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  • Increasing / for a VM in proxmox

    Increasing / for a VM in proxmox

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    It happens, a lot, you provision a VM, and find out later, it would be nice if the service running on it had more space. Well, here’s the skinny. Resize Hard Disk We will presume you know how to associate the Hard Disk that is associated to the /dev/sdx you are wanting to increase. Under…

  • Updating domain to Saint Tessy’s services

    Updating domain to Saint Tessy’s services

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    Proxy WWW Google Home Integration Pihole Update local DNS records to point domain to private IPv4 address. Cleanup

  • Motioneye on Rasp 4

    Motioneye on Rasp 4

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    Having issues trying to process 3 video streams with a pc, Dad decided to separate the streams and have a Raspberry Pi 4 do the work for each stream. To begin, he first downloaded Raspbian ‘Buster’. He learned in a pilot configuration that he would rather have full control to install anything he needed (e.g.…

  • Swamp Cooler Failure

    Swamp Cooler Failure

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    Yes, that purple line… should not be above the yellow in the summer, when my swamp cooler is suppose to act as a cooler. But before I discuss that, I want to talk about how I began graphing these data points. It all started when dad bought a z-wave sensor that would tell smartthings: motion,…

  • The New Frontier… 4K

    The New Frontier… 4K

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    This all started when I received my first UHD BluRay disk. I was excited… I’ve always been a proponent of keeping content in the native resolution as the viewer’s screen and finally, I got a movie that from cradle to grave… is in 4K resolution. The first step is to rip it. I’ve quickly learned…

  • Pi-hole!

    Pi-hole!

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    Since the family is out of the house, Dad thought it would be non-consequential to offload the home network’s DNS requests from the router to an independent server. This idea has been a ‘stuck thought’ in my mind for a while as a colleague of mine, (I’m talking about you Scoot!) have been praising openDNS’s…

  • Let’s Encrypt auto renewal

    Let’s Encrypt auto renewal

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    First, I would suggest looking for all the commands to your specific setup here. But since I am running a combination of things that aren’t listed on that page, I had to dig elsewhere. Centos 7 should have epel already enabled but if not… Configure certbot with your specific setup Note: I don’t have a…