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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

Using the External Renderer for Grafana Docker

February 7, 2021 by Tobey 8 Comments
Grafana

Recently I tried to make use of the renderer function in Grafana to retrieve a graph as an image for further usage. However since Grafana 7 (I guess) they decided to not include the external image renderer anymore in the Grafana Docker image. You may install the plugin yourself, however this does not work by … [Read more…]

Posted in: Automation, Consumer, Professional Tagged: automation, container, docker, grafana, nginx, Proxy

checking the availability of an encrypted volume ft. Pushbullet and Pi-hole

July 11, 2020 by Tobey 1 Comment
pihole

Issue: I need to get a notification if a necessary volume on my Linux device is not mounted, as this volume cannot get automatically mounted because a passphrase is required. The curl-request is dependent on the custom DNS (Pi-hole). When setting up my Intel NUC I decided that all my persistent data of the running … [Read more…]

Posted in: Automation, Consumer, Tips && Tricks Tagged: container, docker, linux, Script, Software

[Deprecated] Automatically load all videos in a YouTube channel using JavaScript

June 8, 2016 by Tobey 11 Comments

Issue: How can I use JavaScript to click the Load More button on a YouTube channel automatically? As stated in the comments YouTube switched it’s approach to loading videos, so this script is deprecated. This issue is rather a proof-of-concept and result of my curiosity than a real useful hint. As I was watching a … [Read more…]

Posted in: Automation, Consumer, Tips && Tricks Tagged: JavaScript, Script, YouTube

Dynamically Filling Requests In SoapUI Using A Textfile

February 2, 2016 by Tobey Leave a Comment
SoapUI

Issue: How can I dynamically fill variables from a textfile into a soap request and run those automatically using SoapUI? While working a client project I got the request to call a webservice method a couple of hundred times. Each iteration needed a specific id to be sent to the server. For an easy solution … [Read more…]

Posted in: Automation, Professional Tagged: Groovy, Script, SoapUI, Software, Webservice

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