January 28, 2022

How to backup your Unifi Dream Machine (Pro) config automatically with Synology or any other UNIX device

Most owners of a Unifi Dream Machine (Pro) know about the automatic backup feature Ubiquti offers in their UDM(P) interface. The feature creates automatic backups of all your config settings and stores it locally on the device. So you can manually download it from there before you change something. But what if you forgot about […]

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October 21, 2019

Automatic backups for Raspberry Pis to a Synology NFS share

Problem to solve: If you have some Raspberry Pis at home and you like tinkering around with them like I do, then you probably know that feeling that all of a sudden nothing seems to be working as it used to be and you want to re-roll to a certain point and just start all […]

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October 11, 2019

Install nodejs & npm on Raspberry Pi 2, 3 or 4

First update the Debian apt package repository to include the NodeSource packages: Now that we have added the NodeSource package repository, we can move on and install Node.js! After it finished validate install by typing: You should get a response like "$ 12.10.0". Now you are good to go to run npm.

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