Simplifying Gadgets and Technology, is my passion!
I have created a dedicated room on Riot.im at https://chat.librenet.co.za/#/room/#gadgeteerza:librenet.co.za where my blog posts will also be appearing, and anyone can comment or post there. Riot.im is an opensource alternative to Slack, and can also be used for […]
I have set Viewport settings on my site for mobile devices so hope this will improve page scaling and rendering for mobile devices. Note though that images are rendered to fit on the screens, so […]
I’ve created the page at https://gadgeteer.co.za/homeassistant to follow my journey as a newbie in setting up and configuring Home Assistant to work. I’ve got as far as the basic set up and editing of config files. I’m currently exploring […]
I’ve added a new page today that has a useful grouped selection of commands that can be used with a Google Home device (or with Google Assistant app on the phone). It’s list I previously […]
I just added a new page to the site which will deal with home automation devices and projects I’m busy with. It will grow and improve over time as I add more information and upgrade […]
Some downtime today between 14:00 to 15:00 whilst the site was being upgraded. The upgrade is finished and looks like everything is working fine.
For some odd reason, I noticed yesterday that this whole page had disappeared along with the video module (that displays embedded video for that page) was disabled. Yet the original static picture image was in […]
The menu now shows an option (far right) to see site related news (such as this!). There are now two RSS feeds that can be subscribed to for up to date news on either all […]
The redirect error was fixed (for advanced search) and a tag cloud added (which appears on the search results page after executing a simple search).
The site was officially up and running on 29 Dec 2017 but some redirect errors had to be resolved and this only happened on the morning on 30 Dec 2017. From 30 Dec 2017 the […]