Who we are Our website addresses are: Comments When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a Read more
Plus brief mentions of what else Raspberry Pi’s can and have been used for by Ian For anyone interested in knowing where this website is being hosted, Ian set the website up on a Raspberry PI 3B+, it is a WordPress site running on a LAMP ( Linux, Apache, MySQL, Read more
We recently updated the content on our webpage, detailing the additional steps we had to implement with additional firewall layers, to discourage hacking Since we implemented changes to our firewalls, including advanced firewalls with threat detection, comprehensive IP Blacklists, IP banning and security tools. We have noticed the number of Read more
Pages Home Assistant & batteries for ZigBee battery-powered devices As energy costs rise – Home Assistant – Better home temperature control Doorbell now working via Home Assistant Sandra & Ian’s Home Assistant SwitchBot IP65 BlueTooth – Our chosen device for temperature sensing Switching from fixed-contract Internet, telephone, and TV providers Read more
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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
We’ve been using IONOS for a few months quite happily with no issues, basically relying upon their Single Sign On (SSO). We were using the single sign on due to the random nature of the login id it creates to get into WordPress. As all was working perfectly, we never Read more