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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

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

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

DIY Smart Home Thermometer / Humidity Sensor with ESP32 and DHT22

April 4, 2021 by Tobey Leave a Comment
ESP32

As I got further into the Smart Home game, I encountered a type of device I’ve never thought of using: microcontrollers. Reading into the possibilities I recognized these little things as a power and cost efficient way of handling different (light) tasks. Because I’ve already had a DHT22 lying around, which was used with a … [Read more…]

Posted in: Consumer, Smart Home Tagged: automation, C++, dht22, esp32, github, grafana, influxdb, microcontroller, smart home, telegraf

Read external InfluxDB in Home Assistant as a sensor

February 20, 2021 by Tobey 11 Comments
Home Assistant

Setting up the environment During a current project I looked into HomeAssistant as a central component / hub for home automation. When starting out with HomeAssistant it is recommended to install the software either as a OS distribution (HASS OS) or run a supervised installation, which is just a couple of fancy bash scripts that … [Read more…]

Posted in: Consumer Tagged: automation, container, docker, grafana, home assistant, influxdb, 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

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