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Migrate Home Assistant from virtual machine to physical server

Migrate Home Assistant from virtual machine to physical server (odroid n2+)

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Some things should just be physical! In this video, I show you how I migrated my home assistant install from a virtual server to a physical one. My physical install is based on the odroid n2+ board. Having Home Assistant running independently gives me peace of mind, that it always works and is not dependent on virtualization

Check my video on how to replace the Sonoff USB Zigbee coordinator with the ethernet-based one from SMLIGHT here.

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Prepare and upgrade pfSense+ from 24.03 to 24.11

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In this video, I will show how I approach and execute an upgrade of pfSense+. Now, the main focus for me is the methodology I use on how to prepare for an update of a very critical component of my network. So even if you don’t have pfSense, you might benefit from watching me explain how I prepare an upgrade, so you can use the same methodology for any kind of software or hardware in your own infrastructure, and have a piece of mind during the upgrade process.

Check the IPTV configuration video here.
Check how to keep the pfBlockerNG setting even when the package is removed.

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Replacing Sonoff Zigbee USB dongle with SMLIGHT SLZB-06 without re-pairing 120+ devices

Replacing Sonoff Zigbee USB dongle with SMLIGHT SLZB-06 without re-pairing 120+ devices

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Do you have a lot (and I mean a lot!) Zigbee devices and are you experiencing slow-downs in your Zigbee network? Then you are going to want to see this video. I replaced my Sonoff Zigbee USB dongle, connected to Home Assistant, with this amazing SMLIGHT SLZB-06 POE Zigbee adapter. Not only did I replace it, but I did it without re-pairing my 120+ devices :). And it worked on the first try

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Selfhosted note-taking solution with Joplin and Nextcloud

Self-hosted note-taking solution with Joplin and Nextcloud

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I am a big fan and advocate for self-hosted solutions running in your own private cloud. This is exactly where Joplin comes in. The perfect note-taking opensource solution using my own Nextcloud back-end and giving me the ability to fulfill my note-taking needs across all my devices.

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