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After a power failure today, my ESXi server didn’t boot. I ran my ESXi installation from an USB-stick and the screen just went to black when trying to boot from it. As my setup is almost default, the easiest fix is just to re-install it from scratch. Getting newest available version of ESXi Look like VMware is still greedy and …

Buying Reolink Argus 2 for off-grid mount on cabin in the woods.

I installed Home Assistant on a old computer with Ubuntu server back in 2016. Lately they have released Hass.io, HassOS and changed the name of the basic Home Assistant to Home Assistant Core… I think… There has been a lot of names to keep track on here. I believe I had Home Assistant Core and migrated to HassOS/Hass.io now. My …

My Roborock started to make some weird noises. Sounded like the start of a broken fan/motor. I googled a bit, and found that I was not the first one. I found a similar problem from another person that uploaded a video on YouTube. I contacted Xiaomi support and got this response 40 minutes later: You could try methods below.1. Empty …

I have been using cameras at home since late 90’s, mostly for fun. When we bought a house in 2011, the usage changed. I started with a camera to check if the garage door was open or closed, then a weather-camera, then a camera in the stable to check on the horses and so on.

Last week I switched my router from Sophos XG to Ubiquiti (UBNT) USG (UniFi Security Gateway). The setup The setup was a bit tricky. First I tried to plug it in my existing network with a laptop connected to the LAN-port. I could reach the USG, but as most of the configuration is done in the UniFi-controller, I just had …

I was so impressed with this car-stereo/player that I have to write some few words about it 🙂 First a little history We have an old Volvo V40 (2000-mod). The default car-stereo has radio, cd and cassette, which is not that bad for this old car. In the first 6 months of this year (2017), Norway has switched from radio/FM …

I wanted to test a camera with WiFi this time for easier placement, so I bought two different cameras – one from Ebay and the other from Alibaba. It was not before I got the packages that I realized they were basically the same cameras. Both cameras is branded HJT and it looks like they have the same firmware. The …

Info: My blog has now moved from robertan.com to robert.stadsbygd.net. A little history: For about 15 years ago I registered a modem dialup connection with the username robert, but something went wrong. I tried a new user with the username roberta… I can’t really remember why, but I ended up with the username robertan in the end. So my first …

I have used Sophos XG at home for about one week now, and I could not have been happier 🙂 For the last year I have tried most of the software firewalls out there, but let’s face it, I am a home user – I need a simple and nice GUI! It does not matter how great a functionality is, if you …

I just got my Tellstick ZNet Lite v2 that I bought from Netonnet for 1290 NOK. I also have the first Znet Lite, so this isn’t the biggest upgrade for me. I only bought it because it can send and receive 433 MHz, so now I can replace my old Tellstick Net and Znet Lite with just this one box.

Alternative #1: Use the webpage https://www.messenger.com/. Alternative #2: Download the unofficial Messenger for desktop app, https://messengerfordesktop.com/. This is actually the webpage in a shell. This is based on a open source project. But the page tries to push some other apps on you now, so I’m running away from this app 🙁 My recommendation, Alternative #3: Use the Windows app by Facebook, https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/p/messenger/9wzdncrf0083.

I have had a lot of problems with the Facebook advertising earlier. When advertising a 100% Norwegian page, to the local community, I got a lot of foreigners that has no relation to the page or product at all. Why? I found a video that has an explanation today: It have been running a lot of advertising the last months …

Finally, VisionLAN 2016 is ready for launch! It’s been 8 years since last time 🙁 VisonLAN is a LAN-party / E-sport event, that I and some friends are hosting 14.-16. october. Location: Rissahallen, Rissa municipality, Norway Start: Friday, 14. october 2016 End: Sunday, 16. october 2016 Participants: Max 300 I’m just about to finish the development of the ticket-system, so …

My last Pi’s was one of the first ones (2x USB) from around 2012/13. I just bought the new Pi 3, but not all was straight forward… First of all, the filesystem is limited to 3,5 GB of my 16GB SD Card – after creating it with the Win32 Disk Imager and the default Raspbian image. «df -h» shows that …

You are probably asking yourself how these two can be compared, and I will try to elaborate in this article. Let’s start with something else, the Apple iPhone. When the iPhone was released, people always got the new iOS. It didn’t really matter if Apple released one, two or three new iPhones after yours – you still got the latest …

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 …

Sparebank 1 (a Norwegian bank) has released a “wristwatch”-bank app for the Pebble smartwatch (named “klokkebank”). It’s a few weeks since they published some news about this, but it seems it took some time to get the iOS companion app to be approved. On 5. december, the iOS app was finally released. I tried the app for the first time …

Jeg har egentlig vært fan av dustin.no siden de ble lansert i Norge. Komplett.no så ut til å bli dyrere og dyrere, mens Dustin holdt seg billigere. Men i det siste halvåret har jeg opplevd ustabile priser og enkelte varer som er sterkt overpriset på Dustin. Når har det gått flere måneder med dette, noe som ikke tyder på midlertidig problemer …

Fredag 12.09.2014 tok vi turen til Fevåg for å se på bl.a. lekteren Crete Joist. En betongbåt som strandet 20. februar 1943. På turen hadde jeg DJI Phantom 2 dronen min. Jeg tok i tillegg noen bilder med min midlertidige («crappy») LG telefon, som merkelig nok i 2014 har et fantastisk dårlig kamera.

I 1963 drev Erasto B. Mpemba fra Tanzania og frøs ned iskrem som han hadde laget på skolen sin. Han oppdaget da at de varme blandingene hans frøs før de kalde blandingene. Han stilte seg da spørsmålet om hva som fryser først av varmt eller kaldt vann. Senere hadde Mpemba møtt en venn fra Tanga som solgte iskrem, og han fortalte at …

Denne artikkelen er viderepublisert fra min tidligere nettside/blogg, da den er/var en av de mest leste. Artikkelen er opprinnelig publisert 20.11.2012! Nå er vår sønn snart 9 måneder og vi har startet jakten på en ny bilstol. Noe som ikke viser seg å være enkelt i jungelen som finnes der ute. Vi har ikke kjøpt noe enda, så hvilket som …

Denne artikkelen er viderepublisert fra min tidligere nettside/blogg, da den er/var en av de mest leste. Artikkelen er opprinnelig publisert 20.08.2011! Det er stor forskjell på vaskepulver når man skal vaske klær. Din side testet det dyreste pulveret til 1,73 kr pr. vask mot det billigste 0,42 pr. vask. Om du vasker klærne dine med det dyreste, så koster dette nesten …

Denne artikkelen er viderepublisert fra min tidligere nettside/blogg, da den er/var en av de mest leste. Artikkelen er opprinnelig publisert 2007, men fagprøver har vel ikke endret seg så mye siden den gang (?), så artikkelen kan sikkert være behjelpelig hos mange andre for å se hvordan jeg utførte bl.a. min dokumentasjon! Fag: Produksjonselektronikker Sted: Lyng Elektronikk Start: Mandag 18. …

Etter lange tider med mye utvikling og svært lite blogging, har jeg nå bestemt meg for å gjøre et forsøk igjen. Jeg har lenge forsøkt å oppdatere rammeverket på min gamle hjemmeside, men finner rett og slett ikke tid til det. Innen jeg rekker å gjøre et forsøk, så er koden jeg startet på allerede utdatert. Så da prøver jeg …