Author Archives: Brian Agrawal Goodacre

Plex loading local subtitles

Posted on 2018-01-13 by Brian Agrawal Goodacre

Plex tends to do a good job of loading local subtitle files (usually .srt) and it can even automatically load subtitles for you [2]. But sometimes, it will not load a file that is in your directory with your video … Continue reading →

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Nextcloud Snap Installation

Posted on 2018-01-07 by Brian Agrawal Goodacre

The Nextcloud installation page has two sets of instructions now: automatic and manual. Previously on this website, I have described the manual steps to setting up Nextcloud. It is a good learning experience and worth a try, but even better is … Continue reading →

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Sideloading Apps onto Fire TV

Posted on 2017-12-17 by Brian Agrawal Goodacre

Since the Amazon Fire TV is a device that runs Android, you can install any Android app onto your Fire TV, but to varying degrees of success. How to To get apps onto your FireTV, you can do it the … Continue reading →

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Setting up the Etekcity WiFi Smart Plug with the VeSync app and 2.4 GHz connection

Posted on 2017-12-13 by Brian Agrawal Goodacre

The Etekcity WiFi Smart Plug Mini Outlet with Energy Monitoring (2 Pack), Works with Amazon Alexa Echo, No Hub Required, 1 Minute to Set Up, White is a good smart outlet. It goes for about $30 for a pair [1]. … Continue reading →

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UPnP on Plex

Posted on 2017-11-29 by Brian Agrawal Goodacre

Getting your Plex server to use UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) will increase speeds, along with allowing it to run on more clients. For example, one Smart TV’s Plex app did not work until UPnP was enabled on the server’s … Continue reading →

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A Cruise Vacation’s not obvious and not needed essentials

Posted on 2017-09-04 by Brian Agrawal Goodacre

These are all of the things I wanted when I was on my last cruise. You can decide what will help you on your next cruise. Offline Data Offline map of your ports will be helpful when you are walking … Continue reading →

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Google Play on Kindle Fire

Posted on 2017-07-15 by Brian Agrawal Goodacre

The blog post on SaintLad.com made installing the Google Play Store and Services onto a new Amazon Kindle very straightforward. Helpful Advice This is a short link to visit to go directly to his website: https://goo.gl/YrJoSy apkmirror might say a newer version … Continue reading →

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Best Nextcloud 11 Links

Posted on 2017-01-15 by Brian Agrawal Goodacre

Getting Nextcloud ready is lots of fun, but getting it to a very stable state is tedious. I gathered the best of the best resources on the web from putting it up to backing it up. Installing LAMP server Follow … Continue reading →

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Red screen at night on Linux

Posted on 2016-11-29 by Brian Agrawal Goodacre

f.lux and Redshift are the two major players for making your laptop screen turn red. I had f.lux working on Linux Mint but recently upgraded to Linux Mint 18 and it stopped working. I cannot get the applet to show … Continue reading →

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Have Linux access Windows hard drive again

Posted on 2016-11-27 by Brian Agrawal Goodacre

In Windows 8 and 10, Microsoft added a “Fast Startup” feature that saves a state of the computer to disk. This is like Hibernation, which for a while has prevented Linux from mounting a Windows partition. This new feature makes … Continue reading →

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Brother printing blank pages on Linux

Posted on 2016-11-27 by Brian Agrawal Goodacre

The Brother HL 2140 is a good printer but getting it to work on Linux Mint is a bit of a hassle. There are many forums online with the problem of the Brother printing many blank pages. Finally, I found … Continue reading →

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Plex Media Server Review

Posted on 2016-11-26 by Brian Agrawal Goodacre

I am very impressed with the Plex Media server. It runs on all your operating systems but I have it running on Linux. It sets up the server and accessing the server through any of the Plex apps. It then … Continue reading →

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Google Ad Words Review for increasing page views

Posted on 2016-11-26 by Brian Agrawal Goodacre

Google Ad Words was an interesting experience. I had a $20 budget that I spread across multiple weeks. My blog has a specific audience so I had to buy views for specific terms like “OwnCloud”. There are many features like … Continue reading →

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Picking a Linux Distro for a Server

Posted on 2016-11-26 by Brian Agrawal Goodacre

An old laptop that is going to be running a home server is going to be limited on computing resources, so it is worth looking into running your server with as little overhead as possible. I was looking for the … Continue reading →

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Raspberry Pi OpenVPN Server

Posted on 2016-11-26 by Brian Agrawal Goodacre

I heard about the Raspberry Pi VPN on the Security Now! Podcast, but I found it a few months later when looking how to set up a VPN on (you guessed it) a Raspberry Pi. The set up is almost … Continue reading →

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