A few years ago, when I constructed my entire smart home network, I actually purchased a few web cameras.  I was thinking of testing out a few of them to…

I remember back in high school I was typing a paper for my AP European History course, specifically on the Defenestration of Prague, one of many apparently, and its lead…

I didn’t start out planning to write this article.  I mentioned this in passing last post,  I created a dataset and NFS share for running virtual machines.  At the time,…

As can be seen in the previous post, I did end up buying a LSI SAS 9305-16e [1] Host Bus Adapter.  This wasn’t out of a direct desire to actually…

I wasn’t really sure whether to write this article. It isn't very long and may not be worth an entire post all on its own.  However, every other major component…

After I had the Virtual Reality VM working for a few hours I noticed something weird was happening. It didn’t seem to be able to download anything quickly. I...

Z-Wave Migration Okay, when I last discussed the Home Assistant VM, I had just completed getting the Aoetec Z-Wave stick working.  Now I’m going to cover the installation of the…

Domain Name System One thing I have always wanted to set up for my home systems is a Domain Name System.  For those that are unfamiliar, the Domain Name System…