I wanted to extend the range of my Zigbee network to make device connections more stable. To that end I purchased 2 Sonoff Zigbee Dongle Plus P devices and flashed them to be routers following the instructions from this guide. Read more…
I’ve got a Raspberry Pi 5 and have recently added an NVME hat to it for improved storage rather than running off of the SD card. Most guides suggest using the offical imager but as I’m running the lite version Read more…
I am running Proxmox on a Dell Optiplex 7050 Mini with an i7-6700T. The i7-6700T has an integrated Intel 530 GPU and in order to use this GPU in Frigate for hardware acceleration it needs to be passed through from Read more…
Although there’s a community script for creating a Frigate LXC in Proxmox I’ve found it easier get working with external devices like hard drives and a Coral TPU by running as a VM rather than as an LXC. Download the Read more…
If you’re running Linux devices like Raspberry Pis or VMs at home then managing them is easier if you can SSH into them as the root user. Though this is not always allowed by default. Open the SSH config file Read more…
I’m currently in the process of setting up a home k3s cluster. As part of that I want to use Keycloak as an OIDC provider for managing authorization and authentication in a couple of apps that I’m hosting. Because I’m Read more…
As part of setting up a home k3s cluster I had expected to be able to expose applications to the internet by using a Dynamic Domain Name System (DDNS) to keep my dynamic home IP address up-to-date with my domain Read more…
We run regular security scans against our resources using AppCheck and one of the issues it’s recently picked up is that we’re using an older version of openssh on our Ubuntu virtual machines which has potential vulnerabilities in it. Although Read more…
When working with GitHub workflows it’s possible to checkout different repositories to the one that the workflows are present in. However if the source repository is private you’ll get a not found error when trying to clone it even if Read more…
I’m currently creating GitHub Action pipelines for building and testing multiple solutions within a single large monorepo. These solutions target a variety of .NET versions so in order to allow them all to run in my pipeline I need to Read more…