7 posts tagged with "macos"

How to setup an AirPlay server on a Raspberry Pi.

homebridge-telldus is a plugin for homebridge which allows you to control cheap 433MHz devices like wireless light switches and dimmers from Apple's Home integration. This is done through Telldus Live, which provides a free service and API integration for people who bought their devices like TellStick Net and TellStick ZNet Lite. It provides a very cheap way to control your house with Siri and Apple Home.

I was importing my photos from my iPhone to my MacBook running El Capitan, and I got errors saying some files were in an unrecognised format, and some pictures turned out completely weird.

What's sad is that the Photos app though that the pictures got successfully imported (apparently there was no integrity check), and so it reported back to iPhone that it could delete the photos after the "successful" import (according to the checkbox in the import dialog.)

Guess I'll have to manually delete each photo on the iPhone after manually checking that all photos are in fact imported successfully now...

I struggled a bit to find out how to store my Photo Library on a NetGear ReadyNAS. SMB did not work, and SSHFS did not work either. I was unable to get AFP working too, and I saw that it was discouraged.

The solution was to mount the drive using NFS. Then I created a sparse bundle disk image with a Mac OS Extended (Journaled) partition with an Apple Partition Map, on the NFS mounted partition, and moved my Photos Library.photoslibrary onto the mounted image. Everything seems to be running fast and smoothly. (I'm on a gigabit LAN.)

It should be noted that I use ext4 for my NAS partitions, don't know if it matters.

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Here's a way to use an NTFS drive for Time Machine backups, even though it is used for other purposes too.

Find out the NTFS drive volume's UUID:

diskutil info /Volumes/DRIVENAME | grep UUID

Put this in fstab: (Replace ENTED_UUID_HERE with the one you found from the previous command.)

sudo echo "UUID=ENTER_UUID_HERE none ntfs rw,auto,nobrowse" >> /etc/fstab

Eject, plug out and back in. MAKE SURE THE DRIVE WAS SAFELY REMOVED FROM WINDOWS, or it will not mount RW in Mac (See dmesg when plugging in).

Find your RW mounted volume

open /Volumes

Now we will create a Mac OS disk image on the NTFS volume.

1. Open Disk Utility
2. Click New Image
3. Select a large enough size
4. Format: Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
5. Partitions: Single Partition - Apple Partition Map
6. When done, mount this image

Now we will tell Time Machine to use this disk. It does not show up in the list of available drives, so we will use a command:

sudo tmutil setdestination /Volumes/MOUNTED-DISK-IMAGE

(Replace MOUNTED-DISK-IMAGE with the disk image you created, NOT the NTFS drive)

Now just test backing up and see that it works.

Resources:

• http://osxdaily.com/2013/10/02/enable-ntfs-write-support-mac-os-x/
• http://basilsalad.com/how-to/create-time-machine-backup-network-drive-lion/

I use this for backing up to my NAS via SMB/NFS

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