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:
As part of my small project of movng my Z-Wave Hub to a Raspberry PI, I got an X728 kit. This has:
The case has holes for wall-mounting.
The Geekworm X728 kit is …
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 …
So I gave into the temptation to store "secret" data into a git repository. Of course, to keep things safer, I chose to use an encryption tool. So I tested:
So, I tested git-secret. It seems to work but was in my opinion cumbersome.
Furthermore, the version …
I made the switch to void linux. Except for compatibility
issues around glibc, it works quite well. Most compatibility
I have worked around with a combination of Flatpaks, chroots and
namespaces.
The high lights of void linux:
systemd …Alpine Linux Quick installation
See wiki For Alpine Linux > 3.8
/etc/apk/repositoriesOptional: (docker compose)
apk add docker-compose
Note 2021-03-21: When I tested this, the daemon.json did not
work! Your mileage may vary …
If you often mount and access a remote NFS share on your system, you will probably want to know how to improve NFS file access performance. One possibility is using file caching. In Linux, there is a caching filesystem called FS-Cache which enables file caching for network file systems such …
Set-up local.repo
yum installs:
THIS IS FOR ARCHIVAL PURPOSES. THIS IS OUT-OF-DATE
openshift getenv(USER) from OpenShift php
ssh to {user}@{app-domain} gear snapshot > file
Run gear app
OpenShift migration further notes
Encrypt a file using a supplied password :
$ openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -salt -in file.txt -out file.txt.enc -k …I bought a HP Envy 4504. Overall I am happy with it. This is how I configure it so I can use with Linux.
This mini howto applies to ArchLinux, void linux and Centos/RedHat distributions.
Archlinux:
cups, hplip, python2, sane
Centos:
cups, hplip, hplip-gui, sane
Some optional dependancies …
In Linux, there is a caching filesystem called FS-Cache which enables
file caching for network file systems such as NFS. FS-Cache is built
into the Linux kernel 2.6.30 and higher. In order for FS-Cache to
operate, it needs cache back-end which provides actual storage for
caching. One such …
I am still to test this recipe
First of all, we must install the following components:
A bunch of recipes useful for an ArchLinux system environment.
Mostly around system administration.
In the repo directory, put all the packages in there.
repo-add ./custom.db.tar.gz ./*
Add to pacman.conf:
[custom]
SigLevel = [Package|Databse]Never|Optional|Required
Server = path-to-repo
See also repo-remove. A …