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. I’m reproducing the instructions here to give me a better 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 of the OS this isn’t possible. The easiest way I’ve Read more…
When we were refurbishing the house a year ago we added a couple of ANNKE C800 cameras as well as an ANKKE NVR to record and manage them. However it turns out that the NVR is a piece of crap with the web UI only being accessable via Internet Explorer. Read more…
I bought the Logitech G Pro Wireless mouse last week as my old mouse was getting a bit skanky and I wanted something nice to replace it with. So far I like it but the one annoyance was that when I turned my PC off or it went to sleep Read more…
I’ve had a raspberry Pi for a while now and one of the projects I’ve wanted to do but never actually got around to was to use it as a weather station as in this example from Microsoft. Unfortunately getting this working wasn’t as easy as expected, though this was Read more…
I recently built a new PC based on the Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Gaming 7, as this is a pretty new motherboard I figured I’d try and update the BIOS/UEFI to the latest version. Unfortunately it seems the Q-Flash utility for doing this doesn’t work properly (at least not for me). Read more…