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FDDB Exporter: Now with MongoDB, Full Entry Retrieval, and REST API

October 8, 2024 by Tobey Leave a Comment
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In a significant update to the FDDB Exporter (see the old post here), I’ve redesigned the tool, improving both its functionality and code quality. The new version introduces several key features, making it more powerful and user-friendly. Key New Features: Improved Code Quality and User Login In addition to the feature improvements, I’ve refactored the … [Read more…]

Posted in: Automation, Consumer Tagged: automation, container, docker, fddb, fddb exporter, github, grafana, influxdb, kubernetes, rest, Software

Automating Script Execution on Program Exit

January 1, 2024 by Tobey Leave a Comment

In the realm of digital note-taking, Obsidian stands out as a powerful tool for documentation and crafting your personal second brain. There are a lot of other tools, like Notion, but Obsidian takes the crown for me as it safes all files locally in Markdown. However, for a meticulous user like myself, ensuring that every … [Read more…]

Posted in: Automation, Consumer, Professional, Tips && Tricks Tagged: automation, git, Script, Software, Windows

Adding a Home Assistant Timer to Stream Deck

September 26, 2023 by Tobey Leave a Comment

In the world of home automation, precision and convenience often go hand in hand. So, when I found myself juggling multiple timers for my washing machine, dishwasher, and a custom 35-minute countdown, I knew there had to be a way to keep it all at a glance. Enter the Stream Deck – a nifty tool … [Read more…]

Posted in: Consumer, Tips && Tricks Tagged: automation, home assistant, Software, Stream Deck

Linting Dockerfiles in Jenkins Pipelines with Hadolint

August 13, 2023 by Tobey Leave a Comment
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In this blog post, I’ll walk you through how I streamlined my Docker-based workflows by linting Dockerfiles with Hadolint in Jenkins pipelines. By integrating this powerful tool, I’ve managed to elevate my pipeline’s efficiency and ensure code quality at every step. The Quest for the Perfect Linter As a firm believer in building Docker images … [Read more…]

Posted in: Automation, Professional Tagged: automation, build, container, docker, github, image, jenkins, Software

Building a mobile app with Flutter for the fddb-exporter backend

February 11, 2023 by Tobey Leave a Comment
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preamble As an intermittent user of FDDB.info I have logged my consumed meals for quite a while in a mobile application each day. However as all graphs and analytics data can only be used by paying premium members of the application and I wanted to create dashboards using Grafana for my data, I was looking … [Read more…]

Posted in: Consumer Tagged: Android, App, automation, export, fddb.info, flutter, github, grafana, open source, Software

Running Background Scripts in Windows without Terminal Pop-up

December 20, 2022 by Tobey 1 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 5 Comments
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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 1 Comment
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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
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