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New take on installing Linux on Beelink Mini MX S905 android TV box

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 In 2021 I have already installed Linux on my Beelink Mini MX and published an article about it here . Now I wanted to use it and turned out that WiFi and Bluetooth is not working 😢. So I have started again and figured out, how to make it work.  Here you have the results of my experiences with CoreELEC , LibreELEC and Armbian . It was not easy, it took me approximately 2 month to get the best possible out of this little and now outdated hardware.
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Installing Zabbix from docker containers

 I needed to refresh my aged Zabbix installation and I wanted to use a docker based solution, to keep it isolated from other components in the network. There are some caveats that need some time to resolve.
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Installing Armbian full fledged Linux on original Beelink MiniMX

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Beelink MiniMX is an Adnroid TV box, back from 2016, containing S905 system chip, 1 Giga RAM, 8 Giga eMMC, HDMI output, 2 USB 2.0 ports and a Gigabit ethernet. The original Android system which was shipped with the device, was very buggy, but even today you can upgrade the operating system to Linux. In this blog, we will show how you can install Ubuntu based Armbian linux on it, and how to make use of it as a desktop computer.
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Benchmarking Software NAS solutions (Windows Server, OMV, FreeNAS, Synology)

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I have an older Synology NAS at home, and I am planning to replace it with a custom built NAS. To decide which system to put on it, I have setup 5 different NAS solution in a virtual environment and measured how fast they are. There were two prerequisites to the candidates: they should support WSD and SMB Multichannel.
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Processing smart socket measurements with Zabbix

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After installing the Tasmota Firmware on my smart socket , it is time to process the measurement results by some application. At home I am using Zabbix, wich has goot graphing possibilities, can be used to set up triggers for specific events, and has a documented API, to retrieve historic data. In this post I will show how to add the energy monitoring measurements to Zabbix.
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Installing Tasmota firmware for the cheap BSD34 smart socket

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I have a lot of computers running at home, all connected to the same plug trough a distributor and I wanted to measure the amount of electricity they consume. I could use a $250 manageable PDU for this purpose, but I found it better to buy a $10  Tuya compatible 16A Smart Plug  and flash it with the  Tasmota  Firmware. In this article I describe, how to do it.
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Multigigabit situation, February 2020

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Multigigabit is a technology for wired LAN connections where the speed exceeds 1 Gbps. In the recent times a lot of new equipment was announced, supporting this technology, this article tries to summarize what is available today and on what price.
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