Smart systems, data analysis and software technology
With hundreds of unique, cryptic passwords to manage we all have to admit that we are overwhelmed with today’s security requirements. Password safes along with two factor authentication (2FA) promises some help to organize those large numbers of auto-generated passwords. As Web based password safes became pretty popular for obvious reasons, they also represent a […]
You probably found that it is not that easy to overwrite the default Docker container command if you are running it in your Synology NAS. Maybe you came across the following error: “Unable to perform this operation, possibly the network connection is unstable or the system is busy. Please try again later.” Actually, this error […]
For years, I have been struggling with my network camera and its inability to correctly detect motion without generating a storm of false positive images. No matter how I configure the sensitivity of my camera, it is generating thousands of false-positive motion pictures each single day. It seems as if the motion detection intelligence within […]
Running Home Assistant Open Source home automation locally offers great advantages, such as optimizing your own energy usage or to simply automate boring and repetitive tasks. In case you own a Synology network disks, such as the Synology Diskmanager DS218+ you can directly run Docker containers on your local network disk and therefore also run […]
There are many reasons why I think that a Synology Diskstation NAS is a perfect all-in-one private cloud platform. It keeps your precious family photos and documents safely stored in a RAID system and it runs your local services as well as your home automation system. Therefore, my Synology NAS evolved into a critical backbone, […]
Today’s home automation market is largely dominated by prominent vendors who offer a wide spectrum of sensors and actuators that work well in their own homogeneous environments. As long as you stick to the vendor’s collection of hardware, everything should work smoothly and with highest usability. This is also called vendor lock in 😉 As […]