September 20, 2025
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Updated OS on Music Related Servers
Updated my music relay servers for IceCast and ShoutCast which run on Fedora Linux 41 currently and my server they connect to that I use for my streaming application that on Windows 2019 currently.
A bit more on the updte here: https://dhoytt.com/mainblog/2025/09/dhoytt-com-site-updates/
September 20, 2025
by dhoytt
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I updated my internet facing sites here at dhoytt.com.
I updated my Web Server to the latest security OS Rocky 9.6 patches along with taking PHP to a version that gets proper security updates and are compatible with my WordPress themes and plugins. I then updated the plugins and themes as well as taking WordPress to its latest version and then updated all my network sites on WordPress..
In parallel I also updated my music relay servers for IceCast and ShoutCast which run on Fedora Linux 41 currently and my server they connect to that I use for my streaming application that on Windows 2019 currently.
All these integrated systems are up running and interacting together after these updates as they had been before but hopefully more responsive and secure.
September 6, 2025
by dhoytt
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That’s right this Saturday afternoon going back ro some “Old School” Hip-Hop, R&B and a bit of rock but mainly the first two genres from ‘70’s to early ‘90’s and a few others hear and there.
Here you can see whats coming up and what’s playing currently: https://dhoytt.com/snake-ice-radio-blog/now-playing/
Artists like Sweet Sensation, Gap Band, Whodini, The Egyptian Lover, Heatwave, Cheryl Lynn, The Knack and so many more like that. Lets have some Old School fun.
September 3, 2025
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Pickling Cucumbers From Garden & Tri Tip
Need to do more pickling to not waste so many cucumbers from my garden. I wait too long sometimes to include in salads, which leads to waste.
For this batch of pickling from the garden I included habanero, Anaheim peppers and basil along with garlic cloves from the store. Put the mixture in balsamic vinegar , salt, pepper and into a container.
I’ll try a different mixture for the next batch this was spur of the moment and I ended up immediately using some of the pickled cucumbers on a tri tip sandwich which was delicious.
The tri tip I cooked Monday.
August 23, 2025
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Cleaning Up Backyard Gardens and Yard
Gardens getting a bit out of control with weeds and certain plants crowding others out so cleaned them up.
Took a few hours plus but it needed to be done even though it reached 104 degrees Fahrenheit today. Started about 9:30 in the morning and finished about 1:30 in the afternoon.
Dipped the pool for a while right afterwards before heading to the stores and running errands.
Now the items I want to get nutrients and grow will not have as much competition plus will not be overshadowed by the overgrowth.
I also planted some corn I started from seed and replanted a pole bean plant I accidentally dug up from the east vegetable garden. The bean plant came from the 3 sisters plants bundle of beans, squash and corn from east garden. Then moved it to the west vegetable garden.
July 31, 2025
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Music Server Back and Streaming
Well the clone of the system was going fine and hit the 100 percent mark with the data drive and then seemed to panic when it went to the boot drive. I’ll have to review the log files. Either way I’m bringing the music server back online!
I’ll review what the issue is with the cloning later. Never had many issues cloning system with Clonezilla before.
Enjoy the sounds!
July 30, 2025
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Music Server MAintenance
Cloning the music server with Clonezilla so it will be down temporarily. This is my first time doing a clone in this fashion not sending the image to a storage disk and then uploading that image. I’m attempting to go from the server directly to the disk on a XCP-ng. I may go the old route and shoot it over to an NFS share if things don’t work out.
June 23, 2025
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Linux Workstation Repairs
My main Linux workstation started having serious errors pointing to memory issues but then even after I thought I had clearly rectified the memory issues both the boot disk and data disk started complaining about issues and the system was dragging. I built this system back in the end of 2020 to the beginning of 2021.
A few days ago I had updated the Fedora Linux OS with the procedure listed at this URL https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/upgrading-fedora-offline/ to go from Fedora 41 to Fedora 42 successfully. I have used this procedure many times going from Fedora 37 onward on my workstation and some VMs so I don’t think that was an issue.
Since so many components were complaining I checked the power supply. I didn’t feel like tearing down one of my legacy workstations and taking the power supply out of that for a test as I wanted to keep them whole to sell or pass on to a deserving soul, so I purchased a new 1050 Watt power supply.
The IPMI logs had some generic power supply warnings that I think were more related to not turning on an item in the bios than actual hard errors. Replacing the power supply I did notice that there was an issue with the 8 pin cable going to my XFX AMD Radeon
RX 580 graphics card with one pin clearly out of the socket but that wouldn’t have caused the issues I was seeing.
The disk errors persisted when I replaced the power supply and though the IPMI log power supply general error persisted a couple of sensor readings did go from red to green and this is in the VCCM area that controls the voltage to the memory. I noticed this sensor go red when I had the faulty memory in there as well, which I shall remember from here on out and I never considered as a troubleshooting step or indicator. Pays to look up those settings if you don’t know them.
I blew out all of my RAM slots PCIE slots, fans etc. with canned air, I even had to alcohol wipe down a stick of RAM because I had two indicating they had issues. One stick of RAM came back good after that but the other remained failed.
Now feeling I had successfully concluded the bad RAM issue. I tackled the hard drive problems. Switching and reseating the slots cables etc. did take away the errors on my data drive which is of course my “/home” but not the errors on my boot drive. Switching back to the original PCIE slot the same issue persisted with my boot drive.
I didn’t see any fresh errors from the SMART disk utility and the SCSI sense errors seemed to clear but it appears that there’s still some block errors fsck didn’t fix. I could boot into live Workstation Fedora 42 media mount and perform an fsck of /root to fix those block errors but I haven’t been feeling well and the reboots take forever since I have my SAS HBA controller that takes while to boot as it interacts and makes itself available to the motherboards bios and I have to constantly go into the bios or hit F11, flip over the PC etc.
Since this is the weekend I can’t order a SAS 15k 12gps HDD to match my existing boot drive so I picked up a SATA SSD for my boot drive temporarily. The way I build my personal systems the last 30 years is separate boot and data drives and with Linux it makes it simple to upgrade the OS.
I just need to install whatever version of Linux I have, mount that to the boot disk I have /root, /boot and swap (optional these days) make sure I use the same user name etc., update fstab and I’m up and running with all my configs once I login with that user name. I also copy that data to my NAS systems so in case of emergency I can restore from there. Then I make sure I install the same packages and if I need to modify and files in /etc I have copies of them most of the time somewhere on my data drive.
The other issue I had is that my other workstation a Windows 10 system kept having issues burning the Linux ISOs/DVDs with either Rufus or Balena Etcher utilities. I even tried the DD option with Rufus which is at the block level but that didn’t work either.
I wanted to burn a version of the Fedora 42 server onto USB instead of the workstatiion flavor of Fedora because the workstation installer didn’t let you select the filsesystem type, they just defaulted to btrfs filesytem and I wanted to use EXT4 and LVM. I like the idea behind btrfs and will play with it later.
I ended up installing Workstation to the SSD drive booted from there and installed Balena Etcher and then created a USB Fedora 42 installation boot USB. Then reinstalled with the server version.
After installing Fedora 42 Server version to the SSD and mounting my data /home drive I installed my usual SW packages, made sure desktops and desktop switchers worked and I was back in business. Took a little too much time as I had to go to the store to get my SSD and power supply plus each boot was like 10 plus minutes, reconfiguring the power cables, plus I had to install some new RGB case fans on the bottom . This is where my penchant for redundancy comes in as I had duplicate AsiaHorse Matrix 360 fans to swap in.
Next I’ll mount and fsck my 15K SAS boot drive at some point when I have time. Could be a while since I have a lot of projects and fires in the works right now! Then I’ll determine if I need to order another drive. Sometime this year I had intended to up my NAS capacity and upgrade the NAS utility SW as well. I get more issues with my workstations that may be a project as well but with inflation and tariffs I will need to be diligent and keep and eye on prices and do my research on motherboards, CPUS and drives and possibly HBAs.
Linux workstation specs just in case you’re interested:
June 19, 2025
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Boat is Ready After Maintenance
Took my boat in for annual maintenance a bit late but it’s ready to go! Time to get some fishing in soon hopefully.
June 14, 2025
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Reolink Doorbell Zoneminder Integration Easy
I just integrated my Reolink doorbell camera into Zoneminder and it was easy once I knew where the proper settings were to enable an rtsp stream on the Reolink.
I specifically went with Reolink Video Doorbell WiFi https://reolink.com/product/reolink-video-doorbell-wifi plugged into a CyberPower UPS along with the Reolink chime in case of power outages. With the UPS I could bypass the battery Reolink doorbell camera which seemed to do away with the physical network option if I wanted it.
I switched to the Reolink doorbell after my longtime Ring doorbell camera started glitching with false positives during sunny moments. I wouldn’t mind switching back to Ring if the hardware allowed you to access the stream and integrate with 3rd party CCTV software because it seems they have the remedy for the sun issues with their recent cameras.
There may be a way to integrate with Ring doorbell cameras and Zoneminder that just isn’t readily apparent to me. Even after switching to Reolink doorbell camera after I heard it was compatible with Zoneminder no one had clear definitive steps! Searching around after I picked up the Reolink I thought I had made a mistake. I couldn’t find steps to integrate the Reolink doorbell camera with Zoneminder.
Reolink themselves said Zoneminder (can’t find the page now) was compatible with their doorbell camera but was unclear about how to integrate the two. Every post I found after searching the web devolved into talking about Reolink non-doorbell cameras. Even the Zoneminder Wiki just showed the Reolink IP cameras.
This site https://www.rushworth.us/lisa/?p=10211 did alert me to the fact that there was an option to enable the the RTSP stream on the Reolink though I had to search for the location since they didn’t give the steps of how to get there from the Apps home page. I now notice more discussion in Reolink’s forums as well so make sure to check those out.
I could not find a guide on the Reolink apps options that would have pointed out these other options from the company.
The steps are simple to add Reolink doorbell camera if you already have Zoneminder and Reolink with the mobile app running. I will not go into setting up Zoneminder or Reolink.
First in the Reolink mobile app (IOS) go, Home -> Device Name (should say “Device Info” at the top) -> Network Information- > Advanced -> takes you to the following screen where you select RTSP
After selecting RTSP I tested the stream in VLC rtsp://<user-name>:<password>@<ip.adress>
Test in VLC Media -> Open Network Streams -> enter rtsp://<user-name>:<password>@<ip.adress>.
Takes a number of seconds to come up and then voila
Partial Reolink Image taken from VLC.
Now take that same URL rtsp://<user-name>:<password>@<ip.adress> and input it into Zoneminder’s source path with your other options you use with your other Zoneminder camera feeds.
Zoneminders Console https://<zoneminder_url>/zm/index.php?view=console -> Add -> Name (Reolink doorbell or whatever you wish) -> Source (enter in Reolink doorbell URL) rtsp://<user-name>:<password>@<ip.adress>. All the other settings are at your discretion, I used the settings I setup for my other feeds.
There you are now done!
