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Upgrading a Reolink, Dahua, Swann NVR: Three Ways to Add Smarter AI Video Search

Posted byby Abu Shafi
September 26, 2026
7 minute read

Your existing Reolink, Dahua, Swann PoE system may still record perfectly well. The problem appears when you need to find one person, vehicle or incident and the only practical method…

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My Personal AI Agent on a Raspberry Pi: How OpenClaw, Browser Automation, and a Real Estate Research Agent Work for Me

Posted byby Abu Shafi
May 17, 2026
5 minute read

I want AI to feel personal and help me with day-to-day work. Tools like n8n are useful when you want to automate steps in a workflow, but that was not…

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I have setup n8n in my Synology NAS

Posted byby Abu Shafi
October 15, 2025
4 minute read

Why n8n? I’ve been exploring ways to build AI Agents – workflows that can follow my custom logic and complete tasks automatically. I wanted something that could run 24/7 on…

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Raspberry Pi5 and Ai

Posted byby Abu Shafi
February 23, 2025
4 minute read

Install Raspberry PI5 Ai Kit I have a Raspberry Pi AI Kit, which includes:– an M.2 HAT+– a pre-installed Hailo-8L AI module This installs the following dependencies:– Hailo kernel device driver…

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Setting Up Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi 5 with NVMe SSD

Posted byby Abu Shafi
February 5, 2025
3 minute read

Setting up Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi 5 with an NVMe SSD involves a two-step process. First, we use an SD card to update the firmware, then install Home…

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Home Assistant Raspberry Pi CM4 – installation guide

Posted byby Abu Shafi
February 2, 2022
3 minute read

In my previous discussion I wanted to install Home Assistant on Raspberry pi cm4 module. Due to supply shortage I was not able to do the installation. But this changed…

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- Other experiments

Tasmota on esp-01 (esp8266)

Posted byby Abu Shafi
August 5, 2021
2 minute read

I found few old 1st generation ESP-01. I thought lets try to flash this Tasmota firmware and test if it works or not. Flashing preparation These ESP modules are sitting…

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Prototype 1: Air Quality sensors

Posted byby Abu Shafi
July 16, 2021
1 minute read

This is part of my journey to create “Remote Air Quality sensor for Dhaka, Bangladesh“

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Extending LoRa network by adding antenna

Posted byby Abu Shafi
July 15, 2021
1 minute read

The Things Indoor Gateway (TTIG) is designed to be a fully compliant, ultra low-cost LoRaWAN gateway, with WiFi as the backhaul. The gateway comes with a wall plug, and can…

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