Smarthome & Home Lab

OK, now that I've gotten Unifi up and running, here are some more minor details that have taken me a while to get right. The first is how you can refer to devic

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Crontab-ui is a web frontend written in Node.js that helps manage the crontab file.

Link together multiple Home Assistant devices with this centralized control panel.

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Automation is a hot topic right now. In my day job as a site reliability engineer (SRE), part of my remit is to automate as many repeating tasks as possible.

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If you’ve ever read up on the basics of cryptography, you’ll be aware of steganography, the practice of hiding something inside something else. It’s a process that works with digi…

Getting Android on Raspberry Pi 4 is easy if you have the correct version of Android. We show you the easiest way to install Raspberry Pi Android.

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SSH is one of the most widely used protocols for system administration on Linux platforms. This guide shows how to harden the SSHd setup of your serve...

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A guide on how to set up Z-Wave JS in Home Assistant

Bluetooth is one of the innovative technology to transfer data wirelessly, build home automation systems, control other devices etc. In this tutorial, we will learn about how to turn a Raspberry Pi into Bluetooth Beacon. Requirements Raspberry Pi BleuIO (A Bluetooth low energy adapter) A Mobile Phone with Bluetooth and an App such as BLE Scanner, […]

Project goal Setup an RPi as a USB-over-IP server. Run Hass on a VM (or wherever) and connect to a Z-Wave/ZigBee/etc dongle physically plugged into an RPi somewhere on your network. Background I started working with Hass using an RPi3 and an HUSBZ-1 combo Z-Wave/ZigBee stick which worked well but I have concerns about long-term reliability of SD cards on the Pi and while performance was OK, I have a virtualization farm here that provides me much better performance and availability than an RPi ...

This post will show how I set up CPU Temperature monitoring for Home Assistant running on a virtual machine in Proxmox. Virtualized hardware does not report temperatures, so I used a python script running on the host system to periodically send the CPU temp to Home Assistant. Lovelace Hardware MonitorLast