Homebridge is a fantastic mechanism for getting non-HomeKit-certified smart home tech talking to Apple. It’s nerd tech written for nerds, so it’s not the easiest thing in the world to get running. Here are some instructions to make things work on Debian and friends (including Raspberry Pi and Ubuntu): Note that these instructions are going … Read more
There are heaps of guides out there on the Internets for setting up SABnzbd+ and Sick Beard for automated download goodness – but most of them assume you’re setting up SAB and Sick Beard on a computer that’s being used as a regular PC, rather than a media server. As a result, the instructions out … Read more
Preamble I recently purchased myself a HP ProLiant MicroServer with a stack of Western Digital Red hard drives with the intention of building a media server. After stumbling through a few tutorials that didn’t work very well, a colleague took pity on me and gave me some really good advice on how to get things … Read more