07

Oct/24

Exposing Homelab

Overview Opening home services to the world wide web is a security concern and technologies such as VPNs have gotten a lot easier to setup. However, there are times where you cannot install a VPN client and I haven’t had … Continue reading

02

Sep/24

Replaced IFTTT With n8n.io

Overview I was lucky to be on the IFTTT Legacy price plan where I could set the price of what I wanted to pay per month. I believe it started from $1.99 so that was what I chose. As time … Continue reading

05

Aug/24

Why I Moved From Zerotier To Tailscale

Overview I had been using Zerotier one for a while and worked great. The main use was to remotely connect to Home Assistant. After listening to an episode of Linux Unplugged (I think episode 525) I thought I’d check out … Continue reading

01

Jul/24

Home Assistant Continuous Integration Workflow 2024

Overview A minor tweak to the Home Assistant CI/CD pipeline worth mentioning. The deployment process now replaces public call to a webhook to a VPN based solution. This comes in the form of Tailscale who also provide an example github … Continue reading

03

Jun/24

Document Organisation Part 4 – Document Management System

Overview An update to my overall document management is the use of a Document Management System (DMS). It provides an easily searchable repository with additional meta data such as tags without having to fudge it using a file names yet … Continue reading

06

May/24

Home Assistant Constantly Refreshing

Update This has been removed in v2.11.2 and will fail to start if the configuration below is left in. I was seeing constant page refreshes on Home Assistant. In the end, it was changes to Traefik v2.11 and how it … Continue reading

01

Apr/24

Monitoring Boiler Flow Temperature

Overview I have a basic gas boiler in a conventional setup. After watching Heat Geek channel and their videos on heat pumps, I too wanted to look at how efficient my boiler was running. I did not want to make … Continue reading

04

Mar/24

Remove Windows Family Account

A quick post to a video on how to remove a Microsoft Family account from a computer. When you disable an account from logging into the computer, their profile and all associate files remain on the computer. This is not … Continue reading