Category Archives: Technical

Power Outage Knocked Out System

Posted on June 25, 2018 by larry

Last night had a power outage, one of my ESXi hosts was rebooted. Need to fix that. But another issue was that an connectivity to the MQTT server was lost for a few minutes.  MQTT server was not down, just … Continue reading →

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ESP8266 Friendly 315 Mhz TX/RX

Posted on June 24, 2018 by larry

After some trial and error I think I have settled on some 315Mhz Transmitter and Receivers I like The ones in blue are the 315Mhz ones I like. Although I did not get mine from ebay, I found them doing … Continue reading →

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New Tool For Virtual Center

Posted on June 21, 2018 by larry

Today I had to query virtual center. I tried the old vmware-vix utility and it just did not work. Then I found a utility called govc, the binary can be downloaded from here https://github.com/vmware/govmomi/releases/download/v0.16.0/govc_linux_amd64.gz It’s a simple gunzip of the … Continue reading →

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Getting Techie

Posted on June 20, 2018 by larry

So I was able to get the new Miracast working, I guess I got a dud. But the real story today was getting deep in to programming. I got to working with MS Access with an MySQL (actually MariaDB) back … Continue reading →

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Miracast A Chance

Posted on June 19, 2018 by larry

Giving Miracast one more chance, I think the one I got was a bad one. If it is bad, going to immediately switch to chromecast and all its privacy implications.  

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Home Assistant

Posted on June 18, 2018 by larry

I am giving this a fair shake, after 24 hours, I figured out a few things. Moving slow, but I think I can do everything my python scripts did and it looks prettier. Actually worked out today at the Y, … Continue reading →

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Happy Father’s Day 2018

Posted on June 17, 2018 by larry

Did some cool stuff with the family, supposed to watch incredibles 2 but was too late getting tickets. We did go out to lunch, then went shopping at South Center and a strip mall nearby. After that we picked up … Continue reading →

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Cool Onvif Tool

Posted on June 16, 2018 by larry

One of the problems I get when I test a new camera is setting it up. Trying to figure out the IP(sometimes is it not in the DHCP logs), changing it, then figuring out what the rtsp settings are. But … Continue reading →

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Now Zoneminder on Android

Posted on June 13, 2018 by larry

Been struggling with zoneminder on my phone, I had a hard time getting feeds on it. Looks like it had to do with google chrome, not sure what I did right, i think an update. But it works now. Just … Continue reading →

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Zoneminder Load

Posted on June 12, 2018 by larry

So my buddy Rob runs Blue Iris, I don’t think it is a bad product, just that for me, I am a Linux guy and feel more comfortable with Zoneminder running on Linux. But I do want to share how … Continue reading →

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