Ah it’s funny.  it’s the end of my first official day of annual leave for Christmas.  I had time to take off so I decided to extend my Christmas holidays by a little.

Staying true to form though, the first part of my time off was spent putting this video together for a local group called the Loving Life Choir.  Here are two of the members singing silent night.  With social distancing etc, this is about the most we could do for the choir right now.

(12) Silent Night – Loving Life Choir – YouTube

I did everything for this video. I recorded it, edited it, I defined the shots that I roughly wanted to get.  Emma, my wife captured the videos then I edited the clips and added the previously edited audio.  It’s not perfect by any stretch. But I’m neither a videographer, editor, audio engineer or professional musician for that matter.  But For my current skills in these areas, I think it’s okay.

On the technical side of things, I decided to upgrade my wireless network controller at home in the small hours of Sunday morning.  I couldn’t sleep and it was something that I had been putting off.  I’m running Ubiquity kit here in the house and it’s been a bit about a year since I updated the controller.  Unfortunately this latest version has quite a few changes that break my config.  I have, or rather I had, different networks and SSID’s attached to different access points.  This allows me to have different firewall rules for my cameras, my smart lights and the standard wireless network.  Also my smart lights are very particular about what channels of the 2GHZ band they want to work on so by having a specific SSID that they connect to makes it much easier to troubleshoot when something goes wrong.  I have some work to do now to replicate the old config on the new version of the Unifi controller software.  I’m looking forward to it though.  Now that I’ve figured out why all my smart lights have suddenly stopped working.  Perhaps I’ll document this to make it easier for others to find the solution.