I bought my house towards the end of 2016, though I didn't get to move into it until early 2017. I got quite a bit of work done on the house before I moved in, which was part of the reason why I didn't move in immediately. While the house was empty it was a lot easier to get the heating upgraded and to have cabling run throughout the house. But it's only over the last few … [Read more...] about Painting all the Things
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Making Legacy Home Security Setups a bit Smarter With Konnected
One of the "gaps" in my smart home setup at the moment is the burglar alarm. The burglar alarm I have in the house is functional and if you set it off it'll make plenty of noise and drive my neighbours nuts! But it's not "smart", which means that I have no way of monitoring it when I'm out of the country or simply not at home. I had looked into a number of different "smart" … [Read more...] about Making Legacy Home Security Setups a bit Smarter With Konnected
Some Serious Adulting: Choosing a New Fridge Freezer
Over the past few months I've found myself getting "excited" about things that never really featured on my radar previously. Who would have thought that light fittings or sockets would be things I'd ever really care about? I'm not complaining, but I do find it rather amusing. When I bought the house the kitchen was fully equipped, though I had no idea how much abuse any of … [Read more...] about Some Serious Adulting: Choosing a New Fridge Freezer
More Storage, Gardening and a bit of Smart Tech
At this stage there are very few "pressing" things left to resolve with the house. Of course there'll always be improvements that can be made and I still have a load of boxes that I need to unpack, but they'll get unpacked eventually. I planted the fruit plants a few weeks back and they seem to be surviving so far, though whether they'll bear any fruit next year or not … [Read more...] about More Storage, Gardening and a bit of Smart Tech
Getting the Home Network Working a bit Better
Since I moved into the house I've had broadband. Up until the other day I had a single router which handled both the connection to the outside world, as well as the wifi for the entire house. The router is a Fritz!Box 7560, which works pretty well over IPv4. The IPv6 side of things is incredibly flaky unfortunately, so I've had to disable it for now, which is rather annoying, … [Read more...] about Getting the Home Network Working a bit Better