So, this is a pretty niche solution, but I found it to be an interesting project to do. I thought it would be cool if my outdoor Hikvision PoE cameras displayed the current temperature on the on-screen display. Currently, it…Continue Reading →
Encryption is a hot topic these days. I wanted to learn more about how it actually works. So I decided to make something to encrypt data. One strategy to do this would be to use symmetric encryption. This uses the…Continue Reading →
This is a short one, but I wanted to document this since I figured it out once before and forgot how to do it and had to re-figure it out. I wanted to capture packets directly from my Edgerouter Lite….Continue Reading →
Are you ever annoyed that you have certain devices or self hosted servers that like to use HTTPS but always make you add an exception when connecting for the first time? Don’t you wish you knew you had a secure…Continue Reading →
My house seems to vary a lot when it comes to temperature. Some areas are pretty warm, and others are freezing. Out of curiosity, I wanted to log the average temperature around different parts of my house. Sounds like a…Continue Reading →
It’s a good idea to run your torrent downloads through an anonymous VPN. Unlike Usenet, which runs over SSL, torrents just use regular unencrypted traffic. Your ISP can see what you’re downloading. The MPAA and other officials can see all…Continue Reading →
Now we’ll install Plex! This indexes all the media and allows your devices to stream video from your server. We’ll download Plex into the temporary directory and install some prerequisites. You’ll want to go to the Plex download site, under…Continue Reading →
CouchPotato is like SickBeard, but for movies. It will use torrents to download the files instead of Usenet. We’ll need to download the software into a hidden folder in our home folder. cd ~ git clone https://github.com/RuudBurger/CouchPotatoServer.git .couchpotato Now let’s…Continue Reading →
SickBeard is one of the coolest pieces of this setup. This is what is used to control what TV shows you are subscribed to and will go out and search for NZB files to download. It gets TV show information…Continue Reading →
Now we’ll be installing Transmission. This is a torrent client that has a web front end. First, we need to add transmission to our repository and install it. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:transmissionbt/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install transmission-cli transmission-common transmission-daemon…Continue Reading →