Death of my r720XD
My r720XD took its last breath earlier this week...
This is just a short post about its troubleshooting, and.... what will replace it.
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Automating the Galaxy!
Tonight, I wanted to do a small, random side-project. I automated the galaxy!
(Or, at least a small version of it.)
Home Assistant - Is Working Sensor
Creating simple sensors to determine if we are "at work". Includes setting up a work_days sensor, time of day sensor, and a template sensor to tie everything togather.
As well, includes steps for handling vacation / OoO days, and holidays.
EG4 Rack Review
As apart of the Home Solar Project, I purchased and assembled an EG4 battery rack.
This post outlines the process of assembly, issues I encountered, and my final opinions.
Home Solar Project - Battery Selection
For the second part of my Home Solar Project, I researched possible solutions and ordered batteries.
This post, describes some of the decision making process I went through.
Home Solar Project - Introduction
One of my projects I have been working on over the last two years, is adding solar panels to my house to offset some/most of my electrical usage.
Here are the goals I wish to accomplish, and how I plan on accomplishing them:
Using Kasa HS300 powerstrip as a PDU.
Using a Tp-link kasa HS300 as a low-cost switchable PDU. This product has features for per-outlet power monitoring as well.
Reasons to avoid cloud-based home automation products
On this blog / my house, I try to use 100% local control products whenever possible. Many people don’t understand the reasoning behind this…. So, I am dedicating this page to reasons as to why you should ONLY buy products which are 100% local control only, with no cloud dependency, and no proprietary hub.
Home Assistant - Energy Monitoring Options
A quick post going over the best options for taking advantage of home assistant's energy monitoring features.
To note- you don't have to use home assistant with these products. But, these products were specifically chosen due to some level of integration with home assistant.
Why I am migrating away from wordpress
Why am I moving away from wordpress?
The next homelab evolution & Static Site
Introduction
Over the last few months, I decided to learn kubernetes.
TrueNAS Scale - How to re-enable apt-get
A quick guide on re-enabling the apt-get functionality.
TrueNAS Scale - VM/Containers cannot access host.
How to address Virtual Machines and/or containers not being able to access the TrueNAS Scale server hosting them.
SCCM – Parsing Collection Maintenance Windows from C-Sharp
Introduction
This post details how to extract useful information from the SCCM Schedules format.
C# - Get Display Attribute Value from Enum
Every now and then, I have a use case where decorating an Enum’s values with Attributes comes in handy. Things such as… Adding Display Names, Descriptions, etc.
Well, every time I have this use-case, I have to go google how I did it the previous time… and in most cases, StackOverflow is less then helpful. Then, I remember a few personal projects where I previously did this, and I find the code and reuse it.
TFS / Azure Devops - Semantic Versioning
I publish nuget packages. Alot of nuget packages.
I don’t have time to maintain nuget package versioning, so, I automatically generate versions based on the date and build number, like so: 2022.07.14.1
As well, I need support for alpha/beta/etc.
So, 2022.07.14.1-alpha.
Here is my method of doing it-
TrueNAS – iSCSI – GPT Protective partition
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)”
