How to power Logitech Circle View Homekit camera via PoE outdoors

Posted by: Christian Moser Posted on: 5. November 2022 Comments: 6

In case you were also wondering on how one should power the IP64 rated camera outdoors with the provided indoor only rated power supply, then please continue reading. 🙂 Currently, there is no Homekit compatible camera that supports PoE for outdoor installation but one could follow this post to achieve the said. I tried to make the guide as simple as possible, no soldering skills are required. Note, the following…

How to build an Ambilight for every HDMI input source

Posted by: Christian Moser Posted on: 13. May 2014 Comments: 199

In this post I’m going to show how you can configure your Hyperion Ambilight for every HDMI source. If you don’t have an Ambilight setup yet, I kindly refer you to my previous guide, which will give you an initial ambilight effect for the media center running on the Rpi. This guide will then go one step further and enable the ambilight effect for all kind of HDMI input sources like PS3, XBOX,…

Use Apple’s USB SuperDrive with Linux

Posted by: Christian Moser Posted on: 30. March 2014 Comments: 93

I’m really surprised and disappointed that Apple prevents us from using their USB SuperDrive with non Apple devices. How to outsmart Apple’s firmware Fortunately, with a little hack, we can awake the drive from its deep slumber. It’s required to send a “magic” byte sequence after the drive was connected. I got this byte sequence from a source I no longer can find on the web. So, I don’t take…

How to build your own Ambilight TV with Raspberry Pi and XBMC

Posted by: Christian Moser Posted on: 20. February 2014 Comments: 241

I always wanted one of those colourful glowing large TV screens in my living room but I never felt like paying a fortune for it. So, why don’t do it on my own? I ordered two Raspberry Pis, which seemed like a perfect fit for a media center and a LED controller because of the built in SPI bus interface. After some research, I decided that using SMD LED strips…

How to configure an ingress controller for an Amazon EKS Kubernetes Cluster using Rancher 2.1

Posted by: Christian Moser Posted on: 4. December 2018 Comments: 0

Rancher allows either provisioning a Kubernetes cluster from scratch for several cloud infrastructure providers using its Rancher Kubernetes Engine (RKE) or even more convenient to import an already hosted cluster such as AWS EKS or Google Kubernetes Engine. In this post, I’m going to explain how a EKS cluster can be imported and properly setup to leverage full ingress support in Rancher. The explained ingress setup is not necessary if…

Extend the lifetime of Brother MFC ink cartridges

Posted by: Christian Moser Posted on: 31. December 2016 Comments: 0

To let your printer think the ink level is still sufficient for its services, you can trick the “light sensor” with black electrician’s tape on the ink cartridge: Done, the error message should fade away and you’re able to use the printer again. Note: In my case there was still quite some ink the cartridge to allow “ok” prints. You should replace the empty cartridge soon to prevent a clogged print head,…