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’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…
How to set the default application in Windows IoT on a Raspberry Pi I’ve recently finished a project which turns my Lifx lightbulbs on and off through calls to their API from a Raspberry Pi running Windows IoT. This deployed fine to the Raspberry Pi but it proved impossible to Read more…