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How to Enable DNS over TLS on pfSense with Cloudflare

How to Enable DNS over TLS on pfSense with Cloudflare

Typical DNS is unencrypted which can be concerning especially when the traffic leaves your home network, as anyone along the way can read and intercept your DNS queries. The solution to this of course is encrypted DNS via DNS over TLS and DNS over HTTPS. Unfortunately not all devices support DoT or

How to repair Windows 10 using the Media Creation Tool

How to repair Windows 10 using the Media Creation Tool

Whether Windows update is broken, the Microsoft Store won't open or your OS for whatever reason has gone corrupt, doing a repair install is your best option short of a complete OS reinstall from bootable media. A repair install sometimes called an in-place upgrade will download a fresh copy of the l

Install Docker on Ubuntu 20.04

Install Docker on Ubuntu 20.04

This guide will explain how to install Docker CE on Ubuntu and Ubuntu Server 20.04

Install Home Assistant (Supervised) on Debian

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Install Home Assistant (Supervised) on Debian

This guide will go over how to install Home Assistant (Supervised) on Debian based Linux Distributions

Windows 7 Has Reached EOL: What To Do Next

Windows 7 Has Reached EOL: What To Do Next

As of January 14, 2020 Windows 7 has reached End of Life it will no longer receive security updates and software developers will stop supporting Windows 7. It will become extremely difficult and dangerous to be using Windows 7 past the EOL date. Security issues with the OS will not

Home Automation

The feature you must enable to get the most out of your AV Receiver: Bitstream

Bitstream allows uncompressed audio data to be sent from your device (Typically Blu-Ray Player) directly to your AV Receiver. This is what enables Dolby TrueHD, DTS-HD Master Audio, Dolby Atmos and DTS-X to function and if you do not have Bitstream enabled you are missing out. The AV Receiver that

Mailchimp

A few days ago Carlo gave me the idea to add a mailing list to my website, so people can be notified on future blog posts. Matheson, You should sign up for feedburner so that people can sign up to your website and get emails when you post new stuff.

Home Automation

Making a Dumb TV Smart

UPDATE as of 0.88.0 the Sensor is now a Binary Sensor, I have Updated the Post to Reflect the Changes For a long time I have been trying to get my Dumb (Samsung DLNA) TV into Home Assistant. First I got a Broadlink RM Mini and added it

Home Assistant Kit

Home Automation

Home Assistant Kit

This is my always up to date Kit with the products and services I use in my home: https://kit.co/MathesonStep/home-assistant

Welcome to my Blog

Welcome to my Blog

This is my new Wordpress Blog Here I will be posting about my Home Automation system and Tech as well as issues I have ran into and fixed