I’ve been playing with home bridge for a while as a way to bring to life the various IOT hacks i’ve been fooling around with. I’ve found it so far to be an excellent project and have since set it up to work with my Cubieboard, Particle IO, Yeelights, and Belkin devices. Other than just being able to turn on/off these items in software and SIRI, i also wanted to be able to automatically setup the room lights to match the daylight colour temperature outdoors as the day progresses. Otherwise, whats the purpose of getting lights that can support 16 million colours? Continue reading Homebridge adventures
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Tokyo 3hr Bike Ride
Had some time, so i did a short bike tour when i was in Tokyo. A relaxing 3 hour ride in 20+ degrees. I must say that it was fun, safe and something i would recommend especially wifi you enjoy cycling. Granted that the other routes that are 6 hours long might offer a little more variety, but if you have just half a day, it is totally worth it.
Bike route, photos and some brochures that i picked up along the way below.
NightHawk X6 Performance
If you have a nighthawk X6 from Netgear and think that you have a great router… boy are you right! Until you turned on all the features and run a speed test. To your horror, you realise that you just can’t hit the maximum bandwidth your ISP has provided. Perhaps getting stuck at about ~350Mbps to ~400Mbps.
Word of advice. Turn OFF the traffic meter, and life would be great again. Something around ~800+ Mbps type of great.
Some notes on LRT224. Freezing and Hangs
Got a LRT224 for its OpenVPN capabilities but ended up struggling with stability issues. Here are the symptoms.
The router would work fine for an undetermined amount of time and would then dynamically freeze. the Logs might or might not show any information except something that says
upnpd[438]: UPNP Rule is not FULL!!!
Not much information other than that. Rebooting the router seems to work for a while, but the router might freeze again after an undetermined amount of time. This can be extremely painful if you have services that you need to connect to behind the router. After lots of testing and trying, it seems that the LRT224 might have issues with uPNP. No one seems to be able to pinpoint the exact problem but there has been some reports of users facing issues. Continue reading Some notes on LRT224. Freezing and Hangs