Author: Evert

I recently set up my Odido TV box with Home Assistant to control it via a dashboard. Here’s how I did it using the Universal Remote Card, ADB, and some custom buttons. This guide assumes you have a bit of Home Assistant experience. Prerequisites: Let’s start with the full reference config I have now: Points… Continue reading Configuring Odido TV with home assistant

Stap 1 – maak een boodschappenlijst in excel: Stap 2 – Sla deze op Stap 3 – Maak een nieuwe e-mail Stap 4 – Voeg het excel bestand toe als bijlage Stap 5 – Kies bijvoegen als kopie Stap 6 – Verstuur

After installing pihole, don’t forget to add a cronjob to update it regularly. I did so with a crontab entry: pi@raspberry$ sudo bash root@raspberry$ crontab -e Add a line: 30 1 * * * pihole -up This will update your pihole installation every day at 1:30

There are some tutorials out there to install the Unifi controller software on your synology NAS. I ran into some pitfalls, so here’s some notes that may help you out: Pull jacobalberty/unifi:latest (not sure how trustworthy it is, but it looks legit). Create a folder on your nas to store configs/data. I chose /docker/unifi When… Continue reading Unifi controller on Synology NAS

Some random tip I ran into: wordpress pokes itself (curl?) for updates and management tasks, so it requires to be able to find itself through your public url. My NAS hosts wordpress inside a docker container through a reverse proxy, and inside the docker container it must resolve the public hostname (blog.evert.rocks) to my internal… Continue reading Dns issue with wordpress on a synology

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