My DIY wall project: Built-in screens and a charging station for multiple devices
The Idea This is really not a new project, in November 2018 I started to build a new kitchen. Before that I had a more open kitchen solution, but to…
My first DIY speaker cables
For a long time I have used a pair of Dali Blue Wave bi-wire cables from my power-amp to the speakers. This of course works great, even if neither my…
Making of a wall-mounted IP-camera monitor
As one of the Christmas gifts this year, I decided to build a framed wall-monitor to stream from a security camera at the family cabin.That is something you can't just…
Monitoring VMware ESXi in Home-Assistant with PowerShell
Even if Home-Assistant primarily is a home-automation platform, it can have many other use cases.One is to use Home-Assistant to monitor servers and other IT stuff in the house, it…
Wake-up Light based on Android alarm with Home-Assistant and Tasker
A Wake-Up Light is in my experience a better way to wake up, and I have earlier used a simple time trigger to achieve it.This is of course not ideal…
How to use Tasker with Home-Assistant
Tasker is a very powerful tool to create automated tasks in Android. This can for example be used to report events happening on a mobile phone to Home-Assistant. This is…
How to retrieve saved Wi-Fi passwords on a Windows computer
Have you ever forgotten the password to your Wi-Fi network?Here is two ways to recover forgotten passwords that are saved on the computer.The Windows GUI method will let you see…
How to install MagicMirror² on a Raspberry Pi
In this guide I will explain in detail how you install MagicMirror² on a Raspberry Pi. The guide will also show how to install/enable extra tools like SSH, Samba and…
How to stop spam in Google Calendar
Today when I checked my calendar I had some events that I did not add myself, spam events.This is events that is automatically added by invitations sent to your google…
How to create a shared Excel document that multiple users can edit at the same time
By default Excel files will be locked by the user that has it open.Other users that try to open the same file will just be able to do it in…
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