Author: Richard Harvey

  • Systembridge: Monitoring the ultimate fridge magnet

    Systembridge: Monitoring the ultimate fridge magnet

    In the journey to creating my ultimate fridge magnet I realised I’d like a way to check in without having to actually walking over to it; I know, I know. Looking through the options in Homeassistant I came across Systembridge. A lightweight cross-platform application for monitoring your desktop that allows you to monitor and control your system. I needed…

  • The journey to the ultimate fridge magnet (Part 2)

    The journey to the ultimate fridge magnet (Part 2)

    The journey to ultimate fridge magnet (part 2) Sometimes when things aren’t going well it’s time to start again and see what you can do better.  So today I cracked. I reinstalled my old Linx 1010 and vowed to redo what I did and hopefully fix what I got wrong last time. Return of the…

  • The journey to the ultimate fridge magnet (part 1)

    The journey to the ultimate fridge magnet (part 1)

    I’ve watched a lot of YouTube over the years of creators with their fancy home assistant dashboard and a few years ago I used a guide to set up one that works for me and importantly had wife approval factor. Since setting it up I’ve tweaked it to my own liking adding badges and functions…

  • SuiteCRM: A PDF Guide (part 2)

    SuiteCRM: A PDF Guide (part 2)

    Since I wrote a guide for adding PDF functionality (here, if you missed it) I’ve had a few people ask if it is possible to do this but for bulk export. The answer fortunately is yes! As with the single version you have to go to your module path /var/www/html/suitecrm/custom/modulebuilder/packages/[PACKAGE NAME]/modules/[CUSTOM MODULE NAME] Also, before…

  • SuiteCRM: A PDF Guide

    SuiteCRM: A PDF Guide

    Note: since writing this post I’ve added a another entry on doing with with bulk PDFs to see part 2 of this blog click here. I’m a big advocate of open source so when my company wanted to investigate CRM, SuiteCRM was an obvious choice. However, occasionally things aren’t always as straightforward. The brief was simple,…