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Dec/24

Home Assistant: Home Modes

Filed Under Home Automation at 2nd December 2024 0:01 by

Overview A quick walk through of how I use home mode in Home Assistant. This is not a tutorial but more of guide and idea of what I use them for. Dropdown / Input Select Helper I use a helper … Continue reading →

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Nov/24

Uptime Kuma

Filed Under Infrastructure at 4th November 2024 0:01 by

Overview I use a combination of cloud and self hosted monitoring tools and in this case it’s the latter. Why? Utilising the concept of being alerted when something is down (or up in some cases) allows notifications or alerts to … Continue reading →

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Oct/24

Exposing Homelab

Filed Under Infrastructure, Linux at 7th October 2024 0:01 by

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

Filed Under Software, Workflow at 2nd September 2024 0:01 by

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

Filed Under Infrastructure at 5th August 2024 0:01 by

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

Filed Under Home Automation, Infrastructure, Workflow at 1st July 2024 0:01 by

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

Filed Under Productivity at 3rd June 2024 0:01 by

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 →

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May/24

Home Assistant Constantly Refreshing

Filed Under Home Automation, Infrastructure at 6th May 2024 0:01 by

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 →