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Jul/25Passive Location Tracking With Home Assistant And Owntracks
Overview With the changes to Google Timeline moving to local storage, others had the idea of using self hosted solution such as Dawarich. With Home Assistant with access to my location for location based automations, I could store that data … Continue reading
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Jun/25Migrating Grafana Users To Authentik
Overview Authentik Log in as admin and go to the admin interface. From the menu go to Applications > Applications. Go through the Create With Wizard to setup a new application and provider. Enter a name and slug. Slug will … Continue reading
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Apr/25Migrating Bookstack Users To Authentik
Overview Migrating to a new Identity Provider (IDP) has it’s perks but also challenges in an existing setup. One of those was with Bookstack. If accounts already exist, an External ID is required to map the Bookstack accounts with the … Continue reading
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Feb/25Centralising Identities And Authentication With Authentik
Overview Managing the plethora of accounts and the associate credentials is annoying at the best of times. With the number of services I’m self hosting it’s more to manage whilst aligning to security best practices as much as possible. Before, … Continue reading
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Jan/25Self Hosted Productivity Tools 2025
Overview A list of useful productivity tools which are self hosted. These are self hosted for various reasons and a good snapshot of the tools I use on a frequent basis. I am hoping this list will grow to as … Continue reading
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Nov/24Uptime Kuma
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/24Exposing 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
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Aug/24Why 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