The idea here is that we use a Desktop PC for developing/debugging Raspberry Pi set-ups using qemu for emulating Rasperrby Pi. qemu currently supports the following configurations: Raspberry Pi Zero and 1A+ (armhf) Raspberry Pi 2B (armv7) ...
For a while I was using TabletClock with old tablets. But this has not been updated in a while. I was thinking of writing my own version until I found WallPanel. Essentially it is purposely built web-browser with special features which makes it possible to use it to replaces TabletClock. Essentially, I could replace TabletClock with a web-page showing the time and a weather ...
For years I have been using VNC for my remote desktop needs. This works usually well enough. The features that I like are: Basic set-up is easy Desktop sessions are persistent Can be used to view an actual X11.org desktop. ...
I wrote a small tool to access QNAP snapshots from the Linux command line. Pre-requistes: Snapshots have to be enabled You need a /share/netcfg containing the file: ...
This is a quick recipe to run Docker on void: Make sure your system is up-to-date: sudo xbps-install -Syu ...
I finished migrating my VeraEdge to Home Assistant. I think after using it for some time, I find Home Assistant far superior to the VeraEdge in every way. So, I took the time to mostly standardise my sensors which make things simpler to manage/mantain. As such, essentially I am only using 4 types of sensors: ...
Best wishes for 2023! This website is now 10 Years Old. ...
RFXCOM RFXtrx This integration is to control RFXtrx devices. I am using to control Somfy blinds and KlikAanKlikUit remotes. Add integration: RFXCOM RFXtrx ...
To set-up a reverse proxy I took the following steps: configure DNS get Letsencrypt certificates Configure NGINX Configure Home Assistant to trust the proxy ...
This recipe is to check the tags defined for a specific Docker image in docker.hub. The basic API is at https://registry.hub.docker.com/v2 So the format is as follows: https://registry.hub.docker.com/v2/repositories/{namespace}/{image}/tags/ Where: ...
This recipe is my version of providing a "large clock" face in the home assistant dashboard. Enable serving local static files: Create directory www in your config directory. Restart home assistant. ...
This recipe is to authenticate users using a web server providing Basic HTTP authentication for it users. This is useful if you want to consolidate users/passwords in a single system. So instead of managing users on Home Assistant you can have all users managed from a central location. ...
I am busy moving away from my VeraEdge installation to a Home Assistant running on a Raspberry Pi 4. This is because it looks like the maker of the VeraEdge was bought and it is slowly being phased out. For this I am using the following parts: ...
This is intended as a quick reference and showcase. For more complete info, see John Gruber's original spec and the Github-flavored Markdown info page. Headers Source: ...
NanoWiki is a Wiki implementation based on picowiki. I have been using SimpleNote for a number of years. It works pretty well but somehow I was looking for: Ability to include and render nice asciiart pictures Organizes articles in a folder structure. ...
As part of my small project of movng my Z-Wave Hub to a Raspberry PI, I got an X728 kit. This has: UPS controller board RTC circuit ...
This is a tiny library to implement Web server embedded editor. You can find it in github. Can be used either from haserl or directly from a shell script. Features: ...
photoprism is a web based photo management application. From its website: PhotoPrism® is an AI-Powered Photos App for the Decentralized Web. It makes use of the latest technologies to tag and find pictures automatically without getting in your way. You can run it at home, ...
In a previous article, I updated a supervisorui project to work for me. This updated version supervisorui-redone is essentially a PHP application which is a different approach from the original supervisorui project which was more of a JavaScript application with some helper functionality implemented in PHP. As such, I figured that I could probably fix the supervisorui code base ...
Currently I am using docker containers to deploy applications. A number of those containers make use of supervisord for managing processes. While supervisord itself comes with a UI, it is unhandy for me because each container is its own supervisord instance. So I was interested in some software that would let me manage multiple supervisord instances in a single page. Turns out that there ...