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This website is hosted by IONOS

Due to changing how we access the internet, moving to 4G data internet connections, it became tricky to host this website ourselves. We use multi internet providers which are selected automatically by our load balancing router, so our outbound I.P. can suddenly change. Using Dynamic DNS servers wasn’t really practical Read more

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First HedgeHog update of 2023

During 2022, Ian built another Hog Hotel from scratch to his own design. It features a viewing window on the front, two entrances and a low-cost surveillance camera. We constructed the hedgehog house above in 3 pieces: the floor, the body, and the roof. We made the floor from some Read more

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How we connected our 4K Fire Sticks to our network

4K Fire Sticks are great. We’re very pleased with them. It’s great, but sometimes there’s a problem with connectivity, probably more related to Wi-Fi. As a result, Ian decided to hard-wire the Fire Sticks directly into the house’s Gigabit network. The Fire Sticks connection to power, and the world is Read more

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ieGeek Security Camera Outdoor with 25m Night Vision – Our Hog Cams

We show the CCTV cameras we are using as Hog Cams below: ieGeek Security Camera Outdoor with 25m Night Vision ← paid links on this page Some more images below from our Hog Cams: Before opting to install Synology Surveillance Station on a couple of our storage Synology NAS’, we Read more

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The TP-Link ER605 settings we use

We are happy to share our settings in .pdf format for the cost of a , these settings took us a little time to work out.

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Second HedgeHog update of 2023

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Ian’s instant coffee hack

A more palatable coffee for your taste buds and pocket In these crazy times of soaring prices, Ian does enjoy a coffee in the morning, he calls it his “A caffeine kickstart”. Ian has had to drastically reduce his daily caffeine intact, never drinking coffee in the afternoon due to Read more

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