Hardware

While I am a huge fan of the Phillips hue lighting system, it is expensive there is no doubt about that. Whenever I visit Home Depot or any other big box store I try to look around the clearance sections as you would be surprised at how often Phillips Hue lights are sitting there selling for a fraction of the cost. After moving to our house I started to set up my office space and knew that I wanted to add in some wall accent lighting using a Phillips Hue LED strip, sadly at about $180 for the 5m (16ft section) it was going to add up in order to add lighting to the selected wall as it was just about 16ft in length, and that was not including the main piece with the part that actually connects to the hub. ...

When I purchased my Synology NAS I filled it with eight 4TB drives, and did dual redundancy leaving me with 22TB of space that I never thought I would fill…

{{ double-space-with-newline }}For a while now I have been thinking about upgrading my network, and since moving I have been having more and more issues with my 2TB Apple Time Capsule where I am forced to reboot it often. Besides rebooting it I have also been experiencing a poor or often times slow signal now that I live in a much larger than when I lived in Denver.

It’s been a while since I had an IP camera setup, but recently came across the Wyze IP Camera which is only $20 …. The price was kind of a deterrent at first until I looked at all of the features packed into this small/affordable IP camera. Wyze had just released version 2 of their camera so I picked up a pre-order, it took a few weeks longer to arrive than expected due to some issues with the production due to dust on the new CMOS sensor, but the wait was ok by me as it was more of an impulse buy rather than something I really “needed” to get by on a daily basis. My first thought, once it arrived, was that it had an Apple feel to the packaging. It was very minimal, clean, and simple. The setup was also very easy and done with all via my iPhone 8 plus. You simply power it on, wait a few seconds then hold the setup button which gives you an audible prompt to continue the setup which is

I thought after all these random Life posts, I would post some tech junk. I just got dual displays working on my box @ work… Granted, the second display is next to worthless as its runs on a shitty 8meg S3 Trio card; it lets me do 1024x768 15bit. Anything higher than that will either Not display anything Locks up the computer to the point where I have to unplug the box. All in all, it sucks and is slow as shit, but hell, it’s nice having my IM’s all on one monitor. Now, to get my FM/TV Tuner working, I might be able to make use of the second display. ...