Recent content by Waynedb

I have in the past but I will with the new 8 bay n150 box when I get all my drives, I haven't decided yet it what to do with the cold storage box, the Synology uses BTRFS and I am using their version of Raid 6. I will probably use ZFS with 3 drive redundancy on the 8 bay NAS, it will have 8...

I buy most anything I really want to see on disk if it is available, for kodi I use CoreElec but not the latest version, I follow the Ugoos AM6B+ thread on AVS Forum. I checked Ebay recently and people are selling the Ugoos box for a lot more than I bought mine for.

The WD Gold drives I have been buying are enterprise drives, I have been using them ever since HGST disappeared from the market, I think the tech was split between WD and Toshiba. I used to run a 12 bay server with smaller drives, it was a Lenovo server board in a Rosewill case, I used LSI...

The last time I bought Hard Drives for a NAS I bought Western Digital 16TB Gold drives for $300 each, now they are $400 direct from Western Digital. I saw a post somewhere today about Western Digital saying they sold their entire 2026 production already. AI Data Centers are making a mess of...

I run CumulusMX on a Pi getting data from a Vantage Vue, I have my Davis Vantage Pro 2 weather station directly connected to Home Assistant. My Home Assistant PC is a micro form factor i5-12500t Dell Optiplex 5000. I want to run a local AI with Home Assistant but haven't done it yet, I have been...

I remember when you built the Silverstone case NAS, I commented on it many years ago and if I remember correctly the 3D printed deflector was designed by the guy I bought the motherboard from. I had problems with temps on the drives until I did the deflectors and I moved the side 120mm fans to...

I have been using the Unfolded Circle remotes for awhile now, I have both the Remote 2 and the Remote 3, they have been working well for me and even the microphone is now working for voice commands to Home Assistant. I ripped out all my old URC stuff and only ever use one MX-990 if I need to...

I am upgrading one of my old NAS systems to new hardware, getting rid of the badly designed Silverstone 8 bay case and replacing it with a generic 8 bay case i found on EBAY, it is very similar in size but it pulls air though the drive bays. I got an 8 bay n150 based motherboard to go with the...

Maybe it's just me but I am not putting a tablet on the wall that has fire in the name.

The Crestron panel takes too long to open the Home Assistant dashboard out of the screensaver, my URC mini touchscreen was ready the second you touched the display, it was cheap so I didn't lose much. I will replace it when I finish my other projects. I most likely will put my URC KP-4000 back...

I saw where some people were using a Raspberry Pi with a POE hat, I did install one of the Crestron panels today, it was an easy swap for my old URC touchscreen.

While looking on Youtube for In-wall touchscreens I saw a video on someone using a Crestron TSS-1060 B S touchscreen for Home Assistant. I found someone selling them on Ebay for $45 with the surface mount mounting bracket, I order a couple to play with and they came yesterday, it seems to be...

The URC KP-4000 touchscreens I have now are even smaller than the NS Panel Pro, they do have Hard buttons surrounding the screen though. I am looking for an around 10"- 12" screen that sets in flush with the wall. I see people recommending Fully Kiosk to run on Android for automation use.

I have been using URC remotes for a very long time, they are not too hard to program but the world is passing by IR only type remotes, they have some newer models but I am no longer interested. I have a couple of the URC MX-6000 remotes with wifi but the screens are low resolution and the...

I am not sure what ones I will go with, they are not normal consumer items so finding lists of available models is harder. I am thinking about contacting this site https://geekland.co/?gad_source=5 to make sure the POE models don't have a battery, right now I am working on some other projects so...