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06Nov 2019 by jun No Comments

Pixel.. Pixel 3A.. Hey Google you made a almost perfect phone for a decent price.. Everything is great but why include a weak LCD!

Mobile

My wife have been using a hand me down IPhone 6 and Sony Z5 for quite some time. The battery are getting worst. The Z5 battery eat too much and became fat! Google launched Pixel 3a last May 8 2019 just right after Google IO 2019. The reviews came out and considering the price, the phone sounds like a winner. Unfortunately Pixel 3a or any Google Phones are not sold here in the Philippines except from Grey Market which are priced much higher with out any support or warranty. A cousin living in the US informed that he is going to home for a vacation. Considering the flight and the delivery date with delay buffers we decided to purchase the phone. The phone was ordered on the May 24 got…

04Nov 2019 by jun No Comments

Started with Blue and then came Contol… Homeassistant on Raspberry Pi

Smart Home

My first Raspberry Pi was bought from rsonline.com which arrived last February 2 2016, it was a Raspberry Pi Model B. Originally I planned for it to be a linux box for internet browsing, since I don't have a desktop PC. It was alive and he was called Blue. He was named differently from all the Gods that run on the network. There are so much resource on the net about raspberry pi.. all the things this tiny box can do. It was running Raspbian then I pop another SD card and set-up Kodi and have it as a TV box for awhile before changing it again. Blue is the one on the left, the one on the right is a another Raspberry Pi 2 B loaned from a friend.…

31Oct 2019 by jun No Comments

Content creation and a laptop stand

Woodworking

I have been a software engineer a long time, but I just realized that it is not software that I am really fond of. Actually it is creating something and ironing out any problems with what I created. Last Oct. 29, I need to take care of my kid while my mother attends to some emergency at the province. I was watching my kid playing minecraft on her laptop. A Dell Inspirion 3168 which was not intended to play games., So it gets to hot and she needed to raise it up using a make shift stand out of corner bump guards. I have some excess wood from my snack table project (more on this later)., Why not make a laptop stand out of it. Laptop is 11.48" x 7.…

27Oct 2019 by jun

WordPress and the world of Nginx reverse proxies

Smart Home

What do you do on your weekends? I get to have my WordPress up and running and accessible via Nginx reverse proxy. The proxy have been running quite some time to make my other services accessible to me outside Azure Haus. I encountered some roadblocks that took out my entire weekend, not bad for a first timer. There is not much help from the internet or I just could not find any that fits my needs. My router is configured to forward 80 and 443 requests to Nginx Server, Poseidon which is a Synology DS218+ NAS is runningDSM 6.2.2-24922 Update 3. The following packages were added. WordPress 5.2Web Station Apache HTTP Server 2.2PHP 5.6Maria DB 10PHP 7.3 (Optional, I installed later)Apache HTTP Server 2.4 (Optional)Text Editor (Optional but useful for…

26Oct 2019 by jun No Comments

Hello world!

Smart Home

This is the first entry, lets get this going. Am I planning to be a blogger of some sort? Maybe to late so not really. Anyway my home address always gets mixed up, my packages and deliveries are always a hassle for both me and the delivery guy. Why don't I mark my house as a business on google maps. I decided to mark my house as "Home Stay", while filling up the required fields the Website field get me thinking: I should create a simple Welcome Page. Nothing too fancy and not really a all text page. All the browsing and reading led me to WordPress. So here we go let us start this blog going!