Category Archives: datorer

Locally and externally available Home Assistant

Warning issued; Another tech related niche post… So you have set up Home Assistant and went with Duck DNS and Let’s Encrypt which is the standard solution but is only 95 % happy since it is not great when you … Continue reading

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New media center, RPI5!

Due to ongoing re-configurations at home there was a need/opportunity to upgrade the media center serving the living room. The Intel NUC which has served as media center for many years has shifted base to the cellar and a Raspberry … Continue reading

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VPN on the go

I have until recently been connecting manually to the “home VPN” on the mobile when not being connected to the home network. I knew it should be possible to automate with Tasker and it turned out to be very easy. … Continue reading

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Utilizing Nvidia GPUs in a MicroK8s cluster

Not that I have any serious processing to do, but a few days ago I decided to check how it could be done if/when the need is there. It can’t hurt to have the ability I thought. Since I already … Continue reading

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Building and hosting multi architectural OCI images for your local Kubernetes cluster

I have been running my MicroK8s cluster a few years now with a few applications without much issues. It is hosting my web exposed photo galleries and runs the distributed backup solution for example. Until now it has been sufficient … Continue reading

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Upgrading the NVMe storage

One of my servers has been running low on disk space and after a row of half measures I finally did something about it. A few months ago I added a second NVMe drive to another server and it was … Continue reading

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The Chipolo that got a second chance

To replace or to recharge, that is the question when it comes to battery powered devices. I have switched most of my small devices to rechargable batteries (the only exception is devices where Felix is suspected to kill/drop the battery … Continue reading

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Raspberry Pi 4 with OS on big (>2 TB) drives

I recently switched to Ubuntu 22.04 on my Raspberry Pi 4 and faced an issue with trying to use the full space on my RAID cabinet (Icy Box IB-RD3640SU3E2). The parition table type MBR is no good for such cases and … Continue reading

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Scripting inspiration

Yesterday, too late in the evening, I stumbled upon a need, to save an album available for streaming for offline use, to be able to stream it conveniently via my Sonos system (yes there are streaming services to stream directly … Continue reading

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Streaming and recording IP TV – follow up

I noticed that the recording jobs sometimes got interrrupted, since the streams were not completely reliable. If ffmpeg does not get any data delivered it gives up after some time and I do not see any parameter to configure that … Continue reading

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