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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 →

05

Sep/22

Enable Coral AI USB On Unraid

Filed Under Linux, Peripherals at 5th September 2022 0:01 by

Edge computing is becoming more affordable and Coral AI USB is one example: This was running detection at 5 FPS on a Coral AI at 10ms v.s. 2 out of 4 cores on an Intel. To use the Coral AI … Continue reading →

01

Aug/22

Let’s Encrypt With HaProxy

Filed Under Security, Web Server at 1st August 2022 0:01 by

Overview Using EFF’s goal to encrypt the Internet has spawned a project to issue TLS certificates is a great idea and opens up certificates for everyone and not just for those with money. To balance certificates being miss used, EFF … 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 →

06

Jun/22

MySQL caching_sha2_password: the specified module could not be found.

Filed Under Database at 6th June 2022 0:01 by

Upgrading from MySQL 5.x to 8 has caused an error with existing accounts. The fix is to set the authentication to use. More details can be found here. MySQL 8.0.11 error connect to caching_sha2_password the specified module could not be … Continue reading →

02

May/22

Water Depth Sensor With ESP32

Filed Under Home Automation, IOT at 2nd May 2022 0:01 by

Overview We live in a house with a water tank in the loft which uses gravity to feed water to any of the water sources upstairs in the house like the hot water tank to bathroom taps. Now and again, … Continue reading →

04

Apr/22

Time Tracking With NFC Tags On Android

Filed Under Home Automation, Mobile Phone, Workflow at 4th April 2022 0:01 by

Overview NFC tags are relatively cheap solution to start timers (or any other tasks in Tasker) where GPS has an accuracy up to 50 metres. An NFC tag is down to the centimetres. NFC is less of a power draw … Continue reading →

07

Mar/22

Cannot Remove Healthy (Recovery Partition)

Filed Under Windows at 7th March 2022 0:01 by

Overview Windows Disk Management tool does not allow recovery partitions to be removed so the command line route is the built in option to do this. Delete partition Open a command prompt as administrator. For example: typing cmd in the … Continue reading →