Category: Technology

Recently, I got 4 new hue ambiance lights for the living room. It costs around $100 bucks but that’s not a big deal am I right? Just kidding, it is a lot of money. I only get to spend that much very rarely. The lights in the living room can change color temperatures. Now, you can even sync the lights to music by using a 3rd party app. If you don’t want it to be synced but want some disco lights, you can use the app on a PC called Huetro and navigate to ambiances> club > select rooms > start. You can also use the app called LightDJ on the google play store. So far, my experience with the lights is really good and I plan on putting some light strips under the couch or behind the TV. Now, I am thinking of expanding our smart home to different products like the August Door Lock, Nest Learning Thermostat, and a smart vacuum. The smart vacuum could be useful once my mom finally lets my bunny live in the house with me so the smart vacuum can clean up its droppings. But when it goes number one, I have to clean that up manually. So I hope you enjoy my blog guys! Bye guys!

2 weeks ago, we noticed our internet was slow, so we played with the router settings to get our internet fast again.After 2 days, our internet shut off completely. We called ComCast if they could fix the problem but it still didn’t work. We then tried replacing our modem to see if it would fix the problem. It worked just for 7 hours and it broke AGAIN. We decided to restart the modem and that was it. We had no internet for a week so we decided to switch over to AT&T. They said they would install optic fiber cable internet which blew my mind because it was 1000 mpbs internet or you can call is 1 gigabit internet. Yes people, this internet is 900x faster than your internet. This means I can run 10 4K HD games, have 15 video conferences, 30 people surfing the web., 25 people watching 720p videos on YouTube, and have 5 Windows servers. Now that is a lot! Oh and we also have smart home devices so our internet would be in some good use. And they also say it is just $60 dollars! That’s right $60. But we all know they will increase the price over time to $80 dollars. They also claim it should be 1000 mpbs internet but it may be actually 600-900 mpbs. When the guy finished installing the internet, the internet was fast. I also had to reconfigure all my port forwarding. Now my servers will operate better. This also means I will hog up all the internet. The real speed I found out was around 200 mpbs which is disappointing because our devices need more bandwidth.  I hope you enjoy this blog today guys! Bye guys!

It was 3 weeks ago when I made the dumbest decision to downgrade my computer from windows 10 to windows server 2012 R2. I did the installation and it worked. I made a domain and my website was running on it. However, this came to an end. I was going to update and enable the update feature and it said you were 108 updates behind. I let it run and after I came back in 4 hours, it said updating at 3 percent. I freaked out and let it run overnight and I went to sleep. The next day I woke up in terror. The PC was still updating at 3 percent. When I got back from school, I searched up on Google how to reset the C drive in cmd prompt. When I restarted the PC a couple times, it thought I might have broke the hard drive so it said diagnosing your PC. I then went to the troubleshoot page and pressed on CMD repair mode. I then typed in the command to reset the drive. It then said now resetting at 19 percent, I wasn’t patient enough so I shutdown my PC and it was the dumbest thing I ever did in my whole life. I booted it back up and it said fixing your PC, then it shutdown. This happened forever as a loop then I found out I deleted the repair files. I then shutdown my PC. Got my USB drive and put windows server 2019 on it so I can upgrade it again. It didn’t work so I opened up my computer, took out the hard drive, and it was heavy but gladly it used a SATA connector. I got distracted by the ram and took it out to look at it. When I tried putting it back in however, it didn’t snap in. I booted the PC with the ram loose and the PC started beeping but the screen didn’t come on. I was like horrified. I pushed the ram in and gave up hope. The ram still didn’t work. I then tried this for the past few days and I concluded my PC was dead. Now, I extracted the ram and the hard drive and man the hard drive was heavy. I ran to my families old computer and I plugged it in. Now, I am opening it and putting a new hard drive in it. I am now running Ubuntu OS from Linux corp. Now, I am gonna tell my dad to buy me a hard drive connector to USB so I can plug it into my dad’s computer. After that I will wipe it and then plug it into my family’s computer so I can install windows server 2019. Worst time in my life. Maybe my friends were right. They say I’m not a computer expert and this happens. They were right, I’m not good at computers.

Today, my dad and I went to install the Geenie doorbell. Our old doorbell had problems so we decided to pick up a 40 dollar smart doorbell at Walmart. when we took off the front cover of our existing doorbell, the first problem came. The company which installed it painted it so we coudn’t get it out. My dad used a wedged faced screw driver to cut off the paint that was holding the doorbell plate to the wall. My dad found a small opening in the side of the plate so he put used a wedge screw driver to peel the plate off. The plate fell off then what inside was 2 wires. Those wires are for transferring power from the negative terminal to the positive terminal. So which cable was the signal? Maybe it went with the positive terminal because the negative terminal would supply power. And the power would then come out of the doorbell and into the positive terminal before going to the chime box. When setting up, the manual required us to mount a transformer in the chime box. The transformer wires would connect to the TRANS and FRONT port. But me and my dad didn’t care and didn’t want to open up the chime box. So we just decided to continue the installation. Once the installation was finished, The doorbell turned on. When I was holding up the doorbell, my hand felt a spark. Oops, my dad didn’t turn off the circuit breaker and that was ON PURPOSE. We were also required to shut off power to the doorbell but we didn’t. The reason why was because there was no switch for the doorbell. So when we first plugged it in to the wires and wired it all up, the doorbell booted up and was flashing rapidly. I scanned the QR code and then the doorbell lights started turning to a solid blue. Installation complete. I like this doorbell but the talk wasn’t working right but I still like it. So I hope you enjoyed my blog guys! Bye guys!

Today, I will talk about our house. Right now we are in the 21st century, and that means houses are getting smarter everyday. So our house is just starting as a smart home. We have a smart home control panel which is a phone taped to the wall LOL, smart lights, Alexa, smart TV’s, smart washing machine, and good security cameras. Now let’s talk about smart lights, our ALEXA can control them so I can say “Alexa, turn on kitchen lights” and the lights would be on. I can also make them flash to a dance party. Now Alexa here can do lots of things. When our smart light motion sensor is triggered, Alexa can send an announcement saying it’s triggered. Our smart TV can be controlled using our phones. Our smart washing machine can be remotely controlled by a phone but I don’t know how to do it yet.  So now I was thinking we can get a smart doorbell from Ring so then I can talk to people outside on my porch. I also want the new nest learning thermostat so it can LEARN what temperatures you like so I can go to it automatically. So I hope you enjoy my blog guys! Bye guys!

Yesterday, my camera finally arrived. It was a PTZ camera so it could move around. When I tried setting up the camera, it told me error setting up camera. I then tried connecting it to the LAN port on the WiFi router, that didn’t work. But then I tried tracking down its IP Address and went to its viewing page. And guess what, browser to new. I was thinking whats wrong with this camera, so then I used IE. It said I needed to install active X controls and then windows 10 said the active X controls are not functional on your computer. So what a terrible camera. My mom then decided to buy me one smart light and another camera. I agreed and now I am happy again. I just wish the next camera I buy, I hope it meets my expectations. The camera that’s arriving on Friday at 9pm. I am very pleased with that and I hope that our house will become smarter. Now, we have the Alexa, Hue smart lights, and 3 cameras. The one that is arriving on Friday will count as one so we will have 4 cameras after Friday! So I hope you enjoy my blog guys! Bye guys!