Unifi settings to connect Home Assistant Bridge to Homekit

That’s a short one for Unifi (I’m on Network version 8.1.113) users struggling with the connection between the Home Assistant Bridge and Apple Homekit. In my installation, the connection attempt constantly ran into a timeout. First of all make sure the port of the HASS Bridge is enabled in your firewall rules. In my case it’s port 21064, which should be the default one. In your Network settings, enable Multicast DNS and IGMP Snooping for the involved VLANs:...

May 23, 2024

Automating Photoprism Indexing

If you’re an avid user of the open-source image library Photoprism, you know how convenient and powerful it can be for managing and organizing your photo collection. However, keeping your library indexed and up to date manually can be a tedious task. Thankfully, with a simple cronjob in Linux, you can automate the indexing process and ensure your Photoprism library stays current without any manual intervention. Indexing with Cron Create the shell-script auto_index....

April 8, 2024