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Feb/24

Solar Assistant With EMQX Data Bridge

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

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 →

02

Oct/23

DigitalOcean Managed (Clustered) Database With WordPress

Filed Under Database, Infrastructure, Linux at 2nd October 2023 0:01 by

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 →

04

Sep/23

MySQL Consider increasing innodb_redo_log_capacity

Filed Under Database, Infrastructure at 4th September 2023 0:01 by

Overview I started getting the following warnings in the log from MySQL: 2023-03-18T05:12:59.566053Z 0 [Warning] [MY-013865] [InnoDB] Redo log writer is waiting for a new redo log file. Consider increasing innodb_redo_log_capacity. Redo logs are stored transactions that are used to … Continue reading →

03

Jul/23

Unraid

Filed Under Infrastructure, Linux at 3rd July 2023 0:01 by

Overview I have been using Unraid for over 2 years now and it has a great in-between a full solution such as a NAS dedicated hardware and a homelab DIY solution. The idea was to use it as a server … Continue reading →

05

Jun/23

Increase Growatt Shine Update Interval

Filed Under Hardware, Infrastructure, IOT at 5th June 2023 0:01 by

A quick, at your own risk tutorial to change the reporting frequency of your Growatt Shine sensor data. This won’t change the data being reported on the Growatt dashboard / ShinePhone app however it will show up things like grott … Continue reading →

07

Nov/22

ZeroTier

Filed Under Infrastructure at 7th November 2022 0:01 by

Overview I have been looking at moving towards a zero trust network but I have never been able to get other how home devices especially Internet of Things (IOT) generally use discovery protocols to ease setup which is contradictory to … Continue reading →

03

Oct/22

Home Assistant With Version Control

Filed Under Home Automation, Infrastructure at 3rd October 2022 0:01 by

Overview Home Assistant works half in system (e.g. UI integrations) and half in YAML Ain’t Markup Language (YAML). YAML files are usually stored as .yml or .yaml (Home Assistant works best with the latter). More and more features are available … Continue reading →

04

Jul/22

Home Assistant Continuous Integration Workflow

Filed Under Home Automation, Houseware, Infrastructure, Software at 4th July 2022 0:01 by

Overview Development pipelines such as version control to deploying changes automatically. In Home Assistant’s case, you can make changes in YAML text files anywhere and Home Assistant can pick up the changes and automatically load them. Tools I use GitHub … Continue reading →