Strav's blog

I may have a need for this biometric cabinet lock at some point.  Fingerprint Lock Cabinet Locks Biometric Keyless Wooden Box Furniture Drawer Fingerprint Locks,Suitable for Home &Office (M) more »

At some point, I want to wall mount a tablet to provide access to Home Assistant.  Here is some information on wall mounting tablets. My cheap smart home system | HomeAssistant Wall Panel Recommended android tablet device for a wall mounted display?… more »

The easiest way to do this is open up a Cygwin terminal (as an administrator) and type the command: more »

Suddenly all my OpenVPN connections stopped working.  Turns out that the signing certificate expired (took some doing to figure this out).  Here are some links dealing with OpenVPN certificates (and certificates in general) How to change CA certificate… more »

I added a backup camera to the truck and to do so, I needed to hook into the reverse switch to make it automatically switch to the camera when put in reverse.  Here are a couple links to wiring diagrams that helped out.   1993 F150XLT 5.8L info on… more »

I've been using pfSense as my firewall/router for several years now.  Overall, I've been very satisfied except for one issue.  I don't believe I ever got failover to work reliably and that is key.  I had written my own software to handle failover years… more »