While smart garage door openers are already “smart”, there’s always room for improvement. For example, wouldn’t it be nice to see if your garage was open from within the SmartThings app? Talk about the ultimate SmartThings garage door opener! Believe it or not, you can! I had to do some digging, but eventually, I found…
If you’re someone who owns SimpliSafe smart home security products, then you may have been wondering: Does SimpliSafe work with SmartThings in 2021? The answer is no, Simplisafe does not work natively with SmartThings. How To Check if Simplisafe is Compatible With SmartThings If you’re ever unsure if a product is compatible with SmartThings, there…
PDQ Inventory is an awesome tool for system administrators. I constantly amazed at the amount of things I can do with it to simplify my life. For example, we are transitioning away from employees having local administrators right on their machines. I wanted to quickly find out which users were added as a local administrator…
Chances are if you’re reading this guide, then you’re experiencing a pretty annoying bug with your raspberry pi os: the Chromium Can’t Update message. Don’t worry – This simple 1-line fix below will help. I’ve used this same command on 4 raspberry pi “dashboards” around the office, so I can assure you this works. If…
For those of you not in the selfhosted/Dashmachine subreddits, Dashmachine v0.7 was released about a week ago. Dashmachine is a dashboard for all of your selfhosted apps, media applications, browser shortcuts, and much more. You can think of it as an application bookmark. Once installed, set it as your browser’s default opening URL so everytime…
One of the most common smart home items people have in 2021 is a smart TV. Smart TV’s are great. They allow you to steam Netflix, watch Hulu, or access your cable without connecting a cable box. With so many different makes and models on the market today, you might have some questions about they…
If you’re anything like me, once you’ve setup Organizr on your computer to manage all of your media server applications, like Sonarr, Radarr, Tautulli, Plex, etc, you’re soon going to want to add EVERYTHING you frequently access to it. However, you may notice that some applications can’t be added inside the Organizr v2 iframe. Pihole…
If you’re racking your brain trying to figure out how to access Tautulli remotely, you’re in luck! This guide will walk through the step by step exactly what you need to do to access Tautulli from another computer in your house in 2021. It’s pretty simple to do. Once you make this small change, you…
If you’re reading this article, there’s a good chance you have software like Plex, Sonarr, Tautulli, or Jackett running on your home PC. There’s nothing wrong with having lots of services running. In fact, most of you probably do (me included!). However, the problem is that each one of those apps have their own IP…
In this guide, I’m going to show you how to create a PDQ Deploy sequence to check whether or not a computer has a certain Google Chrome extension installed. All the other scripts I could find show every single extension a user has installed, which isn’t helpful when hunting down maliciously installed extensions. In my…