Buying a network switch for a home lab or serious home network sounds like a simple task. I was looking for something fairly specific: 16 or 24 ports, managed, from a European vendor, and suitable for a standard…
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Category: Personal Tech
WordPress, self-hosting, home automation, and the private technical systems I build, test, and refine.
For my setup, home automation is less about dashboards and more about a clean instance tree, API access, and reliable data flows into a real-time database. In that context, ioBroker still fits better than Home Assistant.
Read articleA practical step-by-step guide to serving two domains from one self-hosted WordPress installation, including DNS, hosting aliases, SSL, and dynamic WordPress URL configuration.
Read articleMy first experiences in playing around with home automation are resulting in a running framework (basic network for extendibiltiy and integration). I am working with raspberry Pi and Home Assistant as central environment. The operating system is debian…
Read articleAfter reading through the manuals of the Yamaha N470d receiver I recognized that the usage of banana plugs are documented for the speakers but they are not for the receiver unit of the stereo device: The speaker input…
Read articleAfter configuring the airplay feature of my Yamaha CRX-N470d I encountered issues with my wifi router. For the wifi I am using an Zyxel NBG-419N v2. The Zyxel router by default has the UPnP feature deactivated. To get…
Read articleSince about one year I am unsing Illdy theme for my wordpress blog. Upgrading my blog from illdy theme from v1 to v2 broke severall things on my blog: custom CSS Blog Archive settings page featured image settings
Read articleThere are several discussions going on about the latest updates of the apple products. iPad pro seems to be a handy and well designed product. Even the price seem to be ok, comparing it to its direct rivals…
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