Home Assistant Large Clock
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. ...
Home Assistant HTTP Based Authentication Backend
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. ...
Moving to Home Assistant
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: ...
Markdown cheat sheet
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
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. ...
X728 kit for Raspberry Pi 4
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 ...
cuylib
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
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, ...
SupervisorUI MF
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 ...
Supervisorui REDONE
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 ...
voidlinux virtualization
This recipe is for setting virtualization on a voidlinux desktop. Use this setup script to set things up on void linux. Connecting to libvirtd Note that virsh and virt-manager commands connect to different libvirtd sessions by defauult. virsh defaults to qemu:///session while virt-manager to qemu:///system. ...
A couple of useful sites for development
Unicode Can be useful for looking up unicode code points. Particularly useful for looking up accented characters. Another interesting use is for UI graphics characters. Unicode search Another site to search for unicode characters. ...
Keyboard Mouse control
This comes in handy when working at a colo or someplace where you don't have a mouse and then find yourself needing to use X11. Press the following key combo: Ctrl-Shift-Numlock Now you can control the mouse pointer using the number pad. The key bindings are: ...
flatpak
Flatpak is a utility for software deployment and package management for Linux. It is advertised as offering a sandbox environment in which users can run application software in isolation from the rest of the system. Flatpak was developed as part of the freedesktop.org project and was originally called xdg-app. Snap vs Flatpak ...
My git release script
I always had issues remembering how to create releases. So in order to standardise things, I wrote this script: ghrelease So whenever I am ready to release I would then just issue ...
Meta Database
So I was looking for a way to version control database schemas, but I never found something that worked for me. I found all these options that never seem to match what I wanted: metabase dbv ...
lnbin
This is my lnbin script. This is a program for managing symlink in a /usr/local/bin directory. It is similar to stow, lndir, cleanlinks and others. The approach used by lnbin is based on Stow, and it is to install each into its own tree, then use symbolic links to make its bin ...
Linux Icons
A quick note on how to add icons to menus in a Linux desktop. Create the icon image in: /usr/share/pixmaps. png and svg (and maybe others) are supported. 24x24 seems to be a good size for menus. ...
nas ops cmd
This is my op script. This is stupidly simple script to elevate priviledges in order to manage NFS shares on my QNAP NAS. The idea is that NFS shares do squash-root so admin access is disallowed through NFS. This gives a convenient way to issue root level commands without using NFS but instead use ssh ...
Linux stuff
Sudoers Since sudo v1.9, it is possible to use the following statements: #includedir @includedir ...