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Harmony Smart Control won't turn off Playstation (updated 26/07/15)

[See 2nd option at the bottom for the alternative fix] If your Harmony remote won't turn off your PS3 using bluetooth (but turns on OK), modify the power settings for the Power Off so they like like mine below. Seems there is a bug in the Harmony software that mixes up the cross and circle depending on what region you're in.

How to change the firmware of a Dahua IP dome from Chinese to English

Test to see if your Synology NAS is using 4k sectors

Login using SSH/Telnet as 'root' with the admin user password and run the following command. ' fdisk -lu ' The first partition should start at 256, not 63 as shown in my example. You'll need a clean install of DSM in order to have the Diskstation automatically format your dives using the 4k advanced format . More info on data migration on the Synology website here .

Troublesome Dahua IP Camera access from OSX

If you're having trouble accessing your Dahua IP camera after recent Mac security updates to Safari, it might be worth trying a camera firmware update to resolve the issue? This worked for me on two different cameras. The cameras I updated were both IPC-HDB3200C that were running 2.210.0001.0.R, build : 2013-05-17. The firmware I used that fixed the blank screen issue on the iMAC's was General_IPC-HX3(2)XXX_Eng_P_V2.212.0000.0.R.20131206 which can be downloaded here .

Wrong date and time on Raspberry Pi running Domoticz

I recently booted up an old instance of Domoticz home automation software on one of my Raspberry Pi's with a PiFace interface. I noted that the time and date were out by three months and even though I had a valid network connection and pinging the NTP time servers was possible, the date and time would never update. I spent about 40 minutes on Mr Google trying various things and this is what worked. Login to your Pi using SSH Ensure your Pi can ping a time server ping 0.debian.pool.ntp.org Stop the NTP service sudo service ntp stop Force a time check sudo ntpd -gq Restart the NTP service sudo service ntp start Check the date and time ntptime Should now report back the correct date and time?  

Scrub your hard drives in your Synology NAS

I found an excellent post that I used on my DS209J when the volume crashed with no other log information. FYI, I've replaced with commands in that blog post with the correct ones for a 2-bay NAS where the volume is 'md2'. Login to your NAS with SSH (after enabling that feature under 'Terminal') and use root for the username and the admin password for the password. echo check > /sys/block/md2/md/sync_action

How To reset your Android Google account password

If you change your Google password online, there is no way to update it on your Android device as there is no settings menu you can go to to find the password (?). Simply click this link and choose ' Continue ' and it will provide you with a prompt on your device to update your password...easy. https://accounts.google.com/DisplayUnlockCaptcha