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Our Sunday livestream lost all 62 viewers because the streaming Mac quietly exhausted its kernel network buffers after 62 days of uptime. Here is the diagnosis and the LaunchDaemon that now reboots our ProPresenter and OBS hosts cleanly every week. Continue reading →
Our Midas DL32 stage box had been making a loud, steady hum since boot-up, and the fault LED on the back panel was glowing red. The culprit: a failing fan bearing. Here’s how we replaced it with a Noctua NF-A6x25 … Continue reading →
A deep dive into debugging and fixing two-way audio playback on Dahua/Lorex IP cameras through Home Assistant, using spectrogram analysis to diagnose and fix frame pacing issues in the RTSP backchannel. Continue reading →
I built an MCP server for managing Dahua and Amcrest IP cameras. It wraps the Dahua CGI HTTP API so that AI assistants like Claude can directly query, configure, and troubleshoot cameras through natural conversation. Why If you’ve ever managed … Continue reading →
How we cleaned up a ProPresenter media library, removing duplicates, old content, and fixing broken media paths after a username change. Continue reading →
After an in-place upgrade bricked a headless Pi, I switched to a clean install strategy: flash a new SD card, configure it headless, and keep the old card as a fallback. This post documents the process for two Pi Zero W boards. Continue reading →
I run a Raspberry Pi in my unheated garage, wired to a garage door controller via Z-Wave. No monitor, no keyboard — just SSH. So when a botched OS upgrade killed SSH, I had to get creative. The Setup The … Continue reading →
I’ve been learning about AI and computer vision with my Jetson Nano. I’m hoping to have it use my cameras to improve my home automation. Ultimately, I want to install external security cameras which will detect and scare off the … Continue reading →
I run SmartThings and Konneced for my home automation. I decided I could get some data on my boiler and hot water usage by monitoring the pipe temperatures with some cheap DS18B20 probes off Amazon. Parts:DS18B20 Five for $11.99 on … Continue reading →
My wife asked for us to have an air freshener installed in the bathroom. I don’t like the plug in types, even if they don’t burn your house down. At my office we have air fresheners which run on a … Continue reading →