Scam+ Not Working in Hellobox 6

Scam+ can stop working in Hellobox 6 for many reasons. In this article I'm going to explain 1 reason for it and how to fix it. I bought my Hellobox 6 from Ali Express and it had 2 years of free Scam+ service included into the price.

Few months ago, before the Scam+ expiry date it couldn't connect to the server and my Hellobox 6 was useless. The status of the Scam+ was always initialing.  

Something went wrong / There was a glitch, try again in a few seconds error in Google Nest Mini

 

I have a Google Nest Mini connected to my smart home and in the past few days, it was not executing my commands most of the time. Below are the error messages which google assistant gave me.

"Something went wrong. Try again in a few seconds."

"There was a glitch. Try again in a few seconds."

This was becoming a very annoying thing to me and decided to search for this error.

My journey to Off Grid Solar systems - Part 3

Please read My journey to Off Grid Solar systems part 1 & Part 2 if you haven't done it already. In this article we're going to check how all these pieces comes together. To show you that I would like to present below diagram. Please note that this is a basic diagram and with related to the laws of where you currently live in this could be bit different.

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My journey to Off Grid Solar systems part 2

Please read My journey to Off Grid Solar systems part 1 If you haven't done it already. In this article, lets discuss how we can purchase necessary items.

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To build an off-grid solar system you need these basic parts.

How to move Sonoff smart switch between wireless networks

 

I'm having Sonoff T0 UK Wifi Smart Switches all over my house and recently I wanted them to be connect to a different Wi-Fi network. I was planning to move all of them from my 4G router to my new Fibre router for smooth operation and doing so, I can take my 4G router anywhere I want without disturbing my smart switches.

There are few important things to be remembered when you're moving these devices between wireless networks and I like to share them with you before I explains the procedure.

How to stop video auto play on FaceBook 2022

In this article I'm going to explain how you can stop video auto play on Facebook App for Android.

 

 

 

My journey to Off Grid Solar systems part 1

As some of you might already know, I’m from a tiny island in the Indian ocean called “Sri Lanka”. Due to the current economy crisis in Sri Lanka, government started power cuts throughout the country hoping to save some fuel which was used to generate power. (Yes, fossil fuel plays a large role in my country) Please check the following graph related to daily electricity generation in Sri Lanka.

 

How to remove shared permissions from OneNote

 

In this short article, I'm going to explain how you can get rid of the permission you have already granted to your OneNote notebooks for others.

To change the current permission, you have to go to "File" menu & choose "Share" or you can click on the "Share" button in top right hand corner.

Can't Add Credit/Debit Card To Play Station Store

 

Years biggest Play Station store sale is happening right now. I might write a entire post about it later but have you ever try to grab a deal through Play Station store ?

If you're from a country where Sony has a official Play Station store consider your self as lucky. For most of us purchasing something from Play Station store is a complicated process.

The term 'Connect-AzAccount' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet

I was trying to connect to Azure for the first time using power shell the other day and ended up with below error message.

 


Connect-AzAccount : The term 'Connect-AzAccount' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again. 

At line:1 char:1 

+ Connect-AzAccount 

+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (Connect-AzAccount:String) [],
  CommandNotFoundException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException 

The command I was using to connect was Connect-AzAccount

Play At Home - Ratchet & Clank™ for PS4

 

Sony's Play at Home initiative is back this year by giving away Ratchet & Clank™ PS4 game free for everyone.

This offer will only available until 31st march 2021.

You can get it through your PS4 by going into play station store or use your computer to log into https://store.playstation.com

 

Is that it ? No, wait.

Play At Home - Free PS4 games

During the pandemic Sony has decided to offer 2 games for free to all PS4 users. These are not PS Plus games you usually get monthly. Here are the games which you will get for this offer.

Uncharted™: The Nathan Drake Collection for PS4

Journey™ for PS4 & PS3

Don't like free games ? There is an Easter sale going on in Play Station store too.

Download Detroit: Become Human Free For PS4

Great news for PS Plus members. Detroit: Become Human digital deluxe edition is now available for download under monthly free games on PlayStation Plus. 

Digital Deluxe Edition includes:

• Heavy Rain on PS4™ (Bonus Game)
• Digital art book.
• Digital Deluxe Soundtrack.
• Avatars.
• Cyber Life and Main Character PS4™ dynamic themes.

This game will be available to download until end of July 2019.

Pioneer USB Error 23

Recently I have used my 16 GB Toshiba USB flash drive to create a windows boot image using Rufus. Before doing that it was used on my car audio player (Pioneer DEH-2400UB). I have formatted the USB drive in FAT32 mode and copied all my music back to it. Once I plug it into the car audio player it was throwing an error 23.

Happy SysAdmin Day !

July 25, 2014 is the 15th Annual System Administrator Appreciation Day and here are some reasons to recognize your system admins.

Best Clock widget for Windows XP

Although Microsoft has stop providing support and updates to Windows XP since 8th of April 2014, still there are lot of people who uses it. For them to have multiple clocks widget in there desktop is a nightmare. There are very few free software that allows you to have multiple clocks displaying multiple time zones which supports windows XP. You can have windows sidebar and gadgets and also multiple clocks for latest Microsoft Operating systems. This post is to provide you the best free Clock widget for a computer which still runs on Windows XP. 

Missing Backup UI In Windows Server 2012

For older windows server operating systems like windows server 2003, backup program call "NTBackup" was there under the system tools section when it was installed for the first time. In Microsoft's latest windows server operating system called "Windows Server 2012" Windows Server Backup is not installed on default. It's located as a "feature" and need to be installed separately. You can do it by going in to the server manager window and choosing "Add Roles and Features" under the "Manage" menu item. But today's post is not about installing windows server backup feature. It's about recovering from a missing user interface for the windows server backup on Windows Server 2012.

BatteryBar Free Battery Meter software

BatteryBar is one of the best free battery meter software you can find for display information about the status of your laptop battery. The current stable version of BatteryBar is 3.5.7 released on June 1, 2013. Currently this software only runs in windows so, bad luck for the users who uses different platform. It also has a paid version which has more features if you're interested. But the free version just work fine for me. It's more accurate than the built in battery meter for windows and display whole lot more details.

How To Set Time On PBX In a Flash

PBX in a flash is well known free open source PBX system. In this article I'm going to explain how to set the system time correctly and how to let it sync with a NTP (Network Time Protocol) server. Which will sync my PBX systems time with selected internet time servers automatically and will keep the correct time always.This will allow you to apply day light saving settings (If you're in US) automatically and will allow "Time Conditions" to run properly on the PBX. To do this I'm going to use a web based tool called Webmin which will install automatically when you're installing the PBX.

Windows 8 Consumer Preview

The Operating system giant Microsoft releases their latest creation as Windows 8 Consumer Preview which will allow you to download and try their latest Windows operating system for free. The first different you will noticed after installing it on your computer is the new Metro UI which will replace your standard desktop and start menu. Also multi-touch features on the operating system allows users to interact with it in more interesting way.There are lot of new features in there to keep the user attached to the computer all the time. With all this please keep in your mind that this consumer previews eventually expire and will block all your access to your programs and stored files and folders. The best thing is to do is to have this on your secondary computer or may be in dual boot mode on a other hard disk partition. But according to the digging I have done it will most probably active until next year which is 2013 so, you have plenty of time to check it out.