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Migrating Home Assistant from a Raspberry Pi 3B+ to VirtualBox on OS X

I was recently given a 2015 i7 Macbook Pro, 16GB ram/500GB SSD, with a huge LCD leak covering almost the entire screen. A replacement screen is about £500 and a risky repair which may or may not work, plus I don’t need another laptop, so I decided to give it a whirl as an HA…

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November 25, 2020Leave a commentDigital home, OS X

Siri unable to connect to HomeKit: “Hmm I don’t see anything connected”

I’ve enjoyed 6 months of well-behaved Siri on my iPhone X and then suddenly today I found that Siri couldn’t communicate with any HomeKit devices (Siri’s reply to anything HomeKit-related was “Hmm I don’t see anything connected”. Cue a fair bit of tedious trouble-shooting, I found that step 3 of this iMore article fixes it. The basic idea…

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March 13, 2018Leave a commentDigital home, iOS

Disable hyperlinks in OS X Notes app

September 11, 2017Leave a commentiOS, OS X

BarTunes stops working, error 16288, abort trap 6

I noticed today that BarTunes was no longer in my menu bar. Launching it caused a brief flicker in the menu bar but the app wouldn’t launch. Who knows how long it’s been gone? It’s one of those apps I use a lot, but only on some days (music days as opposed to radio days).…

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May 27, 2016Leave a commentDigital home, OS X

WordPress import fails with MySQL error #1064

So I had just exported a MySQL database, and immediately re-imported it to the same server into a new database. The import failed with an error.

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May 25, 2016Leave a commentOS X

Wake your password-protected screensaver using AppleScript

I’ve discovered that my previous attempt to automate Radium doesn’t entirely work if my password-protected screensaver was running. It seems that since OS X 10.9 disabling the password that way somehow causes the keyboard to remain ‘captured’ by ScreenSaverEngine

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May 19, 2016Leave a commentDigital home, OS X

Applescript and Radium

Launching the OS X radio app Radium automatically, including the ability to select AirPlay speakers as necessary.

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May 12, 2016Leave a commentDigital home, OS X

Play random iTunes at a certain time every day, or how to disable an OS X screensaver password using Automator

Every morning at 6am run Doug’s excellent Block Party script to create a playlist of 4 and 5 star songs from random albums.

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April 29, 2016Leave a commentDigital home, OS X

Philips Hue Siri voice control cannot find bridge

After months of turning my Philips Hue lights on and off using Siri, I found myself unable to set a scene today. This fixed it for me: – kill the Hue app on iPhone – go to settings -> HomeKit – click Edit and delete the home named “Home” – start Hue app – go to…

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April 26, 2016Leave a commentDigital home, iOS

You have mail – in terminal

If you don’t want the hassle of using terminal’s mail app, you can read and delete your system email with terminal commands.

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February 4, 2016Leave a commentOS X
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