Lately, I have been quickly progressing on my journey to try to use nymea in my home and other places. You can read about how I set up Nymea on an ubuntu USB drive with persistency here if you want to do it too. Shortly after setting it up and getting it working with a few standard IoT devices, I…
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Nymea Journey 3 – Making Some Stuff Work Without Smart Hardware
Not sure if you’re like me, but I like to try out some quick tests of a new system before I start buying hardware. My plan for the Nymea journey is first figure out how how to install it (covered here), then figure out how to be able to use it a bit before committing to server (covered here), then…
How to Stick a Github Repository into Yunohost to Test out Bleeding Edge Stuff
From time to time you might need to install (ie. for testing) a non-stable version of software onto Yunohost. In many cases this can be both a scary and complicated process. With Yunohost, however, it’s shocking easy and almost feels ‘friendly’ like the rest of their user interface. There are two ways to do it: With a command line while…
Getting Virtualbox working on Lenovo E540 and T530 on Ubuntu 20.04
Turns out this was a bit of a perfect storm for this combo to start working. There is a bug where some dependency linux header thing messes up getting the right DKMS thing installed and it presents these kind of errors no matter what tricks you try to pull: The BIOS in the Lenovos had need of enabling virtualization Part…
Installing Virtualbox Guest Additions on a Windows 10 VM on an Ubuntu Host
Virtualbox can do a lot more if you get the ‘guest additions’ stuff working. You can read up on other people’s blogs about that more. For now, I just wanted to walk through a bullet point summary of how to get it working on a Windows machine running as a VM inside an Ubuntu Virtualbox host. Probably this method will…
How to Back Up your SuiteCRM Stuff on Ubuntu Server
Been a big fan and user of SuiteCRM for years. Never really did learn how to properly back up from my own server so yeah. Time to do it! Backing up your SuiteCRM MYSQL Database This is not for saving the files (ie. the custom settings you have made to SuiteCRM over the years and all the PDF templates, workflows,…
HOW TO FIX YOUR SUITECRM GLOBAL SEARCH BY RE-INDEXING
Has your Suite CRM global search broken? I hear you. Hard times. I actually went through the entire process of upgrading our whole instance for about a month and after finishing all that, it turns out it was just this broken index! Good news is that the newer version of Suite CRM is about ten times more awesome so I’m…
How to Make Old HP Laserjet 1000 work with Ubuntu 16.04
EDIT: Sorry, I had one weird ‘-yes’ stuck in that first command a while back but have fixed it and this tutorial works again with copy/paste of commands. Sorry for any inconvenience. I’ll admit I should probably upgrade my printer but… it’s still alive so I won’t. Problem is that now it’s getting harder to install on Ubuntu. Hopefully this…
How to Install Jitsi on Ubuntu 16.04
Yes, this is the hard way but seems to be the ‘only way’ right now at the time of this blog. Always first check to make sure it’s not simply sitting in the software center before beginning this tutorial. No, I can’t figure out why the packages aren’t in the Ubuntu software centre. All I did to make this tutorial…
How to Install Nextcloud Owncloud App on Ubuntu Phone
Before you begin: Always first check in the stock ubuntu software center to make sure that it’s not simply available there first. As of the date of this post it is not, but I expect it will be there very soon. Do not proceed with this tutorial if there is a one click app in the software center 🙂 1…