Category: Smart Home

Light switches are located at the entrance of each room.. Normally when you get inside you turn on the lights, and going out turn off the lights. Problem is when you are binge watching while in bed. I would be too lazy to stand up and turn off the lights. This was not a problem when stayed in Japan, the ceiling light of my room have a remote which was really conventient for me. I was thinking to implement some sort of remote control circuit to address my problems. Considering also that so called Smart Home system is flooding the market, I decided to take a look at the off the self options. App controlled LED bulb that uses standard wireless connections Easy to install and most are E24s, so…

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.…

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…

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!