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Tapo C720 Floodlight Review - Also known as Tapo TC55

Physical Things Electronics

About The Tapo C720 (The Tapo TC55 is the exact same thing) is a combination floodlight and Tapo...

Updated 2 weeks ago by William

433 MHz Devices

Home Assistant Advanced Setup

Why 433 MHz? While Wifi, Zigbee, Z-wave, and Matter/Thread are great, sometimes you just need a ...

Updated 2 weeks ago by William

Frigate NVR

Virtual & SaaS Products

  This page lists my unorganized thoughts on Frigate NVR which I plan to turn into a full review...

Updated 2 weeks ago by William

Tapo Mini Smart Wi-Fi Plug Warning

Physical Things Electronics

This is not a full review of the Tapo Wifi plugs, this page is a warning about a potentially dang...

Updated 2 weeks ago by William

Recursive Tees

Side Projects Old Projects

Recursive Tees is a computer science/ geek t-shirt store I created. I noticed a lack of sites tha...

Updated 1 month ago by William

Tdarr

Hosted Applications

Automatic video transcoding to H.265 - A more modern and space efficient format Tdarr server ...

Updated 1 month ago by William

Server Investigations

General Linux Tips

Low Disk Space Running out of disk space can cause all sorts of havoc. Get list of directories ...

Updated 1 month ago by William

Percona Tools

MySQL

Percona Tools can help perform schema updates on a busy DB without needing to take it offline. Yo...

Updated 2 months ago by William

Jellyfin

Hosted Applications

Logs: /var/log/jellyfin Plugin dir: /var/lib/jellyfin/plugins/ Other/Config dir: /etc/jellyfin/

Updated 2 months ago by William

RustDesk

Hosted Applications

Installed on server: Media PC as a service. Ports forwarded in router per RustDesk install direct...

Updated 2 months ago by William

Tesla

Home Assistant Integration Notes

You'll find several Tesla integrations available in the Settings > Devices & Services > Add Integ...

Updated 2 months ago by William

ControlD

Hosted Applications

Hosted on: Unifi Cloud Gateway Ultra IP: 192.168.1.1 The ControlD application is installed on t...

Updated 3 months ago by William

Jellyseer

Hosted Applications

Installed on server: Media PC, port 5055 using Docker URL: http://192.168.100.100:5055, http://j...

Updated 3 months ago by William

Tesla Fleet Setup

Home Assistant Advanced Setup

Instructions for setting up the Tesla Fleet integration in Home Assistant. This is an advanced se...

Updated 4 months ago by William

Mounting Network shares with fstab

Debian: Ubuntu, Pop!_OS

Auto Mounting a Network SMB or CIFS Drive As always, backup your working fstab first:sudo cp /et...

Updated 4 months ago by William

Nextcloud

Hosted Applications

Nextcloud is installed as an Add-On in Home Assistant. The Data dir is linked to a TerraMaster NA...

Updated 5 months ago by William

whoami

About Me

Name: William Wynn Location: Santa Barbara, CA Employment: Extensiv, Software Architect What I...

Updated 5 months ago by William

The Most Dangerous Game

Public Works Compendium Adventure

The Most Dangerous Game By Richard Connell Originally posted in Collier’s on January 19, 1924 ...

Updated 6 months ago by William

Setup Home Assistant on a Mini PC

Home Assistant Setup

NOTE: You will need a dedicated computer to rune Home Assistant. There are other options availabl...

Updated 6 months ago by William

Beats Studio Buds Review

Physical Things Electronics

About The Beats Studio Buds are water resistant wireless earbuds with active noise cancellation ...

Updated 7 months ago by William