Interested in home automation? Here are a few of the prime day deals I would personally recommend.
Note, this is not a kitchen-sink post full of non-relaxant links, but, rather, a list of things I have hands on experience with.
Every single product linked below, will work with Home Assistant, 100% LOCALLY, without any required cloud services or subscriptions.
If, you need reasons as to why required cloud services are bad, see Reasons to avoid cloud products
Why is everyone angry at reddit??
What went wrong?
A very short post, with a few links.
Want to learn more about how to use the fediverse?
Here are a few short tips to get started.
Around a year and a half ago, I installed a Pioneer Mini-split and integrated it with Home Assistant
I used a local integration, which had a cloud dependency for the initial setup. And, since installation, it has been working flawlessly.
However, last week, it completely stopped working and I was unable to reinitialize it.
So- Today- I will be replacing the midea dongle, with a device running esphome.
Going over the history of my home network from the previous three years... and...
Deploying a Brocade ICX-6450 and Dell R730XD, without increasing power consumption.
In an effort to monitor the consumption of everything- I ran across an unusual problem.
When connecting my core switch to a ESPHome flashed smart switch, I noticed two things-
So, I set out to see how I could customize my configuration to be suitable for managing my core switch.
I will be implementing:
Everyone wants to monitor energy consumption. Everyone wants to automate their home.
The Sonoff S31, is a pretty low-cost way of doing this.
This is a very quick post on how to take a sensor- such as sensor.grid_power and split it into sensor.grid_power_in and sensor.grid_power_out.
This can be handy if you need a separate sensor for energy/power in, and energy/power out.
For this short post, I will be splitting sensor.battery_power into sensor.battery_power_in and sensor.battery_power_out
This is a quite guide on creating a real-time sankey diagram to show your current energy usage.
I just swapped my TrueNAS from a Dell R720XD over to a Dell r730XD. During this migration, I moved over my NVMe drives, NICs, and everything else relevant.
However, after firing up TrueNAS on the new hardware, I noticed my 40G NIC was not listed in the list of devices!
After once again googling how to change the mode over, I figured I would just quickly write some documentation incase this happens again in the future.
Last week, I added a 10G Unifi aggregation switch to my network.
I noticed a few potential performance issues, and decided to track them down.
This is a simple guide, with a few methods you can leverage to troubleshoot network performance issues.
A quick guide on how to set common options with the ConnectX-3, via linux, without using the OFED driver.
This guide is specific to ethernet mode, but, may or may not work with infiniband mode.
My r720XD took its last breath earlier this week...
This is just a short post about its troubleshooting, and.... what will replace it.
Using a Tp-link kasa HS300 as a low-cost switchable PDU. This product has features for per-outlet power monitoring as well.
A quick guide on re-enabling the apt-get functionality.
How to address Virtual Machines and/or containers not being able to access the TrueNAS Scale server hosting them.
While migrating from TrueNAS Scale to Core, I ran into an issue when remounting my existing iSCSI shares.
After getting everything configured, windows showed the status of, “Healthy (GPT Protective partition)”
The default directions for installing doors sensors, involves using the included double-sized tape directly stick the sensor to doors and windows.
I personally, wanted these sensors to be out of sight, and out of mind. So, I decided to recess them into the doors themselves.
So, you want to have an alarm for your house. But, you don’t want to give your money to ADT/Ring/SimpliSafe/etc… and you want to build it yourself, with components you can easily service and replace, right? If so, this is the article for you.
I have a few Reolink cameras. Recently, I noticed the time of many of the cameras was not set correctly.
Since, I keep all of my IOT and Security devices isolated from the internet, they are not able to communicate with the pre-defined external NTP server. However, I do have a NTP server running on my opnsense firewall which they do have access to.
But, it appears the ability to set a custom NTP server no longer exists in the reolink’s configuration page.