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 running OSMC was housed in an old settopbox I bought at a secondhand shop in my town. There was no power brick with it which droped the price a lot. There was no airflow at all which resulted in an system that got a bit warm. So started looking for a beter case but never found a 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 standaard box there was a case based on the Mac Pro I liked the looks of it. And do have an 3d printer so way 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 where of the so called pixel LEDs consisting of 50 individual controlleble RGB LEDs.
  • 15 December, 2010: How do I consume my media
    I am a strong believer in offline availabilty of media even today where it seems everybody is using streamingservices 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 hardcopy (CD, DVD, BlueRay) is really in my possesion. Especially for video there are so many different services almost everry production company has his own streaming service.