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…]
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…]
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 migrate a Teamspeak 3 server on Sqlite to a Docker container featuring MariaDB as a database? Although this seems to be rather straightforward as there is an official Image of Teamspeak 3 server on Dockerhub, there are still a few hoops you got to jump through, especially regarding the MariaDB database. … [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…]
Issue: Container hostnames won’t get resolved to IP addresses within the default docker network. This is more of a hint than a fix or workaround for an issue. When playing around with Docker I’ve noticed hostnames of containers could not be resolved by other containers. So when setting up a Nextcloud instance I was forced … [Read more…]