Smarthome & Home Lab

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.

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Eleventy, a simpler static site generator.

It's a much less expensive alternative to a Sonos system

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…

Whether you're recording specifically for YouTube or making movies that may just end up there, this gear can help.

If your want your Amazon Fire tablet to work like a stock Android device, follow this guide to learn how to make this happen.

via Chordata Motion …The basic concept is a simplified interface for a Telegram voice chat with only a few (big) buttons: it should allow to easily and intuitively send and receive voice mess…

via PiMyLifeUp OMXPlayer is one of the best video players you can use on the Raspberry Pi, thanks to it being optimized for its hardware. The Kodi team originally developed this software as a testb…

There’s still time to get next level with your decorations! Check out Chris Crocker-White’s guide on balena blog for the how: Build and animate your own web and remote-controllable ligh…

Create voice assistant like JARVIS using Python programming language

The Raspberry Pi is one of the most popular brands of single-board computers. Part of the reason for this popularity is the massive number of unique and interesting projects that people have built using Raspberry Pi. Several Opensource.com authors have used Raspberry Pi in various projects and provided instructions so others can recreate their projects. Here are the ten most popular Raspberry Pi articles published by Opensource.com in 2021. I hope they inspire you as you tinker with your own Raspberry Pi. [OS_EMBEDDED_MENU_RIGHT:]

Welcome to this course. Learn SCADA hands-on by developing your own interfaces for different systems and control Your Raspberry Pi Based Device. In this course, you're going to learn about SCADA by creating graphical interfaces that you can...

An open-source monitoring system with a dimensional data model, flexible query language, efficient time series database and modern alerting approach.

Now install Docker on the server. Since we have deployed a home server to run services for home automation, we need to be able to monitor and be alerted if there is any abnormal behaviours, like system or service outage.

This guide details all the steps needed to install and configure the Blackbox Exporter with Prometheus.

Full monitoring stack — part 1.

A Backblaze survey revealed 54% of people said they know someone or have themselves recently lost data. Find out what you can do to prevent data loss.

How to backup your Synology NAS using Backblaze B2 cloud backup service. Installing Backblaze on Synology step-by-step, quick and easy!

Mycroft AI is a virtual assistant application that can respond to verbal requests and complete tasks such as searching the Internet for some information you need, or downloading your favorite podcast, and so on. It's a fine piece of open source software that, unlike similar software from companies in the business of harvesting personal data, provides privacy and platform flexibility.