Should anyone ask, building a whole home audio system using Chromecast Audio

I'm quite enjoying the cold here: been using the winter to work on house plans, automation and air sensors. Then last week I woke up to the news this morning that Google is discontinuing the Chromecast Audio. I've been using two of these and the versatility is amazing - love being able to group rooms …

Should anyone ask, creating timelapses and FFmpeg and a Hikvision PTZ camera

As the build continues I thought it would be interesting to experiment with creating timelapses of the process. There's already a Hikvision Pan-Tilt-Zoom camera on site and wired up. This post looks at the current (rather string and glue) approach to creating timelapses. I'm currently snapping a picture every two seconds [plus a bit of …