Closely intgrated in my SmartHome but not depended on it, is the way I use my local music and video libary.

  • 28 June, 2020: Kodi got a new home
    For a couple of years, the Raspberry Pi I was running OSMC on was housed in an old settop box I bought at a secondhand shop in my town. There was no power brick with it, which dropped the price a lot. There was no airflow at all, which resulted in a system that got a bit warm. So started looking for a better case, but never found an appealing replacement that also had a FAF (Family Approval Factor). Until a couple of months ago while browsing Thingiverse.com for 3 Printable cases and among the standard boxes there was a case based on the Mac Pro I liked the looks of it. And do have a 3d printer, so why not. I started printing and after a couple of long prints talking some 24+ hours of printing I had the parts ready.
  • 17 April, 2020: DIY Ambilight
    For a while I have had an DIY Ambilight behind the TV the LEDs were of the so-called pixel LEDs consisting of 50 individual controllable RGB LEDs.
  • 15 December, 2010: How do I consume my media
    I am a strong believer in offline availability of media even today where it seems everybody is using streaming services like Spotify and Netflix, I like my media to reside on my own server. An internet outage is a rear thing in the Netherlands, but there is always a chance. That is one reason to keep my media offline. Another is that the media I buy in hard copy (CD, DVD, Blu-ray) is really in my possession. Especially for video there are so many services, almost every production company has his own streaming service.