Rick Kendall
I’m Rick. I’m from Burnley originally, I live in Cyprus these days, and this is where I write up whatever I’ve been messing about with.
Home automation, music, the bike, a bit of travel, the odd bit of cooking, the football, and a fair amount of drivel. It’s all hobby stuff and I’m not an expert at any of it, so take it as how I do things rather than how they ought to be done.
Nothing here is for sale, there’s no mailing list, and you can’t comment. It’s a notebook that happens to be public.
Smart Home
Home Assistant automations, dashboards, sensors, and the occasional one that only works on a Tuesday.
Motorbike
Riding, maintenance, and jobs that took three times as long as planned.
Food
Occasional cooking. What worked, what did not, and the odd thing worth making again.
Recent posts
- Visitor Insights: why I wrote my own website stats
Every website I run has the same problem: I have no real idea who visits it. Plesk does come with stats, AWStats and one other, but I’ve never…
- Putting the house on the website
Live readings from the house, on a web page, without opening anything up to the internet. How it works, what I left off on purpose, and the two…
- TvStreme, my own TV app
I’ve been building a TV app for Android TV and Fire TV, called TvStreme. It’s a streaming player for Xtream Codes services, the sort that give you a…
- GlassDe.sk: cutting software for glass workshops
I retired, and almost immediately started on the list. Not a bucket list of places to see, but a list of things I’ve always wanted to make. Software…
- BandBook: one shared songbook for the whole band
Anyone who’s played in a band knows the admin is the real enemy. Who’s got the latest lyrics? What key are we doing that in? Which Friday can…