You can have a Smart Home with Privacy 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 what I’d…
Is an ARM Processor in the running for my Workstation? If you have read my previous post you’ll know that I have recently moved my webserver over to the ARM-based Amprer hardware over on Oracle Cloud. That got me thinking what with apple transitioning over to their own ARM-based Apple Silicone is there an option out there…
And It’s All Thanks To Portainer And Servarr Not that long ago I moved my Home Assistant server from my old Mac mini to my new Raspberry Pi. The main reason for this is that the spinning rust I call a hard drive has started to become unreliable, there’s still a bit of life in…
Now we can stream!! In my last post, I gave you my idea for a multi-purpose camera rig. This time I’ll be fleshing that rig out to give us a Live streaming setup for Productions and Live events. The camera rig will be the same except this time we’ll have 4 of them paired with a…
Now we can stream!! In my last post, I gave you my idea for a multi-purpose camera rig. This time I’ll be fleshing that rig out to give us a Live streaming setup for Productions and Live events. The camera rig will be the same except this time we’ll have 4 of them paired with…
It’s so easy the pirates are already doing it Since the second year of my degree, a thought has been bugging me. Why are there no internet/cloud-based broadcasters? We have Over-The-Top stuff light the Red Button or On-demand programming, but the closest we get to prosper live internet broadcasting is live streams on platforms like…
I Finally Got a Lighting Desk Connected! Now I have my laptop back full time, Abi got her new one yesterday, I thought I’d have a shot at getting my offline lighting desk connected to WYSIWYG and see what I could come up with. As always I chose to connect the Chamsys MagicQ PC to…
Guess who’s Made a New Kit List? So a few weeks back Blackmagic Design released a couple of interesting products. One of those is now firmly attached to the top of my AV Wishlist. It’s the ATEM Mini Extreme ISO. This little beauty not only gives you the ability to record each of the inputs…
The History When I was back in University I produced a student-led webcast once a week. It wasn’t the most watch webcast in the world with average viewing figures in the tens rather than the thousands but whilst doing it I learnt a lot about setting up, producing and even hosting live programming. Then one…
Home Assistant Rocks!!!… Just not on my phone You may have noticed that I’ve not posted anything over the last couple of week. It’s been a bit busy what with work and the surprising amount of DIY that Abi has found for me to do now that I’m back at work. 😂 We’ve recently wallpapered…
Where are my Royalties @BlackMagic_News ? A Few months ago I wrote a post asking Blackmagic design to add a couple of features to the ATEM Mini Pro on the Blackmagic forums and it seems they have listened. Unfortunately, I’ve not received any royalties for my idea, and I’m not expecting ant any time soon either, but…
Was The Upgrade Worth It? I recently started my new job at Vodafone and one of the first things I was told was that I could talk about work. As you can imagine this makes writing about my daily life quite difficult as I spend 5 days a week with the wonderful team at the…
