Home Assistant Not Autodiscovering Cover Entity with Zigbee2MQTT Addon
I recently purchased a new Sonoff Zigbee USB dongle and wanted to try running Zigbee2MQTT again instead of Home Assistant’s built-in Z…
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My RetroPie Tweaks
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Install DOSBox-X on macOS When the Developer Cannot Be Verified
When I tried running DOSBox-X on my MacBook Pro with macOS Monterey (this seems to have better compatibility/performance on macOS than the o…
Update DeepStack in Windows 10 for Blue Iris
I’m running Blue Iris with the DeepStack AI integration using the officially supported method with DeepStack running in Windows 10 on …
Play King’s Quest VI Enhanced in Windows 3.1 via DOSBox
I recently had the urge to replay King's Quest VI and wanted to use the enhanced version that works in Windows 3.1. I previously wrote about…
Truncate the home-assistant.log file Using a Shell Command
When my Home Assistant instance goes a couple weeks between restarts, the home-assistant.log file can grow to nearly a gigabyte in size if t…