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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:...

Maybe it will help some of you, but I just had an error updating 2.8.0 on my bare metal Paperless NGX instance. When trying to migrate the changes, the following error occured: Conversion between UTF8 and SQL_ASCII is not supported In fact, my Postgres database was set to SQL_ASCII instead of UTF-8, so it helped to rebuild the database. Make sure to backup/snapshot everything in case something goes wrong, I managed to kill my instance while fiddling around with this 😄...

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....