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Month: July 2021

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 5 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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