Using git aliases

I work with git for home and work project, I recently found you can use alias across all platforms due to the way it runs on windows. So all these aliases will work happily on git for windows and hopefully will make you work day more streamlined. Some are from sites I have found and other I have created myself. To access the global git configuration run the following command and then add this to the bottom if you do not have a alias section already. Continue reading

Filling your calendar for the week, increase productivity! Mileage may vary

I like to ensure my calendar gets filled for the next week, this way I know what is happening and it is hard to book a last minute meeting to surprise me. I guess this is a productivity hack. If you book more than a week out then you can take whatever time you want that is open. Ideally no one books last minute but they do and it is really annoying to deal with. Continue reading

New PowerShell module for Home Assistant

So after making the PowerShell script for Home Assistant I decided to spend a hour and pull it together to be a full module and push it up to GitHub. This is now in place and support just turning a switch entity on and off. Installation Install-Module -Name PoshHomeAssistant -Scope CurrentUser Usage Before you can use it set the configuration, this can be done with the following command, set the key and url to match your environment. Continue reading

Getting PowerShell to work with Home Assistant

I wanted to turn on and off my office lamp from my desktop, sure I can use a switch but it is hooked up to Home Assistant so lets make it automatic! The main scenario was to toggle it at 10pm so when I get distracted it will let me know the time. You can use this for just about anything and at some point I will add more functions. Here is the snippet for now. Continue reading

iPhone hotspot issues? Getting it to work with windows.

Had an issue the iPhone hotspot would not work on windows, it would see the network and try to connect, on the phone the hotspot bar at the top would appear and disappear. Simple solution… Go to settings and change the name of your iPhone and remove any single quotes (’) from the name. Go back and turn the hotspot on and enjoy the connection. Well it worked on my computer :)

Getting a DietPi image running on Hyper-V

Why? Because it is faster to test installs and adding items to the DietPi installer with snapshots! Also it makes a great small Linux installation to run other items off in Hyper-V. Go get the VirtualBox VMWare x64 image from the DietPi site. http://dietpi.com/#five Download the QEMU disk image utility from https://cloudbase.it/qemu-img-windows/ Extract the VirtualBox VMWare image, it is a ova file. At this point we need to take the actual disk image out of this file. Continue reading

Getting HP Officejet Pro 8620 scan to network working

So, tried to do this. Failed… Why? not because there was a issue with the share or the user/pass combination. It was the SMB process and stack locations in the I/O request packets (IRPs) that are used by Windows. Reference: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc734424(v=ws.10).aspx To fix To increase IRPStackSize for the server: Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK. Locate and then click to select the following registry subkey: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Lanmanserver\Parameters On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click DWORD Value. Continue reading