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Daniel Everitt

Farther of two boys, BBQ enthusiast, Fixer of broken computery things / backup infrastructures.

A plate for buttermilk pancakes, with a serving of blueberries and sliced bananas

BUTTERMILK PANCAKES

Mainly posting this here as the recipe worked out great and mainly just for me to remember for next time...

A dark wooden standing desk, with multiple screens a tablet, keyboard and mouse within a grey and white walled office

A Game-Changer for My Workspace - The EQ5 Dual Motor Standing Desk!

I've been the proud owner of the Flexispot EQ5 standing desk for over two and a half years now, and it has been nothing short of exceptional. With its dual motors, impressive lifting capacity, and versatile height range, this standing desk has transformed my work and productivity. In this review,

Unlocking DS1522+ NVME Volume Capabilities

With the recent announcement of DSM 7.2 being released I was really looking forward to see that Synology has enabled the capability of creating M.2 storage volumes on the DS1522+. Along with a long list of other amazing features that you can find here. But there was a

Updating the Sonoff ZigBee Plus Dongle

Whilst using Home assistant on the new Optiplex hardware I recently came acquired (read up on that here), I noticed that my Sonoff Zigbee Plus dongle wasn't working as good as my previously used Conbee II dongle. I have had this Sonoff Zigbee dongle for a while since my Dotnetsheff

MORE POWERRRR!!!

MORE POWERRRR!!!

It's safe to say, that I have been an avid user of Home Assistant (HA) for a quite a while now. I have even spoke about it at a Dotnetsheff user group. Possibly over the last 2 -3 years I have running HA on a Raspberry Pi 4 4GB and

Safe sleeping notifications

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Safe sleeping notifications

Simple demonstration on to automate safe sleeping notifications with Home Assistant

Post talk write up

Last Tuesday (5th July 2022), I spoke at Dotnetsheff for the time. I've been co-hosting with @kevbite for quite some years, but after many post-event talks in the pub, it was finally my time. I spoke about all things home automation, with a brief entry into the world of it

Fix Kindle Fire HD 10 "moisture in charging port"

Currently 4 days in to travleing with Beth and the boys, we are down on the west coast of England in Hayle not far from St Ives and Georges tablet (a Kindle Fire HD 10) has started to fail to charge. We use this tablet alot in the car to

Coming soon

This is Smart Side Home Automations, a brand new site by Daniel Everitt that's just getting started. Things will be up and running here shortly, but you can subscribe in the meantime if you'd like to stay up to date and receive emails when new content is published!

Home Assistant, InfluxDB & Grafana

Intro For some time now I’ve been using Home Assistant [https://www.home-assistant.io/], there is some really great designs and inspiration in the community, mine though… It’s just thrown on one of my many pi’s in the rack at the back of my office. Within here