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"Having unpredictable outcomes and, in the ideal case, all outcomes equally probable."

This is random posts, anything that I want to share with the world and which don't fit into the other categories. It can be anything from pre-experiment tests to one-off ideas that I probably won't do more work on.

I found a great deal on a pair of Tapo C246D cameras recently and couldn't resist picking them up. They are these dual-lens HybridCams that combine a wide-angle view with a motorized telephoto lens in one unit. Getting them integrated into Frigate turned out to be a fun little project, mostly because of some specific authentication quirks and how [...]

My C: drive was screaming for help. Between Docker, several Linux distros, and general dev bloat, the ext4.vhdx file had ballooned to nearly 600GB. Since Windows 11 doesn't have a move button for WSL, I had to do it the manual way. Here is how I moved my Ubuntu instance to my D: drive. All terminal commands are executed in a PowerShell terminal [...]

Since migrating from Google Photos to Immich, I’ve been steadily reclaiming the features I actually used. One of the most glaring omissions was the ability to use my Google Nest Hub as a dynamic photo frame. I wanted a hands-off pipeline: I add a photo to a specific Display album, and it appears on my Hub automatically. No manual casting, no login [...]

The local makerspace has a project for an upcoming light parade that will be held in the old ex-industrial area where we have our space. The idea is to have a bunch of ESP32 devices meshed together with RGB LEDs creating synchronized effects across the parade route. To make this work, I needed some nodes to always be root nodes (connected to the [...]

For several years now I have hade a string of Neopixel RGB Christmas lights in the Christmas tree that was controlled by an old Python script on a Raspberry Pi. Since I would forget how to set it up between Christmases I simply bundled the string and the RPI with the box and just started it up the next year. This year I got some extra Christmas [...]

I came across this bloggpost by Lars Wilderäng that among all the affiliate links (the UPS was nice tho) had a graph of energy price from Nordpool in Home Assistant. He even had the implementation details just to copy and paste. But I was a bit confounded, it looked a bit too complicated, so I made a slimmer version. The version on Lars blog used a [...]

We have a cage for rabbits that we has small plastic hasps that somehow have a tendency to disappear. So on request from my wife I created a handful new ones. Original (white) vs. 3d-printed (green) After a couple of minutes in Fusion360, and 15 minutes in the printer we had a result, and it worked as well, if not better, than the original. Fusion [...]

While trying to get face recognition with Compreface working together with a Nvidia graphics card I got the error: Attempting to run nvidia-container-runtime returns nvidia-container-cli.ldconfig value /usr/sbin/ldconfig is not host-relative (does not start with a '@') error Easy solved by running the following command as root nvidia-ctk config [...]

I have a handful of cheap ESP32 development boards, and some expensive, that all sometimes gives me the error A fatal error occurred: Could not open COM6, the port doesn't exist. But I have found a workaround. The simplest way I found is to start with opening the Serial Monitor (in Arduino IDE) to see the status of the com-port easily. Then unplug [...]

My home server runs Truenas Core, a natural choice since I've been partial towards BSD since I accidentally overwrote my main disk with OpenBSD back in the 90s. To get some ease of mind I want to back up photos and other important files and CrashPlan is (was when I looked last time) the only cloud backup service that ran on Linux and mounted disks [...]

Random

Frigate + Tapo, “wrong user/pass”

Moving the WSL ext4.vhdx to another drive

Automated Immich Photo Frame on Nest Hub

Problems with Forced Mesh Node Status in ESP-IDF

Xmas tree upgrades

Graph Nordpool prices in Home Assistant

Cage hasp

Nvidia in Docker, no @ for ldconfig

Arduino – The port doesn’t exist

Running CrashPlan on Truenas Core