WeatherFlow Tempest Install I really wanted a weather station for a long time, but I could never find one that was a reasonable price for someone new to the hobby, but had good
Bullshit Advertising Requests #2 I got an email from this weird site that just be there to advertise home moving services while getting random companies to write articles to fill their site. Here is the email they sent me. As you can see the subject of the email
2019 F150 On-board Battery Tender Since COVID I started working from home, which means the only driving I really did was the 3 mile round trip to Home Depot every now and then. I noticed
Garage Compressed Air Setup I find myself needing compressed air for nail and staple guns, filling up tires, blowing out dust and other stuff, and I was sick of using my small and loud
Blog Hosting Update I started hosting this blog over a year ago, here is where things currently stand and how things are performing. When I set it up, I pretty much just guessed everything. So far its working well and I get no complaints about performance. I
Updated ADS-B Flight Tracking setup A while ago I setup my flight tracking setup, but I was in an apartment, and could never get very good range, you can read the original article here My
My Lab Power Setup A lot of people wanted to know what UPS's and PDU's I am running, and where. Here are all the details I would highly suggest you read my post on
Join my Discord Server (Or don't, I'm not your boss) I made a discord server, it has no real topic. Join if you want, invite people to join, whatever you want. There are no rules, because I hate rules. https:
Unconditioned Texas Garage Lab - 1 year later (Its all fine) A little over a year ago I mounted a rack in my garage, threw a Cisco Switch in there, an APC UPS and my Flight Tracking setup, and a second
Load Testing USB Chargers and Cables A while ago when I got some Raspberry Pi's, I had a ton of issues with power. I bought a YZXStudio USB power meter/analyzer and a USB load tester,
TinyPilot - An Open Source KVM Over IP DISCLAIMER! - This device was sent to me free of charge from the owner, Michael, who is a redditor and saw some of my other posts and sent me one
New Hobby - Flying I have decided to get my Private Pilots Licence, for some reason I like to take on very expensive hobbies. So from now on, you may see flight related posts
My whole house Ruckus WiFi setup When I moved into my new home, I expanded my existing Ruckus setup to give me coverage across my entire property. Here is all the details of that setup and
Cyberpower UPS's - Try something else... This is now the fourth time I have come across these issues with a Cyberpower UPS. It means your UPS really isn't a UPS, so you may want to think
Bullshit Advertising Requests #1 I am going to start to post all of the crappy, spammy and scummy advertising requests I get here, lets kick the first one of with one from CONsumer advocate dot org (I broke that up to not give them more publicity!) I got
Full Lab Details - September 2020 After posting the full lab history post, a lot of people wanted details on what I do with everything in my home server rack. Here are the full details. I
Homelab 9 Year Homelab history in pictures Since 2012 I have been interested in servers and networking, and started running them at home. Here is a history of changes over the years I don't have full explanations of everything, but ill try to mention things as I go. You will have
Home Server Room Power Upgrade + Multi-room UPS This post shows how I upgraded the power delivery to my home server room, as well as installing the infrastructure to replace 5 UPS's around my house with just one
Private Internet Access VPN on pfSense (Updated 08/2020) This guide has been updated to reflect changes made on PIA's end that stops the old guide from workingIf you have followed my old guide and now have a non-working
Blue Iris NVR - Off-site clip syncing Blue Iris is a great NVR solution, but its extremely lacking as FTP is its only native off-site clip exporting protocol. Here is how I made that work for me
My Backup Plan & Lessons learned I've posted about my backup plan before, but a lot of things have changed, and I have learned a lot about what works, and what doesn't work for me. Skip
Archiving data to LTO Tape for long term storage and backups This is the second part to my data archiving efforts, the first part was using M-DISC's which you can read about HERE The Tape HardwareI have been looking for a
Running 8 x CAT6a drops to media center area Since I moved into my home I have been using wireless until I got this done, and it meant that streaming 4k movies across the network was almost impossible. I
Watchdog 15-P PoE Powered server closet environmental monitoring I knew my server closet was too warm, but I new knew just how warm it was. I got a Geist/Vertiv Watchdog 15-P environmental monitor that does temperature, humidity
Registering an Intex Mariner 4 to use a Trolling motor in Texas There was zero instruction for doing this, so I figured I would show how I filled out form PWD 143 in the year 2018