So - it's been a year since I last wrote an article on my blog, and funnily enough this on the same topic as my last article- An Amazon Dash Button Clone. As I've had the Christmas break, I decided to have another go at…
This guide follows on from Part 1, where we configured an ESP8266 as an Amazon Dash clone with a push button switch triggering MQTT events when pushed. Now that we have MQTT messages arriving at our MQTT server, we need to configure our Home Automation tool…
I have a problem, which can only be solved with over engineered solutions... Specifically, I have two desk lamps, as well as a fan with smart WIFI power plugs I normally turn off and on using my phone. The problem is I've stopped charging my…
PrefaceFor years, I have backed up photos from my smart phone using Dropbox. My primary purpose for this other than backing up my photos is because all images are backed up with the following file syntax: YYYY-MM-DD HH.MM.SSE.g. 2017-05-01 15.01.44.jpg After a couple of years…
First of all I can't help but recommend you read the Angry Technician's post How to stream EVERY channel from Freeview onto your network as he's written an excellent tutorial on what I'm going to also try and explain below. I've spent some time…
This post is for those running a Microsoft DNS Server This is a stupid thing that has been bugging me but I never really made the effort to look into it. I used to know how to do this since I actually did a Microsoft…
Back in May I built a new computer which included a Gigabyte GA-Z77X-D3H motherboard. All was well till I tried getting the audio drivers working correctly. At that point in time, I discovered if I wanted to use headphones say out my front audio jack,…
IntroductionThis has been so painful. I've spent hours trying to get this working with little info on google searches for when things have gone wrong. Fortunately, I have got it working! Hopefully this guide will be of some help if you're trying to get CUPs…
For several months now I've had this error, which causes my server to randomly blue screen and restart. I don't typically notice this though, as virtual machines running on top of the server are preset to auto boot once windows has restarted (thanks to VMWare…