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...

How to change some batteries in under 10s I know this might not seem the most impressive thing but how many people could actually change the batteries in a device they have this quickly? It definit...

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...