Last week I wrote a post on how I’m implementing Yolo into my security camera system. You can read this article here: https://techible.net/real-time-object-people-detection-with-node-red-and-yolo/ While playing around with Yolo and surfing the interweb to find out more about Yolo I found the JeVois camera. JeVois is...
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June 17, 2019 peter
Internet of Things, automation & electronics, Vision
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A few weeks ago I came across Yolo (you only look once), an object detection system build on the darknet neural network platform. Until then I wasn’t spending my time with machine learning and neural networks. But Yolo got me triggered. At home I have...
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June 13, 2019 peter
Computer and Server, Internet of Things, automation & electronics
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In a previous article I explained how you can install Node-RED on your Ubuntu server. Quite a few people are wondering how you can configure your server to start Node-RED automatically on system boot. That’s what this article is all about: start Node-RED as a...
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June 7, 2019 peter
Computer and Server, Internet of Things, automation & electronics
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Today I was strugling with the node red ‘time range switch’. I noticed it was switching at a different time I intended. After some research I came to the conclusion the timezone setting for Node RED was wrong even with the server timezone set correctly....
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October 19, 2018 peter
Computer and Server, Internet of Things, automation & electronics
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In a previous post I showed how to install NGINX in docker to act as a reverse proxy for Apache Guacamole. This is nice but it would be even nicer if the connection was encrypted. Luckily getting an SSL certificate and setting it up for...
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October 9, 2018 peter
Computer and Server
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After I switched from iPhone to an Android device I couldn’t you Siri any longer to switch lights on and of. Fortunately Google Assistant came to the rescue. But not without some additional research and trial and error solutions. If you’re lucky you can just...
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October 5, 2018 peter
Internet of Things, automation & electronics
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For my homeserver, which is running ESXI free edition, I’m using Apacha Guacamole to access the virtual machines. Apache Guacamole makes it possible to control all PC’s on my server without exposing RDP or VNC ports on the internet. Currently I’m using a non-dockerized, outdated,...
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October 4, 2018 peter
Computer and Server
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Today I’ll write an artice about getting push notifications on motion detection by a zoneminder camera. After configuring the system you’ll get a notification including a screen capture from the camera right after motion has been detected by zoneminder. Prerequisites: a running and functional zoneminder...
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October 3, 2018 peter
Internet of Things, automation & electronics
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After running node-red on Ubuntu lts 16.04 for a while it was time for an update with Ubuntu 18.04 being released. Unfortunately I was not able to get Node-Red installed with the tutorials that could be found for Ubuntu 16.04. The installation always gets stuck...
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April 27, 2018 peter
Computer and Server, Internet of Things, automation & electronics
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If you want to get into digital photography with a DSLR camera but dont want to spend to much money on a camera you should defenitaly look to the second hand market. But don’t just buy by looking at the camera type, functionalities and price...
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February 2, 2018 peter
Digital Photography
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