you! Ok, interruptions aside. Running octoprint on an original pi is a...

So awhile back I came across an instructables article regarding using some ikea lack tables to make a 3dprinter enclosure….. I love ikea…. So this was the project. http://www.instructables.com/id/3d-Printer-Enclosure-from-Upcycled-Furniture/ I went to ikea. Got 2 lack tables and put them together…. I want my printer...

Hello Hello again. Recently I was chiming in on a thread on reddit regarding CCTV. I mentioned how my cameras/cctv is setup. Then I thought. Hey, you know would like to know this? EVERYONE!!!! Really. Conversation totally happened in my head. Told you Doctors it’s not too crowded up there. Let’s begin!! This all really...

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 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 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, with a friday and a saturday worth of work on my home automation move here is what is complete. install server os on vm install openhab and all bindings currently in use move openhab configs over to new vm shutdown old openhab-pi configure raspberry pi with virtualhere server to share usb configure new vm server to...

I have been running openhab for over a year now on a raspberry pi. I also run mosquitto mqtt broker with a great piece of software called mqttwarn. On my phone I run owntracks. So lets do a brief summary of what these pieces of software do for me and what I currently have configured. **Openhab – “**a vendor and...