Category Archives: How-To

Move Google Contacts to Nextcloud Contacts

Posted on March 23, 2019 by

The process is easy. Go to the Google Contacts website: https://contacts.google.com/ Expand “More” and select “Export”. Export all or some of your contacts, but select vCard format and save to your Desktop. Go to your Nextcloud website’s Contacts app: https://<your-nextcloud-website&gt;.com/index.php/apps/contacts. … Continue reading →

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Add Nextcloud calendar to Google Calendar

Posted on January 6, 2019 by

Below is how to see (read-only) your Nextcloud calendars in Google Calendar. I do not believe Google supports writing to Nextcloud calendars from Google Calendar. This example is for my Calendar “Example Calendar”. From the calendar app page: https://your-nextcloud-server.com/index.php/apps/calendar/ Under … Continue reading →

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SmartRG router cheatsheet

Posted on November 24, 2018 by

The SmartRG router (supplied by Sonic ISP) has a bad user interface. There is no easy mode, just very network centric terminology to maneuver.  Local Server Walk-through Let’s say you plug in your laptop to Ethernet or connect to the … Continue reading →

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SmartRG network hard drive – SAMBA version too old

Posted on November 24, 2018 by

The SmartRG router (supplied by Sonic ISP) has the option of mounting a hard drive for access by all computers on the network via the SAMBA protocol. But the SmartRG router supplied has an old version of the SAMBA protocol, … Continue reading →

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Temporary fix for updating external HPFS/NTFS/exFAT hard drive’s permissions so Plex can access

Posted on November 3, 2018 by

When I plugged in my external hard drive that was on Windows to a Linux machine (Raspberry Pi 3), it was automatically mounted at /media/brian/Brian-HD, but the permissions were drw- — — 1 brian brian. I needed Plex to be able … Continue reading →

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Factory Resetting Nexlux LED Light Strip

Posted on September 23, 2018 by

The Nexlux LED Strip Lights sold on Amazon have a confusing set of “How to restore factory settings?” instructions First, to add a device, install their app (Magic Home Pro app on Google Play or Magic Home WiFi on App Store) and … Continue reading →

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Saving Tree Style Tabs into Bookmarks with Firefox

Posted on January 23, 2018 by

On Firefox, my favorite add-on is Tree Style Tabs (download), because you can see all of your tabs and their names tabs have hierarchy (parent > children > grandchildren) Once you use it, you will always want to use it, especially … Continue reading →

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