Hi, I am Ole, a backend developer and home automation enthusiast. From time to time I like to share the problems I had to solve.
I already wrote a script on my Raspberry that starts and stops the surveillance mode of my camera using the "Surveillance Station" on the Synology DiskStation. Now I wanted to extend that tool and light the LEDs of the cam when it is recording and turning them off if it isn't.
This has two reaso...
So my surveillance cam now only records when I am not at home. But what if I forget to turn off the TV? That should happen automaticly, too! But fear not: There is a solution - at least if you own a harmony hub. With the help of the "HarmonyHubControl" - tool (written in c++) this is done quite eas...
I own a Synology diskstation which has the "surveillance station" on board which records content from any LAN (or WiFi)-enabled webcam and sends an alarm when someone is moving at my home. It is possible to enter time schedules when the camera should be enabled and when it shouldn't. But that does n...
For a lot of teams, GIT is the first choice for maintaining the code. So it is for mine. But this post isn't limited to GIT and should work with SVN or TFS with little modifications, too.
Aren't those just two worlds, anyway?
Well. Kind of. But w...
Everyone knows spam. Everyone hates spam. And everyone who has his email-address written on the net (for example in the NIC-records for a domain) gets a lot of spam.
I am one of those guys who gets a lot of spam. Of course there are anti-spam solutions out there, but the best would be to not e...