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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
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Jul/24Home 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
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May/24Home 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
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Apr/24Monitoring 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
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Feb/24Solar Assistant With EMQX Data Bridge
Overview My Growatt inverter has been lacking the integration to control the charging of the battery from the grid in Home Assistant. The feature exists in it’s own app and platform but it’s a real pain in the back side … Continue reading
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Oct/23DigitalOcean Managed (Clustered) Database With WordPress
Overview I have an existing WordPress site running on DigitalOcean on a self managed instance (Droplet). It was time for an OS upgrade and generally I like to start from scratch rather than doing an in place upgrade. Ideally, I … Continue reading