Of late I have seen a couple of posts on Reddit where people have been asking why they cannot access a tailscale node via the local network if it is part of a subnet that is already being routed to...

This is a little project that I have had on the back burner for a little while. I recently had a little more time in my schedule and managed to get to a working state. So what is it? It is a Raspbe...

This is the manual for the Raspberry Pi playhead project. If you are looking for the instructions to make one then you can find that post here. Getting started To boot the pi playhead you will r...

How to disable the DHCP server on a TP-link Deco mesh network I recently moved house and, for the first time ever, was able to upgraded my broadband to fibre to the premises. This is great, and I n...

Today I decided it was the day that I was going to manage to get Alexa to talk to my Home Assistant (HA). There are a couple of things that made this slightly difficult for me. The first was that I...

Unfortunately, I have not been blogging over the last 6 months or so. This is because I have returned to my full-time job on the West End and due to many Covid complications I have not had the time...

Controlling Blackmagic Design Smart Videohubs from QLab is always a little bit difficult. There are network cues built into QLab but the required TCP cue does not exist. However, it is fairly simpl...

After sending a good few hours trying to get Prometheus node-exporter to work on a Raspberry Pi 1B+ I found that it didn’t actually support armv6. I spent some time hunting around and found this im...

Ever wished that you could get more Cloudflare analytics for free? But don’t want to upgrade your Cloudflare account? So here’s a hacky way to get a little more data out of the free features that y...