I have been needing to rebuild some of the core components of my Home Automation stack for quite some time now, but have been struggling to find the time to do it. I have also been wanting to try c...

This post covers the process of collecting performance data from most Sonoff devices, in this instance I will be working with my Sonoff Pow R2. Requirements To follow along you will need the follo...

Today I would like to cover getting up and running with Telegraf on my SBC computers, namely most arm/arm64 based Debian distros. This will be a brief post just covering the commands \ “hacks” use...

I am currently developing a custom data-source for Grafana and needed to run the server in HTTPS mode in order to test out a rather odd use-case, this is just a quick post on how I did it - hopeful...

I work out of the basement at home and often don’t hear when my wife gets back from work or my daughter gets back from school. I wanted a way to be notified when either the front door (or back door...

Today I am going to quickly cover getting a php script up and running in Docker. In case you are unfamiliar with Docker: Docker is a tool designed to make it easier to create, deploy, and run a...

Today I would like to cover installing InfluxDB on a Windows computer. In case you didn’t know “InfluxDB is a high-performance data store written specifically for time series data”, and this is ext...

In this post I will cover the setup and configuration of OctoPrint from scratch. I will cover everything from installing OctoPrint to getting a webcam up and running. This post is a bit longer than...

In this post I am going to cover getting one of my .net core projects built in AppVeyor and automatically publishing to NuGet on a successful build. Project structure As it stands my project curre...

This is one post in a series of getting up and running with Home Assistant from scratch. Today I would like to tackle breaking up your configuration file (configuration.yaml) into smaller, mor...