Bram's Blog
Another technical blog with how-to's and other tech related posts...Upgrade RPi with SSD
Prepare your RPI 3 First you have to tell the RPI firmware to boot from USB, this feature is disabled and has to be enabled once per raspberry pi. You can do this from SSH by running the following command: echo program_usb_boot_mode=1 | sudo tee -a /boot/config.txt...
LetsEncrypt Renew certificate with DNS challenge
Since LetsEncrypt doesnt support renewal of port 443 you can use the DNS-Challenge if you are not allowed or able to use Port 80. The renew function is not working, however if you own the DNS zone and can edit it is pretty easy to create a new certificate and use a...
MikroTik op KPN met Routed IPTV
Aangezien ik helaas veel problemen had met mijn KPN Experia Box v10a heb ik besloten om een MikroTik RB4011 aan te schaffen en de Experia Box de deur uit te doen. Het heeft me helaas wel wat tijd gekost dit goed aan de praat te krijgen, voor het Routed IPTV stuk...
HomeAssistant upgrade Python to 3.7.3 (venv)
How to upgrade Python venv from 3.5 to 3.7.3 If you are running Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi with Python and manually installed it, you prob are running it in a Virtual Environment (venv) like me. Now with the release of HomeAssistant 0.94, there is a notification...
My Home Assistant project
How does my Home Assistant app looks like? First of all when I started everything was in my configuration.yaml file. As I moved on i decided to split up the configuration to have a better overview and cleaner config when debugging. This is why i started using the:...
How To Home Assistant as Home Automation on Raspberry Pi
I came accross Home Assistant a few days ago and it looks like a nice Home Automation system, so... Lets try! At this point i'm running several apps like Hue, IFTTT, Stringefy to make my home smarter and respond on actions or triggers. As i now came accross Home...
XenServer 6.2 VM’s not starting after Kernel update SOLVED!
VM's die after updating to latest kernel on XenServer Update 29 january 2018 It seems Red Hat has released a new kernel that should fix this issue. The kernel version is: kernel-2.6.32-696.20.1.el6.x86_64 I did quickly deploy an old CentOS version (6.4) on my...
How To fix Windows 10 (Fall Update 2017) not able to connect to SMB share with Guest account
I recently updated my Windows 10 workstation with the Fall update and after the update all seems to work fine. Except when I wanted to play some music on my system that is located on my NAS (freenas). It complained it couldnt find the file. After checking Windows...
HowTo SiriControl with Raspberry Pi 3
We can use Siri for a lot of things on our Apple device, but you can also use Siri to control IoT things that dont have support for HomeKit! This can be done by using SiriControl! SiriControl is a Python script that runs on your Raspberry and polls your Gmail account...
Oomph! arrived
For Christmass i did receive an Oomph, a what?! An Oomp! As i'm a lot on the road for work and i really enjoy a cup of good coffee the Oomph is a great device! From one of my customers I received an Oomph and I did hear of it on Kickstarter. After receiving and...