Brent Saltzman

  1. Monitoring your Sump Pump with Home Assistant

    With thunderstorm season upon us, I thought it would be fitting to talk about monitoring sump pumps. When I purchased my house one of the first things I immediately wanted to do with my smart home was figure out a way to see if my sump pump was doing its…

  2. Don't get Zoom Bombed! Change these settings in Zoom now!

    With the coronavirus forcing all of us to practice social distancing and forcing us to work from home and learn from home more and more companies are flocking to services like Zoom to stay connected and keep operations and learning going without needing to gather in places together. Unfortunately, bad…

  3. How to Survive Working from Home: Web Conferencing and Collaboration

    Throughout my career working with professional audio and video as well as IT, I've worn a few different hats including being a web conferencing administrator. I've worked in both higher education (online learning, etc) as well as corporate and my best practices and advice are both…

  4. How to Survive Working from Home: Your Environment

    With the on-going pandemic situation due to Coronavirus COVID-19 many schools and businesses are shutting their doors requiring many employees to work from home (where possible). Obviously not everyone is fortunate to have a profession that can allow a work from home situation and many people working individuals have never…

  5. Factory Reset a Cisco Catalyst 3750 Series Switch

    If you're wanting a reliable backbone to your home network an obvious choice is a used enterprise level Cisco Catalyst 3750 series switch. These can be found on eBay [http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?ff3=4&pub=5575571177&toolid=10001&campid=5338656477&…

  6. Control the Shure MXA910 and MXA310 Microphones with PowerShell

    If you don't know about Shure's MicroFlex Advance series [https://www.shure.com/en-US/conferencing-meetings/solutions/microflex_advance] of microphones, they have taken the AV and conferencing industries by storm creating the best in-class ceiling and table top microphone technology along with asthetics that fit into…