Tutorial: How to Install Home Assistant on a Generic Linux System

Are you as baffled as I am about Home Assistant installation? Got a generic Linux system and are not sure where to begin? Well, look no further, as i am setting out here the necessary steps, as i identified them through my recent research. Home Assistant is one of the …

Upgrading the Hard Disk in a Verbatim Gigabit NAS External Hard Drive

Introduction I have been using a 500GB Verbatim  Gigabit NAS External Hard Drive for backup purposes for the last few years with no problem – I can recommend it to anyone. Now, that I ran out of space I looked into the possibility of replacing its hard disk for a …

Quick fix: MPLAB X Cannot Connect to PicKit2 or PicKit3

Problem After an update of some software on a 64 bit Windows computer you might run into the following message when you start MPLAB X: Also, when you try to program your device it fails. PICkit2: Loading code from F:/Projects/PIC/LilBang.X/dist/default/production/LilBang.X.production.hex…Loading symbols from F:/Projects/PIC/LilBang.X/dist/default/production/LilBang.X.production.cof…Loading completedConnecting to programmer…The programmer could not be …