Personal Disaster Recovery
Disaster recovery is a key element of business strategy and it’s not a bad idea to apply some of the same thinking to your personal data…
The 2019 review
It’s that time of year… a quick recap of the tech I’ve used and the projects I’ve been working on…
Maintaining a smart home
It turns out you can’t just set up a smart home and expect everything to keep running smoothly. A certain amount of routine maintenance is essential…
Humble pie and GnuCash
Time for me to eat some humble pie and admit defeat. About a year ago I started a project to write a simple home finance system for myself…
Project Euler
Can you get a more geeky hobby than one which combines maths and computer programming?
Going back to Windows
I’ve heard the saying that once you go Mac you never go back… well, I went back…
Managing Zoneminder notifications with Home Assistant
The last few posts have described how I got Zoneminder working with object detection and configured so that notifications are managed by Home Assistant…
Zoneminder and Home Assistant
I’ve got the excellent zmEventNotification configured but I’m not using it to send notifications directly. Here’s why…