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Export nutritional data diary from FDDB.info

August 28, 2021 by Tobey Leave a Comment
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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…]

Posted in: Consumer Tagged: csv, database, docker, export, fddb.info, github, micronaut, open source, postgres, spring

Project: Smart Home Dashboard

August 2, 2021 by Tobey Leave a 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

Specific calendar events crash the Home Assistant integration

July 25, 2021 by Tobey Leave a Comment
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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

Export daily calories from fddb.info to a database

March 19, 2021 by Tobey Leave a Comment
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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…]

Posted in: Consumer Tagged: csv, database, docker, export, fddb.info, github, open source, postgres

Read external InfluxDB in Home Assistant as a sensor

February 20, 2021 by Tobey 8 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

Connecting Telegraf to Mosquitto with output to InfluxDb

February 14, 2021 by Tobey 2 Comments
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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…]

Posted in: Consumer, Professional, Tips && Tricks Tagged: docker, influxdb, mosquitto, mqtt, telegraf

Using the External Renderer for Grafana Docker

February 7, 2021 by Tobey 8 Comments
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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

Android Backups – Nextcloud vs. Resilio Sync

July 20, 2020 by Tobey 5 Comments
nextcloud-vs-resilio

Issue: I want to backup specific, existing folders of multiple Android devices. The backup has to be done locally inside the LAN and encryption at rest is a must-have. tl;dr: Resilio Sync hosted on a Raspberry Pi / Odroid / NUC does the job perfectly with their app. Nextcloud is far slower and the FolderSync … [Read more…]

Posted in: Consumer Tagged: Android, App, backup, container, docker, linux, nextcloud, resilio, Software, webdav

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

July 11, 2020 by Tobey 1 Comment
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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
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