Category: IT & Networking

30 April 2024

MAME Cabinet Raspberry Pi 4

An old Taito standup arcade cabinet that I’d previously kitted out with MAME, came back from storage and I decided to refit it with something more maintainable. MAME and emulation should be a lot simpler now than it was back then shouldn’t it?

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3 May 2022

ESP8266 with PWM to control a computer fan

Use of an ESP8266 to PWM control a 12Vdc, 2-wire computer fan, with a MOSFET (first with Tasmota, then a change to using ESPHome)

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2 August 2021

Viewsonic Touch Screen for Home Assistant Display

Use of a pretty old Viewsonic All-in-One computer as a home automation display. I picked a couple of these up for around NZ$40 each, however found the touch screen didn’t work out of the box as drivers were missing from Linux.

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15 June 2021

Edgerouter Firewall Control with MQTT

Use of an Edgerouter X router with MQTT (& mqcontrol) to block kids electronic devices from a network on commands from a home automation system.

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27 May 2021

zigbee2mqtt Setup in Docker for Home Automation

a setup to allow off the shelf zigbee devices to report to a mqtt server. Total cost

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12 April 2021

Internet Speed test to InfluxDB & MQTT with Docker

Use of the Ookla speedtest cli to test the internet connection regularly, and push the results to influx db & MQTT.

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20 March 2021

Controlling a Computer Remotely with MQTT

I was looking for various ways to control my computers via home automation, and my method of choice MQTT. I found mqcontrol by albertnis to be the best option and simplest for my use case.

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21 September 2020

Using nsupdate to update a DNS server using docker

Summary This sets up a continual check (using cron) to obtain the current external IP, and if it has changed from the last check, update the remote dns server (that you need full access to). Notes do not as yet show how to set up the dns server and certs. Suggestions for simplifying welcome, maybe holding the current IP address...

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13 May 2020

Setting up Alt-f Firmware on Dlink DNS-320L NAS

These are cheap 2-bay NASs with replacement open Firmware install.

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24 April 2020

Tasmota based Equipment Cabinet Fan Controller

More an exercise in playing with Tasmota & documenting how Tasmota Rules work, this overly complex fan setup is a standalone fan controller/thermostat for my equipment cupboard.

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18 July 2012

My Favourite Android Applications

These are all the apps I use right now (not all of them though, that would take quite a while)…some I use more on the tablet, some are not free, and some are widgets only. I’ve tried to note in the detail all this information.

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11 July 2012

Cheap APad WonderMedia Tablet firmware upgrade

A cheap APad WonderMedia Tablet firmware upgrade. It is marked on back as APad Starter, WonderMedia WM8650. Installed Universal Uberoid WM8650 firmware.

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3 November 2010

Network Bridging in an Ubuntu desktop/server

Requirement is have two or more network cards on a server that do the same job as a network switch.

1000base switches are more expensive than a few NICs and spare PCI slots (although the bus may not be up to all that traffic). The Desktop is running LTSP so Gigabit Ethernet is a much better experience for the clients.

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