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Seven mornings and one evening of listening at Baan Sansuk, Hua Hin A reader replied, under one of my photos, that if Merlin was not performing well in Thailand I should try BirdNET Live. Seven days later I had thirty-two listening …
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Local network built on Ubiquiti’s Unifi range. (sketch annotated in French) In the utility room rack, four stacked boxes run the entire network of the house: at the bottom the UNVR video recorder, above it the UDM-Pro with its disk …
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The chimney on the roof, the sensor on the railing, and the three metres between them. (sketch annotated in French) Ever since I started measuring air quality at home, I kept seeing particulate spikes I couldn’t account for. They …
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Home automation network built on Somfy products and Home Assistant. (sketch annotated in French) Three home automation hubs are running in my house, and not one of them replaced the previous one: the Somfy Tahoma since 2016, the Homey Pro …
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Roon server on a mini-PC, and the multiroom system it feeds. (sketch annotated in French) My Roon music server has now been quietly running in a corner for 4 years, with no real issues beyond the occasional update. A good excuse to finally …
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Update, 25 October 2026: the Kerroch house has been sold. The station stayed where it was, with the buyer, and I disconnected it from every site, public and private. This article therefore describes a setup that ran for three years, from …
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Update, 25 October 2026: the Kerroch house has been sold. The solar installation and the battery stayed where they were, with the buyer. This article therefore describes a project that produced from April 2023 to the summer of 2026. Here is …
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Update, 25 October 2026: the Kerroch house has been sold. The station stayed where it was, with the buyer, and I disconnected it from every site, public and private. The links to live data no longer respond, and this article has become the …
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Home photo printing is becoming more affordable with the new ink-tank printers. For photography enthusiasts who want to see the process through to the end and finally hold the finished print in their hands. Over the years, photos pile up …
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