Unraid: Set up Nextcloud with Mariadb

Nextcloud- Fixing your MariaDB connection Error in Unraid

Following on from my post on how to set up external drives in Unraid, I wanted to write up my solution for getting around a persistent error I kept running into when trying to install Nextcloud. The Problem I followed the tutorials online to the …

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Dusun: IOT Home-Assistant Gateway – Unbox, Set up & Review

Dusun: IOT Home-Assistant Gateway - Unbox, Set up & Review

In this post, I am going to review the Dusun Smart Gateway, from the initial unboxing to set up and my final thoughts. TL:DR – lot’s of potential, but only in the hands of someone with some serious Linux-Fu! So towards the end of last …

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Violet SmartSwitch Lite: Home-Assistant & Node-red Integration

Integrating a Violet Smart Switch into Node-red and Home-Assistant

So a couple of days ago, Ryan from Violet reached out to me to let me know that the main feature that I was waiting for on their smart switch had been released and was out in the wild. It was now possible to integrate …

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