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Welcome to my digital garden where I keep a bunch of notes about life, parenting, and my daily learnings. Feel free to browse and learn with me.
Planned upgrades to my home automation server
Existing hardware profile
Hardware that powers my smart home
CPU
💰 Purchased the Xeon E3-1230v6 processor on 07/21/2023 from eBay.
Reason: Current CPU does not support hyper-threading. Th… Continue reading
Roborock vacuum setup tricks
Troubleshooting
Forget Roborock vacuum wifi network.
Put the phone in airplane mode.
Continue Roborock setup.
References
Stuck on phone connecting to device by u/Angelus230 in Roborock
Devices used in my smart home
Lighting
DevicePurposePhilips Hue Color Ambiance (x20)Light solution for all floor and table lamps.Philips Hue Lightstrip Color Ambiance (x3)Accent lighting solution.Lutron Caseta (… Continue reading
Software that controls my smart home
Unraid
NamePurposeUnraidVirtualization host, docker host.
Unraid → Docker containers
ServicePurposeFrigateLocal NVR.HomepageSelf-hosted start page.InfluxDBTime series databas… Continue reading
Hardware that powers my smart home
Automation Server
DeviceDevice typeAsRock Rack E3C232D2I Mini ITXMotherboardXeon E3-1225 v5CPUKingston 16GB DDR4 ECCRAMMaxsun AMD Radeon RX 550GPUWD Blue SSD 1TBSSDSanDisk 16GB Ultr… Continue reading
Stream a RTSP (non-secure) video feed in Unifi Protect
Solutions
Solution #1
As of May 2022:Home>Protect>Unifi Devices>(select camera)>Settings>Advanced>(toggle which resolution you want)>and then you will get a… Continue reading