We used to subscribe to Now TV as they have some good content, but we got fed up of the monthly ‘Boost’ charge of £6.00, which we feel is a total rip-off. Now we regularly get emails from Now TV offering special deals, the latest is entitled “your killer offer Read more
We have been informed by one of our relatives that Catherine Walton may have ended up in a work house at some stage in her life. Isn’t life is a funny thing, in just a few generations, one of Catherine’s descendants, is now a sitting High Court Judge in the Read more
We have had our pond pump connected to Home Assistant for a couple of years, simple programming On at dawn, off at dusk. There were 2 reasons for this noise at night, and basically trying to run all we can from our solar panels. The pump was purchased as an Read more
In 2017, we purchased a Synology DS716+II along with two Seagate IronWolf 8 TB hard drives, which we set up in the NAS as mirrored drives using RAID 1. Our plan was to store all our FLAC music, movies, photos, and more on it. We also installed the Plex Media Read more
We bought our Nest Learning Thermostat in August 2014, adding 2 x “Nest Protect 2nd Generation Smoke + Carbon Monoxide Alarm (Wired)” in July 2015. One for the hallway downstairs and one for the landing upstairs. Impressed by the thermostat, we invested in the “Protects” knowing that they had a Read more
This page is under construction On our “Replacing PLEX Media Server“ page, we partially explain why we wanted to move from PLEX as our own local streaming source. Another factor in our decision was that, at some point, our Synology DS716+II could suffer a hardware failure or not have the Read more