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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

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

Restoring Original IP from Cloudflare to WordPress in K3s / Kubernetes with Traefik

November 6, 2022 by Tobey Leave a Comment
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Unfortunately this does not apply to the IP logged within the comment section, however the log does contain the correct IP. I will revisit this issue and may update this post. Cloudflare offers great solutions for the protection of a webpage. Although most interesting applications require a paid premium account, the free tier also provides … [Read more…]

Posted in: Consumer, Kubernetes, Professional, Security, Tips && Tricks Tagged: Cloudflare, container, docker, github, HTTP, k3s, kubernetes, Software, traefik, Wordpress

Export nutritional data diary from FDDB.info

August 28, 2021 by Tobey 13 Comments
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I have released a new post for the updated version here. 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 … [Read more…]

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

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

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

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

Subtract subquery constant in InfluxDB / Grafana

February 27, 2021 by Tobey 1 Comment
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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…]

Posted in: Consumer, Professional, Tips && Tricks Tagged: fritzbox, github, grafana, influxdb, query, telegraf, TIG

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