Smarthome & Home Lab

Steam player stats aren't easy to find. This list includes 3rd-party tools and websites to see how much time and money you're spending on Steam

This blog, and many others, are hosted using Amazon AWS. This one has a difference, it is almost completely free to host (and was completely free for the first year) because of Hugo, Amazon S3, Cloudfront, lambda@edge, Azure DevOps and (optionally) GitHub.

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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With Linux, I can connect with my ancestors in unexpected ways.

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

PKI and DevOps are like two sides of the same coin with many similar techniques and tools, many available through open source communities.

I always run with my phone on me, so accessing my home afterward has been convenient since installing MyQ W-Fi connected garage doors several years ago. No need to remember to carry a separate house key anymore and getting into my house is (usually) an app launch away. It has worked great, until one day …

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CasaOS is a simple, easy-to-use, elegant open-source home cloud system

Or how to play YouTube videos on you SONOS, easy and for free.

Explains how to install dnstop on Linux to display information about DNS (caching and authoritative) traffic on your network.

Update 1: (12/16/2018) - GitHub Repository Made Public Here. Update 2: (12/16/2018) - Added a new analysis as /u/Anchor-shark within the /r/pihole

Eleventy, a simpler static site generator.

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I typically have a dozen computers up and running on my home network—yes, 12. And I am responsible for several more in other locations. With so many computers, there are always failures of various types, and I ultimately diagnose many of them as hardware problems. But it can be difficult to diagnose which hardware component is causing the issue.

Are you tired of heavy web pages, browser pop-ups, flashing banners, N-factor authentication, user tracking and analytics? Well, there are…