Cloudflare offers great solutions for the protection of a webpage. Although most interesting applications require a paid premium account, the free tier also provides some interesting possibilities. For a while now this blog is “protected” by Cloudflare which acts as a reverse proxy. A nice feature using this approach is the obfuscation of the original … [Read more…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
This approach is not maintained anymore by me, as I switched to a new tool, which I posted about here. For my recent activies in calorie counting I used an excellent app called fddbextender which works with the large database of fddb.info. Unfortunately there are no statistics and graphs in the free version. If you’re … [Read more…]
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…]
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…]
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…]