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Building a mobile app with Flutter for the fddb-exporter backend

February 11, 2023 by Tobey Leave a Comment
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preamble As an intermittent user of FDDB.info I have logged my consumed meals for quite a while in a mobile application each day. However as all graphs and analytics data can only be used by paying premium members of the application and I wanted to create dashboards using Grafana for my data, I was looking … [Read more…]

Posted in: Consumer Tagged: Android, App, automation, export, fddb.info, flutter, github, grafana, open source, Software

Running Background Scripts in Windows without Terminal Pop-up

December 20, 2022 by Tobey Leave a Comment

Running a background script in Linux is fairly easy. Just create a cron job and it will be executed at the given time in the background. On Windows however running background scripts in most cases a terminal window will pop-up, even if it’s just for a second while the script is running. As this is … [Read more…]

Posted in: Consumer, Tips && Tricks Tagged: automation, cron, Python, Script, Software, VBS, Windows

Self-Signed Keystores in OpenShift / Kubernetes to re-encrypt Spring Boot Apps

December 10, 2022 by Tobey Leave a Comment
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After creating self-signed wildcard certificates for modern browsers a while back, self-signed certificates came back to haunt me once again. This post describes a solution for creating self-signed keystores (pkcs12 or jks) in OpenShift and Kubernetes to use in Spring Boot applications to re-encrypt traffic. Actually I present 2 solutions, but the second one only … [Read more…]

Posted in: Professional, Security Tagged: cert-manager, Certificate, container, docker, keystore, kubernetes, openshift, security, self-signed, Software, spring boot, tls

Restoring Original IP from Cloudflare to WordPress in K3s / Kubernetes with Traefik

November 6, 2022 by Tobey Leave a Comment
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Unfortunately this does not apply to the IP logged within the comment section, however the log does contain the correct IP. I will revisit this issue and may update this post. Cloudflare offers great solutions for the protection of a webpage. Although most interesting applications require a paid premium account, the free tier also provides … [Read more…]

Posted in: Consumer, Kubernetes, Professional, Security, Tips && Tricks Tagged: Cloudflare, container, docker, github, HTTP, k3s, kubernetes, Software, traefik, Wordpress

Reset Admin Password on Teamspeak3 Docker

July 18, 2022 by Tobey Leave a Comment
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A few years ago I migrated my Teamspeak3 installation to Docker. Until now this ran like a charm with minimal management effort. For some reason the configured admin password, which is displayed once on the initial startup of Teamspeak3, did not work for me anymore. Researching this issue I have found an easy yet undocumented … [Read more…]

Posted in: Consumer, Tips && Tricks Tagged: container, docker, security, Software, teamspeak

Export nutritional data diary from FDDB.info

August 28, 2021 by Tobey 4 Comments
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Earlier this year I have posted an article on how I managed to gather and persist calories from FDDB.info. As I have grown more interested in macro-nutrients, I had a look into extending my application to gather more data. Unfortunately this resulted in a complete rewrite, as the approach I took in March relied on … [Read more…]

Posted in: Consumer Tagged: csv, database, docker, export, fddb.info, github, micronaut, open source, postgres, spring

Project: Smart Home Dashboard

August 2, 2021 by Tobey 1 Comment

Yesterday I have released a new page on this blog, which describes my most recent project: a smart home dashboard using an Inkplate 10 e-ink display and Home Assistant as a backend. Home Assistant displays a lovelace view of the dashboard which is then rendered to a JPG-image. The Inkplate wakes up every 20 minutes … [Read more…]

Posted in: Automation, Consumer, Smart Home Tagged: automation, container, dashboard, docker, grafana, influxdb, inkplate, smart home, Software

Datadog as an intermediary for gathering metrics

July 31, 2021 by Tobey Leave a Comment

For my current personal project in developing a dashboard, which displays metrics of my servers and devices among other things, I was faced with the challenge to collect metrics from all devices. Usually solutions like Prometheus are quite famous for use cases like this, but I did not want to open any ports on any … [Read more…]

Posted in: Consumer, Professional, Uncategorized Tagged: automation, container, Datadog, docker, github, influxdb, java, metrics, Software

Specific calendar events crash the Home Assistant integration

July 25, 2021 by Tobey Leave a Comment
Home Assistant

Recently I started playing around with Home Assistant, to make my home smart and display useful metrics on a dashboard, e.g. calendar events. A few days ago I noticed specific calendar events crash the Home Assistant integration for a day. I don’t think this is exclusive to my environment and may be a global issue. … [Read more…]

Posted in: Consumer, Tips && Tricks Tagged: baikal, Bug, container, docker, github, home assistant

Inkplate 10 not displaying grayscale JPG image

July 11, 2021 by Tobey 3 Comments
Inkplate

A few days ago I finally received my Inkplate 10 in the mail. I’m using this 10″ e-ink display to show a dashboard of my smart home using Home Assistant. When I started playing around with the device everything seemed to work great and I was able to display the example images (and the ones … [Read more…]

Posted in: Consumer, Tips && Tricks Tagged: automation, esp32, home-assistant, inkplate
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