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...

Base Installation To install MySQL (or more accurately MariaDB) on your DietPi \ Debian distribution all you need to do is run the following command: sudo apt install mysql-server This will down...

This is one post in a series of getting up and running with Home Assistant from scratch. Today I will be adding my 3D printer to Home Assistant via the octoprint integration, this post will bu...

This is one post in a series of getting up and running with Home Assistant from scratch. Today I am adding in two new sensors which will be used in some upcoming automation rules in Home Assis...

This is one post in a series of getting up and running with Home Assistant from scratch. Today I would like to cover the History component of Home Assistant, and show you how to ignore certain...

This is one post in a series of getting up and running with Home Assistant from scratch. Today we are going to make our Home Assistant deployment a bit smarter by adding in presence detection....

This is one post in a series of getting up and running with Home Assistant from scratch. Today I would like to cover switching from the default SQLite database that Home Assistant uses over to...