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…]
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…]
When setting up my local K3s on a Intel NUC I thought it would be nice to use Ingress resources to access the services instead of using a node-port. As those services will only be used inside my LAN (and I didn’t want to have an invalid certificate warning) I decided to use a self-signed … [Read more…]
When setting up my new K3s cluster I needed some sort of redirect from HTTP to HTTPS. One option that is often found when searching for this issue is to redirect all traffic with Traefik. This however is not suitable if you just want some services to redirect and not everything in the cluster. Especially … [Read more…]
The need for a query Some time ago I’ve decided to gather information from my FritzBox router to display in Grafana. I stumbled upon a TIG (Telegraf, InfluxDB, Grafana) stack on Github, which I forked and dockerized. I found a Grafana dashboard to import on another fork (included in my fork as well) which is … [Read more…]
For a small project (a microcontroller with a temperature sensor) I needed a mqtt broker to process the sensors data to display it in Grafana. There’s already a TIG stack running on my server, so it was obvious to me that I will go with Mosquitto. For some reason Mosquitto never returned any data scraped … [Read more…]
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…]
Issue: When opening web.airmore.com in the browser to establish a connection between the smartphone and the browser, the website is not loading correctly anymore. I’m using the Airmore app to connect from my desktop computer to my phone to transfer files. Recently the website for the connection, which is available by web.airmore.com, did not load … [Read more…]
Issue: Keyboard and mouse input is not registered, when using a Teamviewer session on a host running VMWare Horizon. A few days ago I was confronted with a simple yet annoying occurence. I was using a VMWare Horizon session and a colleague needed to input some credentials in my session. On the same host which … [Read more…]
Issue: How can I restore mails from a removed Thunderbird account when the files are still present on the filesystem? This method of restoring mails does only work when there are still the necessary files on your filesystem present, e.g. if you have removed an account from Thunderbird but did not uninstall the program or … [Read more…]