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Author: Martin

ZimaBoard and Intel quad port NIC
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Installing pfSense 2.6 on ZimaBoard

29th May 202229th May 2022 Martin 2 Comments pfSense, Zimaboard

I backed the ZimaBoard Single Board Server project on Kickstarter in early 2021, a couple of months ago it finally

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Zigbee gas meter magnetic sensor
3D Printing Home Automation 

Gas Meter Usage Sensor Using Zigbee Door Sensor

29th May 202229th May 2022 Martin 2 Comments Home Assistant, Home Automation, Zigbee

Since Home Assistant launched the Energy Management dashboard, I wanted to find a way to add my Gas usage to

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Sensor to count pulses from LED on electricity meter
3D Printing Home Automation 

Solar Generation Monitoring with Home Assistant

29th May 202229th May 2022 Martin 0 Comments ESP32, Home Assistant, Home Automation

Back in ?? we had Solar Panels installed for free on our roof by A Shade Greener, free as they

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Guide Home Automation 

Migrate Home Assistant to Argon One M.2 SSD

12th July 202121st December 2021 Martin 12 Comments Home Assistant, Home Automation, Raspberry Pi

Now that my previous issues with the Argon ONE M.2 case have been resolved, I’m able to finally put the

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Argon ONE M.2 PCB version 2,2 with WiFi symbol overlay
Argon Forty Case Reviews Troubleshooting 

Argon ONE M.2 SSD Case – WiFi Issues Resolved

20th June 202120th June 2021 Martin 21 Comments Case Review, Testing, WiFi

My initial review of the Argon ONE M.2 Case for Raspberry Pi 4 was fairly positive, with the exception of

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Reviews Troubleshooting 

Raspberry Pi PoE+ HAT: Responding to Pi Foundation

17th June 202117th June 2021 Martin 0 Comments PoE, PoE-HAT, Raspberry Pi

On 17th June 2021, Jeff Geerling released a video showing his experiences with the new PoE+ HAT. His experiences are

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Reviews Troubleshooting 

Raspberry Pi PoE+ HAT Review – Part 2: Problems

8th June 20214th May 2022 Martin 17 Comments PoE, PoE-HAT, Raspberry Pi

In Part 1 of this review series, I looked at some high-level changes of the new Raspberry Pi PoE+ HAT.

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Raspberry Pi PoE+ HAT
Reviews 

Raspberry Pi PoE+ HAT Review – Part 1

5th June 20218th October 2021 Martin 4 Comments Networks, PoE, PoE-HAT, Raspberry Pi

On 24th May 2021, Eben Upton announced the Raspberry Pi PoE+HAT on the Raspberrypi.org Blog. Given the challenges experienced and

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Cooler Master Pi Case 40
Case Reviews Comparisons Cooler Master 

Cooler Master Pi CASE 40 for Raspberry Pi 4 (GPIO WARNING!)

7th March 202121st October 2021 Martin 6 Comments Case Review, Raspberry Pi, stressberry, Testing

Update 21 October 2021: Cooler Master have released a revised version of this case without, the Pi-Case-40-v2. This addresses the

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Raspberry Pi 4 with Blue WiFi symbol overlay
Comparisons Troubleshooting 

Raspberry Pi WiFi Performance Revisited

21st February 202121st February 2021 Martin 0 Comments Raspberry Pi, Testing, WiFi

Back in 2019, I attempted to characterise the impact on WiFi performance of various different Raspberry Pi 4 cases. The

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