I am busy moving away from my VeraEdge installation to a Home Assistant running on a Raspberry Pi 4. This is because it looks like the maker of the VeraEdge was bought and it is slowly being phased out.
For this I am using the following parts:
Keep your data and accounts safe by using a secure open source password manager to store unique, complex passwords.
Maintaining complex, unique passwords for each site and service you use is among the most common pieces of advice that security professionals provide to the public every year.
Yet no matter …
Android devs
yum install java-1.8.0-openjdk java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel
Download the sdk-tools zip from here
mkdir /opt/android
cd /opt/android
The sdk should go under /opt/android/tools
unzip sdk-tools.zip
sudo chmod a+x $(sudo find . -type f -executable )
Create a …
So we bough a Philips 50PFK6540. This is a 50" TV with Ambi Ligh and Android TV.
One of the things I wanted to do from the very start was to load my own APKs. This was not possible until a recent (2016) update that enabled the "Install from Unknown …
Building signed APK's for Android is easy if you know what you are doing.
This article goes over the preparation steps and the additional build instructions needed to created signed APKs.
First you need to have a keystore. Use this command:
#!/bin/bash
keystore_file="my_key_store.keystore"
key_name="john_doe"
secret …Since now I have a Android TV I put away my HTPC and with that the capability to view DVDs or listen CDs directly.
So I converted my entire CD and DVD library to media files and stored in my home NAS.
Since we are talking hundreds of DVDs and …
Java based:
Programming 2015
Replacment for Make and Autoconf: MakeMe
(If you don't have root but have Android 4+ you can use the command-line program adb from the Android SDK platform tools to make backups via a desktop computer)
Alternative languages:
This is a list of my favorite Android Apps:
So I was looking to replace my analog cordless phones mainly because I wanted to have a centralized way to maintain phonebooks. Right now I have two cordless phone that I have to manually enter phonebook entries on the two handsets independently.
Initially I was thinking of getting …
So finally took the time to re-launch the 0ink web site. This time used more off-the shelf software. So this site is just a another plain wordpress powered site. Actually I have to thank my son for introducing me to wordpress. What happened is that my son, who is only …