Hardware

Script White Light Temperature for an Osram SMART+ with DeCONZ and Home Assistant

laur
March 14

Today I got finally the DeConz stick to control my first smart bulb, am OSRAM SMART+ RGB one. I’ve set up a number of simple… Read More »

apt-key adv – Fix ‘Server indicated a failure’ on Raspberry Pi

laur
March 11March 11

I’ve been trying to install snips.ai to play with speech recognition. Unfortunately, when executing: I’ve got the following error message: [crayon-5d5bab4290bec362954753/] This is quite unfortunate… Read More »

Fix Empty `adb devices -l` with Samsung S9 (and S9+)

laur
December 6

TL;DR: Clean up any mobile phone drivers you have and install Samsung’s ones. I wanted to update to the beta UI package. One method is… Read More »Fix Empty adb devices -l with Samsung S9 (and S9+)

Messy rig

laur
October 4October 3

My current rig has: 1 x Vega 56 blower 1 x EVGA FTW2 1070 3 x RX580 Nitro + 1 x RX580 Red Devil It’s… Read More »

Vega 56 and ETH – Keep Your Cool(er)

laur
October 3October 5

Following my writing, I’ve rearranged my rig to have the Vega card on one edge (where the intake fan would get “fresh” air from the… Read More »

Vega 56 and ETH – Keep Your Cool

laur
September 18October 5
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TL;DR: Keep your Vega cool if you want high hash rates! Recently, I’ve got a AMD Vega RX 56, to see for myself how good… Read More »

Mining Rig Build Log – 1

laur
September 1October 5

I’ve decided to join the recent trend of mining cryptocoins with GPUs. First, I got a GPU (an EVGA 1070) to complement my 970 and… Read More »

SoundMachine Build Log 02

laur
June 23October 5

I’ve decided to put in a knob to control the volume directly on the box itself. It will be controlled by volumio itself via a… Read More »

SoundMachine
Build Log 01

laur
June 15October 5

A while ago I’ve decided to try my hand at replacing my Sonos system with a DIY version of a sound system. I have two… Read More »

HifiBerry Pin Usage

laur
June 13October 5

The past few days I’ve been struggling with the unknown of how many pins from the GPIO interface are actually used by the HifiBerry sound… Read More »