So I've struggled some time with getting the KY-037 and KY-038 sensors working for ambent sound detection/tracking in ESPHome. These sensors seem to lack sensitivity to be used for anything short of detecting alarms or really loud sounds.
I wanted to build a device to measure the general noise in...
Looking waaay back to the blog post about setting up NFS for filesharing with Windows clients, I find it necessary to apologize for misleading my two faithful readers. I'm sorry!
In the beginning, it seemed easy to share files over NFS and it worked really well - until I noticed the craziness...
NFS is a great way to share files across a computer network. If you have a Ubuntu 18.04 server and want to share files to Windows 10 Pro or Enterprise clients (or Linux based clients), you've come to the right place.
Some time ago, I bought a Synology NAS because Synology has a nice app that can...
Docker is great for deploying apps in a consistent manner at great speed. If you've got your configuration backed up, it's also pretty easy to replicate a docker stack on completely new hardware in a matter of minutes.
However, Docker isn't just about configuration. It's also about data. Your Dock...
Have you ever attached an external hard drive to a Linux server or a Raspberry Pi? An external drive comes in handy to expand storage capacity, but they are also very easy to steal or otherwise become lost. The very first thing you should do when attaching an external hard drive, is to encrypt it!
...Traditionally, I've been storing my passwords in text-files in a more or less secure location. Not long ago, I transitioned to KeePass, but found it old fashioned and generally cumbersome. Especially the fact that the database is a single file makes it difficult to add and update passwords if you ar...