Home automation: Controlling your heating remotely

When buying my house we went during the visit also to the basement. At this place the so called Mercedes of the house was installed: The Vitola 200 oil-fired heating/boiler controlled by the Vitotronic 200 type KW2 produced by the firm Viessmann. Installation and material was about 6000 euro when checking the invoice. Maybe this… Continue reading Home automation: Controlling your heating remotely

Android: Questions and Answers

In this article several issues related to Android will be discussed. The format will be in a question and answer based manner. For more generic questions, please check the article: Miscellaneous Questions and Answers   Read also this special article which is dedicated to using ADB wirelessly via Wi-Fi.   Question: How can I make… Continue reading Android: Questions and Answers

Connecting to remote SSH-server from within company firewalled network

Problem 1: Often company firewalls/web proxies only allow outgoing traffic to HTTP and HTTPS ports, but you also would like to connect to a remote SSH-server. A trick is to start the remote SSH-server at the port which is normally reserved for HTTPS-traffic. Most of the time it is in this way possible to connect… Continue reading Connecting to remote SSH-server from within company firewalled network