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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

The settings we used to connect a GrandStream HT-812 to VoipFone.co.uk

The settings we used to connect a GrandStream GXP2135 to VoipFone.co.uk

A graphical example of why we recommend Pi-Hole

Installing Fibre Optic LAN at Home:


This website is hosted by IONOS

How and where this Website was hosted

Creating a backup / test Web Server


Ian’s love of music and another headphone system

Raspberry Pi LAMP Server Hardware and Software

Our Synology DS716+II Purpose & Drive Failure(s)


How we connected our 4K Fire Sticks to our network

Replacing PLEX Media Server

Continuing our Jellyfin journey


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Dabbling with facial recognition software, What did we learn?

As part of trying to solve the family mystery, Jane and Ian had a dabble with facial recognition sof…

How to search DNA segment data

This post provides a link to a webpage where Ian will explain how, if you are familiar with spreadsh…

Additional steps we’ve taken to protect the hosting of our website

We recently updated the content on our webpage, detailing the additional steps we had to implement w…

NGINX installed as a reverse proxy server

Due to a recent mishap with the web server that hosts this website, Ian wanted more flexibility host…

A spare Raspberry Pi 3B, Volumio, Ultravox, Midge Ure, extended / distant family

A spare Raspberry Pi 3B, Volumio, Ultravox, Midge Ure, extended / distant family

Ian recently come across another spare Raspberry Pi 3B, which was in a cupboard. Being a bit of a te…

IONOS and an unexpected problem

We’ve been using IONOS for a few months quite happily with no issues, basically relying upon t…

Time to ditch those fixed pay monthly contracts

Time to ditch those fixed pay monthly contracts

As the MoneySavingExpert, Martin Lewis suggests, it is time to ditch any fixed contract services you…

A new Internet related project for Sandra and Ian’s home

Ian has been wanting to move the 4G antenna / aerial which they use for VOXI 4G internet for a while…

Now TV – Special Offers and ‘Boost’

We used to subscribe to Now TV as they have some good content, but we got fed up of the monthly &#82…