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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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Ever since I started measuring air quality at home, I kept seeing particulate spikes I couldn’t account for. They didn’t last, they came back with no obvious pattern, and I couldn’t see what might be causing them. I …
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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 and connections, then a 24-port switch, and finally a fibre aggregation switch. …
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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 2023, and Home Assistant 2025 installed on a Raspberry Pi 5. Ten years of gradual additions, each …
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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 write the article I started 4 years ago and never finished: what Roon actually is, how I …
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My weather station has now been running on my flat roof deck in Kerroch for 3 years. A good excuse to go back to basics: what’s actually inside a Davis Instruments Vantage Pro 2, how the data makes its way up to the Weatherlink …
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Study started: February 2023. Project completed: 30 November 2023. (updated June 2024). Project goals: I want to maximise self-consumption from the start of the project, but the system needs to be extensible, with the possibility of adding …
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I’ve become passionate over the past few years about weather observation. I chose the Vantage Pro 2 from Davis Instruments, known for its reliability. I chose to install it on my flat roof deck for convenience (very easy to access, …
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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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