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How to run Home Assistant in Kubernetes
There is almost nothing better than running your smart home on your own server! And it’s hard to find better smart home system than Home Assistant itself. I used to run my instance of Home Assistan on a QEMU virtual machine inside old rack server (Dell R620 with intel Xenon E5-E2630L, 64GB RAM and 10TB…
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How to add and remove host from a Microceph cluster
What is Microceph and Ceph Ceph is a highly scalable, open-source distributed storage platform. It supports object, block, and file storage, and is designed for large-scale, enterprise-level environments. Ceph provides robust features for redundancy, fault tolerance, and scalability, making it suitable for complex and demanding storage needs. MicroCeph is a lightweight deployment and management tool…
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How to add swap to Raspberry Pi
By default, Raspberry Pi Linux images come without swap enabled. And it makes sense! SD Cards used as a default are not suited to be used with swap! They would wear out too fast and in general, would not improve performance that much. However, with new generations of Raspberry Pi, where you can install operating…
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INAV Ez-Tune Cheat Sheet
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BLHeli_32 is dead, killed by the war in Ukraine
Hm, to be honest, I’m not sure what to think about it and the fact that BlHeli AS (company that develops and sells BLHeli 32 licenses) is closing operations as it was impacted by the export control regulations towards Russia. In other words, sanctions. We will not go into geopolitical aspects of things, but let’s…
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iFlight Defender FPV drone INAV target
If you own a iFlight Defender 25 or any other iFlight FPV drone with a Blitz F722 X1 flight controller and you would like to try INAV with its superior GPS capabilities, fear not, I have good new for you. You can download INAV 7.1.1 files for the iFlight Blitz F722 X1 flight controller from…
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INAV 7.1 release
Great news! INAV 7.1 is available for download and flights! In this minor update we give you a couple of new features as well as a few fixes. The biggest features would be: Fixed wing Autoland with landing pattern, greatly improved magnetometer and barometer handling including mag-less navigation (bear in mind, it’s still partially experimental)…
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INAV on Tiny Whoops
Believe it or not, but INAV is quite good in many things, not only airplanes and long range drones. It is perfect for flying Tiny Whoops as well! Hell, it’s even quite good at it.INAV 7.1 will have an unofficial target for the BETAFPVF411 that power a lot of whoops: Meteor65 pro, Meteor75Pro, Meteor 85…
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Walksnail Goggles X solve a problem
The Walksnail Avatar FPV system just got a huge upgrade. The Goggles X, as the next generation of Avatar goggles are called, solve a few major problems known from previous model. You get HDMI and Analog input. It’s possible to use Goggles X with Walksnail, Analog FPV and even HDZero. Only if you figure out…