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Our second test session at Rye House was a partial success but with a lot of learning opportunities. We found more problems with the kart. marklewis.blog/2021/07/24/se…

Second Test Session at Rye House - Mark Lewis Blog

Our second test session at Rye House was a partial success but with a lot of learning opportunities. We found more problems with the kart.

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Preparing for Test Session marklewis.blog/2021/07/21/pr…

Preparing for Test Session - Mark Lewis Blog

We had an upcoming test session, so did some additional work to the kart to prepare for it. Not a long post but documented non the less.

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After the test session, we realised some work needed to be done on the kart. This post outlines what we did. marklewis.blog/2021/07/08/fi…

Fixing up the kart - Mark Lewis Blog

After the test session, we realised some work needed to be done on the kart. This post outlines what we did.

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Review of Round 2 of the Rookie Cup held at Rye House that my eldest took part in. marklewis.blog/2021/07/06/ry…

Rye House Rookie Cup - Round 2 - Mark Lewis Blog

Review of Round 2 of the Rookie Cup, an arrive and drive Cadet Kart Championship held at Rye House that my eldest took part in.

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After buying a kart on a bit of a whim, we gave it a check over before heading over to Rye House to give it a shakedown, learn and see how it goes. marklewis.blog/2021/06/29/fi…

First Test Session - Mark Lewis Blog

After purchasing a Project One Cadet Kart, we took it out for a test session to work out what was needed and for the eldest to practice.

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The eldest decided to return to karting. This post goes catches up on where we are now up to with it all. marklewis.blog/2021/06/23/re…

Returning to Karting - Mark Lewis Blog

The eldest decided to return to karting after he was put off in a bambino accident. This post goes catches up on where we are now up to.

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Decided to build myself a new PC, not done it for a while, want to do more. marklewis.blog/2021/06/17/bu…

Building a new PC - Mark Lewis Blog

Building a new PC using Corsair products - 5000x case, H150i water-cooler, 750w PSU and ASUS B550-E Gaming motherboard with AMD Ryzen 9 CPU.

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Automation of a light bulb stopped working within Home Assistant. Community helped diagnose the issue. Found a workaround calling the service directly. marklewis.blog/2021/04/29/li…

Lidl Zigbee bulb stopped automating - Mark Lewis Blog

My Lidl Zigbee bulb stopped automatically activating with a motion sensor within Home Assistant. We look into the fault and workaround.

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Switch from Conbee II to Sonoff hub. Switched out the Conbee II Zigbee hub for a Sonoff Zigbee bridge running Tasmota firmware. Gave some thought to network design. Attempted to resolve SNZB-04 issues as well. marklewis.blog/2021/03/13/sw…

Switch from Conbee II to Sonoff hub - Mark Lewis Blog

Switched out the Conbee II Zigbee hub for a Sonoff Zigbee bridge running Tasmota firmware. Gave some thought to network design. Attempted to resolve SNZB-04 issues as well.

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Unbox Xiaomi Honeywell Smoke Sensor. Added to Home Assistant and then added some basic automations. Fun, will get some more of these hopefully. marklewis.blog/2021/03/08/xi…

Xiaomi Honeywell Smoke Sensor - Mark Lewis Blog

Unbox Xiaomi Honeywell Smoke Sensor. Added to Home Assistant and then added some basic automations. Fun, will get some more of these hopefully.

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Video unboxing the Xiaomi Motion sensor and adding it to HA, along with pairing and using a Bluetooth speaker! marklewis.blog/2021/02/25/ho…

Home Assistant Bluetooth Speaker - Mark Lewis Blog

Video unboxing the Xiaomi Motion sensor and adding it to HA, along with pairing and using a Bluetooth speaker!

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Sonoff SNZB-04 Unboxing Video and adding it to Home Assistant marklewis.blog/2021/02/20/so…

Sonoff SNZB-04 Unboxing Video - Mark Lewis Blog

Had a go at creating a video, unboxing and adding a Sonoff SNZB-04 to Home Assistant.

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Dipping my toe in to the world of IoT, home automation and using Home Assistant. marklewis.blog/2021/01/29/io…

IoT and Home Automation - Mark Lewis Blog

Dipping toe in to the world of a smart home. Bit muddled but it's been written as I've experimented.

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All change in the Home Lab, the HP C7000 is being decommissioned. marklewis.blog/2020/11/25/al…

All change in the Home Lab - Mark Lewis Blog

The HP C7000 is being decommissioned, in favour of something more economical to run, quieter and able to run all year round.

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Adding the Transport Server to Exchange marklewis.blog/2020/11/19/ad…

Adding the Transport Server to Exchange - Mark Lewis Blog

Installed the Transport Server for Exchange in the DMZ. Couple of trip ups discovered but it's in there now.

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Adding Exchange Server 2019 to the Lab, Published via HAProxy in Layer 4 mode, LetsEncrypt Certificate on IIS. marklewis.blog/2020/11/06/ad…

Adding Exchange Server to the Lab - Mark Lewis Blog

I decided to add Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 to the lab, to experiment and play. It's been a while that's for sure! Learned more about what the Sophos XG can and cant do, added HAProxy goodness.

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Ubiquiti Journey Part 2. Installing the equipment, setting it up, lessons learnt and Sky Q issues. marklewis.blog/2020/07/13/ub…

Ubiquiti Journey Part 2 - Mark Lewis Blog

In Home and Lab Network Infrastructure I outlined some issues I was having with the home network and how I planned to fix them. Then in Ubiquiti Journey Part 1 I went through setting up the UniFi...

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Ubiquiti Journey Part 1, setting up the controller ready for the hardware. marklewis.blog/2020/07/09/ub…

Ubiquiti Journey Part 1 - Mark Lewis Blog

Following Home and Lab Network Infrastructure, I put out a request on Twitter asking where in the UK people got their hardware from. From this, I received a list of vendors and after reviewing them,...

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Home and Lab Network Infrastructure, reviewing then planning a massive upgrade and overhaul. marklewis.blog/2020/07/07/ho…

Home and Lab Network Infrastructure - Mark Lewis Blog

Reviewing the network infrastructure, planning a massive overhaul and improvement. Thoughts and problems.

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Monitoring Active Directory is a vital task to detect issues before they impact users. Some older protocols are known to be insecure, so lets identify them so we can rectify them. marklewis.blog/2020/05/09/ad…

AD Monitoring and Dashboards - Mark Lewis Blog

A post explaining some performance monitors for AD Domain Controllers using Grafana and Zabbix, starting to build security ones using Graylog.

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