Our second test session at Rye House was a partial success but with a lot of learning opportunities. We found more problems with the kart. marklewis.blog/2021/07/24/se…
After the test session, we realised some work needed to be done on the kart. This post outlines what we did. marklewis.blog/2021/07/08/fi…
Review of Round 2 of the Rookie Cup held at Rye House that my eldest took part in. marklewis.blog/2021/07/06/ry…
After buying a kart on a bit of a whim, we gave it a check over before heading over to Rye House to give it a shakedown, learn and see how it goes. marklewis.blog/2021/06/29/fi…
The eldest decided to return to karting. This post goes catches up on where we are now up to with it all. marklewis.blog/2021/06/23/re…
Decided to build myself a new PC, not done it for a while, want to do more. marklewis.blog/2021/06/17/bu…
Automation of a light bulb stopped working within Home Assistant. Community helped diagnose the issue. Found a workaround calling the service directly. marklewis.blog/2021/04/29/li…
Switch from Conbee II to Sonoff hub. Switched out the Conbee II Zigbee hub for a Sonoff Zigbee bridge running Tasmota firmware. Gave some thought to network design. Attempted to resolve SNZB-04 issues as well. marklewis.blog/2021/03/13/sw…
Unbox Xiaomi Honeywell Smoke Sensor. Added to Home Assistant and then added some basic automations. Fun, will get some more of these hopefully. marklewis.blog/2021/03/08/xi…
Video unboxing the Xiaomi Motion sensor and adding it to HA, along with pairing and using a Bluetooth speaker! marklewis.blog/2021/02/25/ho…
Sonoff SNZB-04 Unboxing Video and adding it to Home Assistant marklewis.blog/2021/02/20/so…
Dipping my toe in to the world of IoT, home automation and using Home Assistant. marklewis.blog/2021/01/29/io…
All change in the Home Lab, the HP C7000 is being decommissioned. marklewis.blog/2020/11/25/al…
Adding Exchange Server 2019 to the Lab, Published via HAProxy in Layer 4 mode, LetsEncrypt Certificate on IIS. marklewis.blog/2020/11/06/ad…
Ubiquiti Journey Part 2. Installing the equipment, setting it up, lessons learnt and Sky Q issues. marklewis.blog/2020/07/13/ub…
Ubiquiti Journey Part 1, setting up the controller ready for the hardware. marklewis.blog/2020/07/09/ub…
Home and Lab Network Infrastructure, reviewing then planning a massive upgrade and overhaul. marklewis.blog/2020/07/07/ho…
Monitoring Active Directory is a vital task to detect issues before they impact users. Some older protocols are known to be insecure, so lets identify them so we can rectify them. marklewis.blog/2020/05/09/ad…