Jay Tuckey's Blog
Note – The “Request” trigger used in this post is only available on a Premium Power Automate account. If you want this for personal use, I suggest you look at using IFTTT instead, see my guide here: https://jaytuckey.name/2020/04/21/making-a-simple-phone-notification-tool-using-ifttt-available-on-a-free-account/ Many of us have access through our work to Microsoft Power Automate, previously called Microsoft Flow. With […]
Trying to SSH to a Cisco switch from Ubuntu 20.04 you may get this error: This error is because Ubuntu 20.04 has disabled the SHA1-based key exchange methods after some attacks have been found on SHA1. To work around this issue for Cisco switches you can use the command line argument -oKexAlgorithms=+diffie-hellman-group1-sha1 like this: To […]
I have been trying to find a way to create a regular backup of my Cisco switch’s running-config, so I can store it in my normal backups. However, after searching online I was able to find some tools that were almost there, but nothing that was quite as flexible as I needed, so I wrote […]
Here are my notes from the process of flashing this smart powerboard using Tuya-Convert – https://github.com/ct-Open-Source/tuya-convert This is the powerboard: https://www.bunnings.com.au/arlec-5-outlet-smart-powerboard-with-grid-connect_p0074830 These are my notes: Arlec Model: PB89HA 5 Outlet Smart Powerboard – 1 always-on 4 swichable Running on Ubuntu 20.04 Steps: Clone tuya-convert repo run ./install_prereq.sh edited the config.txt and set: WLAN=wlp3s0 rebooted for […]
Here are my notes from the process of flashing this smart plug using Tuya-Convert – https://github.com/ct-Open-Source/tuya-convert This is the plug: https://www.bunnings.com.au/arlec-smart-plug-in-socket-with-grid-connect_p0135440 These are my notes: Arlec Model: PC190HASmart Plug-in Socket with Grid Connect Running on Ubuntu 20.04 Steps: Clone tuya-convert repo run ./install_prereq.sh edited the config.txt and set: WLAN=wlp3s0 rebooted for a clean environment run […]
I have recently helped my local football club – https://litchfieldfc.com.au – to move their email over from Office365 to Zoho email services – https://www.zoho.com/mail/. Overall it was a great experience, and I would recommend Zoho to other clubs and similar small organisations looking for email services. Here are a few things that I found nice […]
I recently got myself a Samsung Galaxy A70. This is a quick review of how I’m finding it after 4 days of use […]
Brent Simmons wrote a great post on his blog that I enjoyed reading: https://inessential.com/2019/10/29/you_choose You choose the web you want. But you have to do the work. A lot of people are doing the work. You could keep telling them, discouragingly, that what they’re doing is dead. Or you could join in the fun. Again: […]
I recently decided to move away from using my Wifi access point as a router, and instead use an old my Raspberry Pi 2 as my router. I had a few reasons for doing this: I wanted a more up-to-date device as my internet facing box. My Wifi AP hasn’t received any firmware updates in […]
Note – 2020-01-06 – The latest version of Kodi is now available in the standard Raspian 10 repository, so installing the standard way will get a working, up-to-date version, no need to add extra sources. To install just run: Kept for historical purposes: Since the release of Raspbian 10 Buster, I have really enjoyed using […]