Sonos and UniFi

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After using two workdays to configure four Sonos speakers for a youth club at work, I found that Sonos has big issues with their onboarding. There are several of forums with problems around Sonos and UniFi-network, but I think this is more a Sonos- or timing-issue, than a network issue. I gave up the Sonos Beam the first day, after …

Housegard Note – An update

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It is about 5 months since i wrote Housegard Note – Smokealarm (it works, kinda). I can happily say that we have had no fire in the house since I started to test these – but there have not been any false alarms either. I bought this for testing when we started renovating an apartment in the basement. As the …

Get PHP Intellisens to work in Visual Studio Code, on Windows 10

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Step 1: Download PHP Download PHP from here: https://www.php.net/downloads.php, click on Windows downloads. I just downloaded the .zip file at the top: VC15 x64 Non Thread Safe (2020-Mar-17 16:16:15)Zip [24.78MB]sha256: 1a1a90e07dfcc3b5b0f1847c2de58c7bf5386e5dd4616d680fe8bee27a24985e Extract .zip file I extracted it to C:/data/php-7.4.4-nts-Win32-vc15-x64 Step 2: Add environment path I found this article with some nice images: https://www.forevolve.com/en/articles/2016/10/27/how-to-add-your-php-runtime-directory-to-your-windows-10-path-environment-variable/ Basically you have to: Go to System …

Xiaomi Roborock weird noises

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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 …

Disk on Home Assistant almost full

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For a long time, the disk on Home Assistant box has been slowly filling up. I found that is was the MySQL DB docker container that took up all the space. My setup My Home Assistant runs in docker on an old Dell 7010 with Ubuntu 18.04. Data is recorded in another MySQL docker container. The HA container is running …