Random tech topics I find interesting to share
I’ve been using Home Assistant for a while now. It is not ideal, but it does work and you can pretty much make it do anything you need for your home automation. My HA runs on a Raspberry Pi4, and I use a CC2531 ZigBee USB dongle to communicate with the Ikea and Philips lights,…
Pi-hole is the best way to get rid of all the ads on all of your devices on your local network. You set it up as your DNS server and it blackholes all the requests for ad servers. No more ads on your network!
To my surprise I found that there’s no usable unrar command on my RaspberryPi. I run Raspbian on it and it so happens that I wanted to unpack a rather large rar file. The unrar-free package is not good enough for some archives, so that is not an option. So how to get a working…