Going back to Windows
I’ve heard the saying that once you go Mac you never go back… well, I went back…
Posts by seanb
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…
Zoneminder object detection
It’s hard to eliminate false positives in motion detecting security cameras without also missing genuine events. Some expensive security cameras offer a solution – object detection…
Zoneminder setup
Following on from my last post, I’m going to talk about how I’ve linked Zoneminder and Home Assistant with the assistance of zmEventNotification. This week I’ll start with getting Zoneminder configured.,,
Zoneminder – a love/hate relationship
I have something of a love/hate relationship with Zoneminder. On the plus side, it’s probably the most comprehensive and full featured open source CCTV system for Linux…
Rebuilding my home server
Have you ever had the urge to reinstall a machine from scratch? Maybe you’ve found a better way to do something and feel a clean install would be a good idea?
Samsung challenge: Galaxy Buds
Not exactly the Samsung software challenge, but hardware this time. I’m reviewing the Galaxy Buds that came as a freebie with my S10+ pre-order…
Finance Project 7: Starting the UI
When I’m building web apps I like to get the look and feel in place while I’m developing…
Samsung software challenge: payments
When I got the S10+, I decided to go all in on Samsung software for a while. First up for analysis is contactless payment using Samsung Pay…