Plex - Management tools

Plex is a great media server, but sometime is necessary to have something extra to perform some operations, like for example extract the list of movies available on the server.

There is something out there, let see some choices.

Repairs - bread toaster

Our current bread toaster, a West Bend Model 78824, has now 6 years (given or taken) and half of it stopped to work.

One of the two levers is not engaging anymore.
So ... let's repair it !! 

Home Automation - remotely controlling lights from HA server via ssh

In order to control lights are years I'm using Heyu and HA-Bridge, running on a server.

Originally (and possible it will return there) was hosted by Opus, my server.

It is quite  a while now is running over a Raspberry Pi.
This article is about how to control X10 via Heyu from another computer in the network (hint, the network is not exposed to the outside)

The Old Lady Project - Introduction

Years ago (I think was the 2009) I  did buy, with the idea to restore it, an old tube radio, immediately called "The Old Lady".

The radio is a Truetone D-1001.

However the electronic was really in bad shape and of course, who the heck has time to work on it ?

So the Old Lady went in a box, waiting.