Category Archives: Technical

433Mhz ESP8266 Gateway

Posted on September 14, 2017 by larry

Finally decided to try and mess with an ESP8266 gateway for the 433Mhz network. This is the first iteration. The transistor you see is a 2N7000 mosfet that acts as a 5v to 3.3V TTL level shifter. Unfortunately it still … Continue reading →

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8TB Mycloud

Posted on September 13, 2017 by larry

Decided to try and centralize all of my media on a NAS on my local area network. Yesterday I mentioned getting an 8TB disk, I got it.  With another expansion disk, I will have two 8TB shares. Hoping all the … Continue reading →

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Playing with WD MyCloud

Posted on September 12, 2017 by larry

A coworker at work was thinking of setting up a NAS at home.  I had the Western Digital MyCloud and told it was a simple device, does what I needed it to. But it got me thinking of maybe hosting … Continue reading →

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New Silicondust HD Homerun

Posted on August 31, 2017 by larry

I got a new HDHomerun that has built in hardware encoding. I knew I wouldn’t have time today to get it setup, a three day weekend is coming up and hope I can get it up then. I purchased it … Continue reading →

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So close to finishing phase 1

Posted on August 28, 2017 by larry

I am so close to finishing the garage phase 1. I could the computers thinner VGA cables, drawback was it needed a gender bender.  But it looks better. But the huge one was getting the color coded network jacks. Looking … Continue reading →

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Garage Cleanup Phase 2

Posted on August 27, 2017 by larry

I pulled apart some shelves to get me access to all the rats nest of wiring. I did get it up.  Unfortunately, I unplugged something and when I replugged it in, the UPS went nuts and fried itself. Hope I … Continue reading →

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Organizing Garage

Posted on August 26, 2017 by larry

Today I really hit the garage, one huge thing I did was organize a lot of the cables. Actually labeled a bunch. Also trying to get rid of some switches, replaced two of them with this Looks like a winner. … Continue reading →

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New Zoneminder Rig

Posted on August 25, 2017 by larry

I never did a proper review of my new Zoneminder Rig which is based on an older Dual Socket Xeon Proc with 4 cores each. Currently this box has Dual Xeon Quad Core E5606 CPUs and 12GB of Registered DDR3 RAM … Continue reading →

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Disappointed in New Antenna

Posted on August 24, 2017 by larry

Had this sitting on the floor for months now Pretty disappointed at it though, channel 13.1 is so hard to get. I set it up on a cheap PVC pipe mount. Hopefully it will work better in the attic.  

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Redo Cameras

Posted on August 19, 2017 by larry

So I am busy upgrading the cameras. Got two hooked up the way I physically want them, now looking at how to configure them in Zoneminder to make more sense.

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