Energy Cost Calculator: Update

<![CDATA[n Access your home lab without opening ports on your firewall.  n n We recently changed our internet service provider from Vodafone to TalkTalk and one of the things I didn’t think about was accessing my home lab from outside the network. I just thought that I could open a few ports and Bobs your…

<![CDATA[n Moving from a Home Lab to a Cloud Lab sounded difficult but ZeriTier Made it simple!  n n I recently had to move all of my home lab apps up into my Oracle Cloud stack as my Mac mini decided that it was going to give up being a media server and become a…

<![CDATA[n I bet you never thought you’d hear me say that n You heard me right… I know. Shocking! Jim Hope thinking about buying things from Facebook.  n For those of you who don’t know, I don’t like Facebook. The fact that they have so much data on everyone, whether they use their services or…

<![CDATA[n Guess my learning to code project is going to have to go on the back burner… n I got a fantastic phone call on Sunday evening letting me know that the Vodafone store in Bridlington still wanted me to be their assistant store manager and that I could start this week. So as of…

<![CDATA[n You can have a Smart Home with Privacy  n I mentioned in a previous post that I’d moved my Home Assistant installation over to a Raspberry Pi from my ageing Mac mini. I thought that I’d go into a little bit of detail about setting up and what we currently have in our smart home and…

<![CDATA[n Can I Create a HomeKit Smart Home? n I’ve been wanting to create a Smart Home for years now ever since seeing a Grand Designs episode years ago when one of the home builders was wiring his ouse with a boatload of network cable so he could create a smart home. From that moment…