Ram's Technology Notes
tl;dr: If you are having problems with the Kasa three-way switch in a four-way circuit where the Kasa app and Alexa don’t see the right state of the circuit (on/off), make sure you replace both three-way switches in the circuit with HS210 switches. That will fix the problem. For a change, I’m writing about some…
As mentioned before, I am trying to setup and run the fastai notebooks locally to get some hands-on exposure to deep learning. Unfortunately, if you are running this on Windows or have a very low-end GPU environment like myself you will run into additional problems. First, on Windows, I was hitting the error _share_cuda_ operation…
I decided to learn a little bit more about deep learning in practice and bought the Deep Learning for Coders with fastai and PyTorch: AI Applications Without a PhD book to help me get some hands-on exposure to deep learning. I did get the notebook and first examples running on gradient but I was also…
As I mentioned here, I have been running Manjaro Linux on my home laptop for almost a year now and for the most part it has worked well. My setup is that most of the useful storage is on my home server and I was mounting these as SMB shares on the laptop. Initially, I…
After a pleasant year of using Manjaro Linux on my laptop at home, I started seeing problems with SMB mounts. My setup is that I have all of the main storage on my home server which is shared through SMB shares and these shares are mounted on the laptop through SMB4k. SMB4k started doing strange…
I have been running Manjaro Linux on my main home laptop for a change for the last 9 months. Overall, experience has been excellent with almost all the hardware working very well, battery life being very good, wake from sleep being near instantaneous and the laptop being very functional for my workload. I had however…
I have been trying unsuccessfully to setup automatic wireless sync of photos and videos from our iPhones to my home server running Ubuntu. After failures with Plex camera roll upload which does not seem to work consistently, I have finally found a good alternative. The method is inefficient but has been reliable for the last…
As part of my home network setup, I have an APC UPS (XS 1500 LCD if you’re curious). I have the UPS monitoring cable hooked up to my Ubuntu home server and run apcupsd to monitor and control the UPS behavior. After I upgraded to Ubuntu 18.04, I didn’t pay attention to the UPS setup…
I recently setup Pi-Hole on my Home Server to block ads at the DNS level and across devices instead of trying to set it up for each device individually. In my setup the Pi-Hole server acts as the DNS server for my network but I kept my AmplifiHD router as the DHCP server. Overall, the…
I’ve been using Sonos for over 7 years. My music folder is in my file server running Linux. I’ve setup a SMB share for this folder and add it to my Sonos music library so that Sonos has access to my music library. This setup has worked fine for the last 7 years. After my…