Taking Automation on the Road

So we pulled the leaver on buying a RV. However we want to be able to watch our shows on the road, simple idea however internet access is not everywhere we want to go. To to get the DVR recordings from our media centre I setup a Pi running jellyfin and then wrote a simple powershell script which runs on the Pi and when it is on and at home will pick up our main media centre ont he network and copy and shows with a file called . Continue reading

Make the Calendar in Microsoft Teams use the same keyboard shortcut as Outlook

I use keyboard shortcuts a lot and in outlook I am used to the Ctrl+1/2/3/4 to go between mail, calendar, contacts, etc. In teams I found myself using Ctrl + 2 to go to the calendar which actually brings you to the Chat tab. I know I could use Ctrl + 4 but you know muscle memory… Then I found out you can reorder all the tabs on the left, so not I have Chat at the top just like my mail Ctrl + 1 followed by Calendar which means it is Ctrl + 2 which is now very similar to Outlook! Continue reading

Getting Night Light to work with a docking station in Windows 10

This comes from How to enable Night Light feature on DisplayLink devices in Windows 10. I have a Targus docking station and luckily it used DisplayLink, the key does not exist with the Targus drivers installed so… Go to https://www.displaylink.com/downloads/windows and download the DisplayLink drivers. Install them. Start RegEdit Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\DisplayLink\Core Create new String value with name EnableGammaRamp and set the data to be: true Unplug and plug your DisplayLink device Enable Night light in Windows All your monitors should now be at the same gamma settings. Continue reading

Work at home and being a team

Now that we are dealing with COVID-19, a lot of companies are getting their employees to work remotely. For some this will be great and for other who crave social interaction not so great. For me the key thing is making sure that my team feels like a team still. Keeping the routine going is pretty important. For yourself and your team. There are lots of great posts about this so I will just list the key points. Continue reading

Auto Update Git Aliases

Because I am lazy I wrote a script so I can update all my machines from the one location which is the gist below. This works in powershell core. Again this is mostly for me but feel free to use as needed. Update your $profile to have th following environment variable set. This will allows the wid and pid aliases to work correctly. $env:GIT_PERSONAL_EMAIL = "personal@personal.com" $env:GIT_PERSONAL_USERNAME = "myname" $env:GIT_WORK_EMAIL = "work@work. Continue reading

Using git aliases part two

This is a update to Using git aliases. A few extra commands and a bit of a cleanup. ~I should move it to a gist at some point.~ Update: Moved the contents to a gist.

Using PowerShell core in Visual Studio Code on windows

This is more for me than anyone else. If you want to move to PowerShell core in Visual Studio Code then do the following. Press CTRL + , to open settings. Enter Shell: Windows in the search box. Scroll down to Terminal > Integrated > Shell: Windows Click on ‘Edit in settings.json’ and add the following. “terminal.integrated.automationShell.windows”: “C:/Users/${env:USERNAME}/scoop/apps/pwsh/current/pwsh.exe”, “terminal.integrated.shell.windows”: “C:/Users/${env:USERNAME}/scoop/apps/pwsh/current/pwsh.exe”, Now when the terminal is opened it will be using PowerShell Core. Continue reading