Recently, I purchased an NVMe drive and USB enclosure to do on-site backups of some large files from my Apple M3 Pro. The chipset is JMS-583. It gives around 1Gb/second transfer speed, which is not…| smallhacks
About IONOS VPS IONOS provides cheap Linux VPS hosting with full root access and unlimited traffic. It also provides a KVM console to administer out-of-band if needed. The only problem is that it d…| smallhacks
One of my old home automation boards running ebusd is still using Raspberry PI 1 B SoC. FreeBSD is still perfectly supporting this hardware, however, due to being a Tier-2 platform, binary updates …| smallhacks
In my living area power outages are not common, however, they may happens in the middle of the meeting and also sometime there are series of on/off events, what is quit disruptive for the home netw…| smallhacks
As I am (still) using a gas boiler I need to monitor gas leakage to ensure that if it happens I am aware before it caused any damage. In the past, I was using "dumb" sensors with only sou…| smallhacks
Recently my energy counter was upgraded to ZPA ZE314. I found that reading data with IEC 62056-61 (OBIS) still works as expected, the only difference is that now I need to send not only ‘\x2F…| smallhacks
Why to do that way I had an old and long-time unused DSL router TP-Link TD-W8970B v1 collecting dust on my shelf. And USB LTE dongle from Huawei, E3372H which I rarely used as a backup connection. …| smallhacks
After upgrading to Mac M1 I decided to run FreeBSD virtually. As VirtualBox is not supported on this host (and likely will never be) QEMU was the only possible choice. I found great gist post on ho…| smallhacks
Some time ago my DHT22 sensor, connected to the RPi1, died (humidity always was showing 99%), so I decided to replace it. I found a cheap AM2320 sensor that was in the same case as my old DHT, so I…| smallhacks
Recently one of my house switches with PoE devices connected decided to die. Status LED was blinking and no PoE was supplied to devices. I replaced it (as it is hard to live without internet these …| smallhacks
