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Simple Home Assistant Notification when Plex is Playing

by Danny March 16, 2022
by Danny March 16, 2022

READING TIME: 4 MINUTESIn this guide, I’ll show you how to create an automation that sends a notification whenever one of your Plex users start watching something. This automation was found in…

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Media ServerSelf HostedSysadmin

How To Copy Files to Google Drive using Powershell

by Danny January 19, 2022
by Danny January 19, 2022

READING TIME: 5 MINUTESIn this guide, I’m going to show you how to copy (upload) files to Google Drive using a simple Powershell script. This is a great way to automate the…

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DockerSelf HostedSysadmin

How To Install Kimai Time Tracking App in Docker

by Danny December 27, 2021
by Danny December 27, 2021

READING TIME: 6 MINUTESIn this guide, I’ll show you how to deploy the open source time tracking app Kimai in a Docker container. Kimai is free, browser-based (so it’ll work on mobile…

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Media ServerSelf Hosted

How To Setup Plex-Automatic-Pre-roll-Gui in Windows

by Danny December 21, 2021
by Danny December 21, 2021

READING TIME: 6 MINUTESIn this guide, I’m going to show you how to setup and install Plex-Automatic-Preroll-Gui to automate the prerolls that play before you start a Plex movie. If this sounds…

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DashboardsDockerSelf Hosted

Custom CSS Flame Dashboard

by Danny December 17, 2021
by Danny December 17, 2021

READING TIME: 3 MINUTESIn this guide, I’ll show you how to customize your Flame Dashboard by using CSS tweaks. This will allow you to change font sizes, hover colors, number of rows,…

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DockerSelf HostedSysadmin

How to install Snippet Box in Docker

by Danny November 3, 2021
by Danny November 3, 2021

READING TIME: 4 MINUTESIn this guide, I’m going to show you how to install Snippet Box in a Docker container. Snippet Box is an application that lets you organize your code snippets.…

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DashboardsDockerSelf Hosted

How to Install Flame Dashboard in Docker

by Danny November 2, 2021
by Danny November 2, 2021

READING TIME: 11 MINUTESIn this guide, I’m going to show you how to setup and install the Flame dashboard in a Docker container. Flame is a simple, minimalistic self-hosted startpage. It’s very…

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Media ServerSelf HostedSysadmin

How To Automatically Start Sonarr & Radarr After Reboot (Windows)

by Danny October 3, 2021
by Danny October 3, 2021

READING TIME: 9 MINUTESIn this guide, I’m going to show you how to automatically start Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr, NZBGet, or any other application automatically after your server reboots. This guide will be…

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Media ServerSelf Hosted

How To Install ErsatzTV to create IPTV Channels in Plex

by Danny October 2, 2021
by Danny October 2, 2021

READING TIME: 10 MINUTESIn this guide, I’m going to show you how to install ErsatzTV on a Windows Server 2019 server. ErsatzTV is similar to DizqueTV; it’s an application that lets you…

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Media ServerSelf Hosted

How To Install DizqueTV to create IPTV Channels in Plex

by Danny September 28, 2021
by Danny September 28, 2021

READING TIME: 14 MINUTESIn this guide, I’m going to show you how to install dizqueTV on Windows Server 2019. DizqueTV is an awesome application that lets you create pseudo “TV channels” from…

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Hey there! I'm Danny, owner and writer of Smart Home Pursuits. I've worked as an IT Manager for 8 years and enjoy using my knowledge to make my smart home "smarter".

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