Category Archives: Home Automation

Syncing an iPod with Windows Media Player, cutting out iTunes

Posted by dave on May 17, 2012 No comments

I’ve steered clear of the apple stuff for a while, mostly because I thought it was all over priced and now mostly because there’s i-stuff everywhere, everyone has one. I opted for the HTC Desire-S as my mobile of choice a while …

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Axis 2100 Network Camera Repair

Posted by dave on April 18, 2012 No comments

I bought an Axis 2100 camera off the bay the other day, it didn’t have a power supply but was very cheap so I took a gamble with it. I bought an AD-121AD generic power adaptor from the bay too, …

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Linksys DMA2100 Freezing on Boot

Posted by dave on June 11, 2011 No comments

One of my DMA2100’s just would not boot recently. It would turn on, and normally the blue light flashes exactly 20 times before it starts up, but for some reason it just constantly flashed, and as a result, no Family …

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A Hodeghog and a Field Mouse (in the house)

Posted by dave on August 23, 2010 No comments

Another video from my custom built hedgehog house (using ZoneMinder and an IP Camera) The field mouse is already in there when the hedgehog turns up, he’s not worried but I think the little mouse is!

My YouTube Videos of Hedgehogs and Field Mice

Posted by dave on August 4, 2010 No comments

Here are some more of the youtube video’s from my custom built hedgehog house (using ZoneMinder and an IP Camera) This one (below) is pretty cool, the first hedgehog really doesn’t want the second hedgehog to come in, but once …

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ZoneMinder Windows GUI (ZM4MS)

Posted by dave on July 13, 2010 No comments

I stumbled across this yesterday when I was actually looking for something else. I’m pretty happy with standard ZoneMinder WebGUI and so use that quite happily to get access to my cctv system, but this has some advantages. Anyway, The …

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Our first hedgehog!

Posted by dave on May 29, 2010 No comments

We had a vistor last night, a rather large and quite hungry hedgehog. He/She first appeared at 23:11 and then came back again at 03:14. It seemed to really like all the food, the spikes dried hedgehog food and the …

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Installing Ubuntu 10.04 with ZoneMinder 1.24 on Hyper-V

Posted by dave on May 26, 2010 2 comments

I decided I need to cut down the number of servers I run at home, yet again. ZoneMinder currently sits on its own Ubuntu box and so I thought I’d create a Hyper-V server and then create a few VM’s …

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Hedgehog House with IP Camera, the build…

Posted by dave on May 17, 2010 2 comments

At my last house we had a hedgehog that would come into the garden every evening. I first discovered him when he scared the crap out of me when I came out of the garage one night, having just finished …

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