house

House log - Progress 05/24

Today we went to the house to look at the electrical stuff (positions) and see if we need anything else. We ended up staying a couple of hours discussing about it and came up with a bunch of changes. The text below will be in French, because it's

jail

Create a jail with DHCP on ESXi

I am in process of moving some functions from my old and trusted Synology box on the freenas. I want to also automatise most of things in case I need to recreate them again. The first step in my process is to create jails, with DHCP. Process is straight-forward via

ansible

Set up MacOS on ESXi

I've decided to use Ansible to set up a virtual VM with MacOS. I used to have a mac or two, but my hardware is obsolete now (Intel core 2 duo, anyone?) and I can't justify paying a couple of thousand Euros every few years for

ansible

My Ansible References

I've had it with setting up things manually. I've always said I'll automate everything so I make my live easier, but the progress on adding FreeNas jails and configuring them was soo much fun.. Now' I've decided to stop and step

nextcloud

Add a Trusted Domain to Nextcloud

I've installed NextCloud on my FreeNas server and I got an error that my domain is not trusted. After looking online, it looks like I need to add the hosts capable of connecting to my instance explicitly. This is actually nice, because I don't want everybody

nextcloud

Improve Nextcloud

Yesterday, I've set up Nextcloud on my server, so I can back up files. That was nice, until I started backing them up... Some files like .htaccess could not be backed up... Prerequisistes 1. FreeNas install (11.3 at the time of writing this) 2. NextCloud plugin installed

flipper

Set up Filpper with Your React Native Application

TL;DR: Install OpenSSL and watchman if you want to benefit from using flipper RN 0.62 was launched recently, with support for a new interesting tool (for me) named flipper. As I was using the previous combination of dev tools and reactotron, I was curious to test the new

house

House log - Progress 03/04

Today I went to see the progress on the site. * Electricien Belgium got the plans and are doing the grounding of the house and * The civil engineering company will put stones around (we went for recycled stones). Stones and earth There's still a bit to be done in

house

House log - Progress 03/03

This morning I had a meeting with the civil engineering company and electricians: * Electricien Belgium got the plans and are doing the grounding of the house and * The civil engineering company will put stones around (we went for recycled stones). Wrap and grounding HTH,

house

House log - Progress 29/02

Today I drove down to the building site to see if there was any progress. I took note of the two pipe holes for the heat pump: Heat pump

house

House log - Progress 27/02

Today I drove down to the building site to see if there was any progress. Honestly, I did not expect too much to happen, since here is snowing. Well, surprise: Cellar Fab! ..but now the first bill will come also...

house

House log - Progress 24/02

Today I went to the site to see if there was any progress Just a new pellet popped in: State I think the pellet has the windows' protections. Looks good!

house

House log - Progress 21/02

Today I went to the site to see if the water works were finished. They were and now I have a water connection! The guys moved the fences around so the big machines can come in now. They put the concrete in: Water Good!

house

House log - Today's Summary

Tasks for the day * Check the water works (done) Waterworks Today was the day where the water company was supposed to come and perform the connection. We went relatively early in the morning with the wooden planks to see the progress. When we arrived, the guys were well on their

house

House log - Progress 19/02

Today I went to the site to see if the fences were removed. The guys moved the fences around so the big machines can come in now. They put the concrete in: Concrete We also got the first pellet for the cellar! Cellar pellet And.. it's for us!

house

House log - Today's Summary

Tasks for the day * Finish ordering the sinks (done) * Go to the building site (done) * Get the final price for the house (done) Ordering the sinks Yesterday we had a final chat with the architect and they told us we'll need to put tiles on the wall to

house

House log - Progress 18/02

Today I have seen progress on the site for a while. The guys placed the frame and the seel for the base plate: And here's the second one: I've talked to the builders a bit. They're coming from Luxembourg and are nice to talk

house

House log - Today's Summary

Tasks for the day * Contact the fence rental company (done) * Inform the contractor on when the fence people come to pick up the base (done) * Get clarification form Electricien Belgium (done) * Maybe move the fence base (I hope not!) * Meet the company which will do the fences and gate (done)

house

House log - Today's Summary

Tasks for the day * Ask Electricien Belgium for more details (done) - update on 18/02 * Go see stones for the island worktop (done) * See the fridge at the Liebherr place (outside brussels) * Add the extra fences for the back (partially done) Electricians I have asked Electricien Belgium to provide

sonos

Connect Sonos to FreeNAS share

Yesterday, I wanted to add a bit of music collection to my spanking new FreeNAS server. Unfortunately, I got a 0x80070035 error code in Windows and a 900 error in the Sonos controller. This seemed weird since I had my Synology SMB share connecting just fine to Sonos. I read

tutorial

Restore a NIC from passthrough via CMD in ESXI

These days I'm trying ot set up a do-it-all server for the house. I have tried to configure the SFP+ NICs with direct access for VMs. Now, I've had a side effect: The NIC was not available for the management network. As a result, I could

house

House log - Select a Kitchen Extractor

We've been doing the kitchen fitting in the past weeks with a Belgian company. After selecting the design, we've run into the issue of selecting the evacuation system. Here are the steps: Internal vs external There's a fashion now to install internal extractors, with

house

House log - Progress 23/01

Today I went to the site to meet with Electricien Belgium. Progress The guys did good progress since last time: and after: I got to see how they pulled the small machine out of the hole: youtube: W-Z1j-BpUJM Electricians Today, Electricien Belgium came to do the connection. Both the contractors

house

House log - Progress 17/01

Today I went by and saw the ground prepared. I shot a quick movie: youtube: CJZ1JP8-9u0 I also took some pics, because it's the first time I see any progress on this plot! And here's the second one: HTH,

house

House log - Progress 13/01

Today I went by for the état des lieux and I took some pics: And here's the second one: HTH,