SmartHome – Heatmiser

Robert AndresenInternet of things, Reviews 2 Comments

In September, I received my floor thermostat from Heatmiser, neoKit-e. I replaced my old standard bathroom thermostat with my new neoStat-e, here in Norway. I have had some positive experience with the heatmiser thermostat earlier, as my brother has two of them on his cabin in Sweden. The heatmiser neoStat is a “smart” thermostat that can be controlled by your …

Telldus Znet Lite – Unboxing and connecting

Robert AndresenInternet of things, Reviews 9 Comments

Today I received my Telldus Znet Lite! I’m not really sure why I bought this, as I already have an Telldus Net. But my passion for home-automation could not resist 🙂 So, what is Telldus Znet Lite? It’s a little box that sends and receive wireless signals to different devices in your home, and let you control these devices from your …

Centos7 – Something filling up the disk space

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When a webserver uses 100% of the diskspace, there is not enough space to create a session in PHP. In other words people cannot login to your web-application. I had some problems with the httpd logs (/var/log/httpd) over some time with one single webserver. The access log can take up to mulitple gigabytes. After deleting the logs, everything worked fine. After …

Linux Cockpit (Fedora 23 and CentOS 7)

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  Today I installed and tested Fedora Server 23. This version of Fedora comes with cockpit, which are a web-interface for server monitoring. I have mostly used CentOS up to now, but Fedora looks more interesting for the reasons I will mention below. To add my CentOS servers to the Cockpit monitoring, I need to install Cockpit on them as well. Setting up …

New computer

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Since my last computer broke down, I have been borrowing a small Dell-computer from work. This had a Intel i5 CPU and 128GB SSD. No mechanical HDD or graphic card wasn’t really a problem when just developing with an text editor. …But then I bought a Drone and started with video-editing… I also started playing some Counter-Strike GO with my …

Video surveillance software

Robert AndresenInternet of things, Reviews 6 Comments

In the last days, I’ve been hunting for alternative surveillance software for iSpy. It has been a fun ride through the Internet! Some of the software’s i visited was: iSpy, Synology, Netcam Studio, Webcam XP, go1984, Yawcam, Contacam, Sighthound Video, Ubiquiti, HomeGuard, TinCam, TeboCam, Security monitor pro, Genius Vision, iVideon, NetCamCenter, Smartvue, CameraFTP, Blue Iris and Xeoma webcam. Some tips …