Store more than 100 Yealink VoIP phonebook entries with a simple remote phonebook

I recently was tasked with setting up a Yealink VoIP telephone system which misleadingly states on it’s spec sheet that it can hold 1000 phonebook entries (up to three numbers per entry: mobile, office, other). Specifically I was using several “Yealink W73H DECT Handset” and a “Yealink W70B DECT IP Base Station”, however I expect this will be the same for all other Yealink models. “Local phonebook for up to 1000 entries (store in the base)” ...

9 June 2025

Setting up Sympl with LetsEncrypt DNS-based SSL certificates, using Dehydrated

Update 2024-08-29: Rolling over a certificate in Sympl doesn’t seem to work without also changing the set name, so I have updated the deploy-cert script to rename the set on each renewal. I’ve also added a section to remind you to automate the renewal with cron. Based heavily on the SSL setup in my forgejo instructions (coming soon), these instructions should setup Sympl.io with DNS-based SSL certificates. This is useful for servers behind a firewall, such as a corporate network or homelab, where LetsEncrypt can’t do http-based domain validation. ...

29 April 2024

Setting Up a Blog with Hugo

Well suffice to say that starting a blog has been on my list of things to do for a while. Today I have finally got round to setting one up, thanks in part to a brief discussion this last week on the fediverse (in the aftermath of the birdsite’s recent takeover). Being something of a perfectionist I’ve been reluctant to get started worried both that each post would take hours and without having fully planned out the whole blog I didn’t want to end up with another “half done” project. ...

9 November 2022