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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]