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Often, especially with home lab setups, we will deploy a service that has no authentication of its own. If we want this service exposed to the internet, our options usually are to use HTTP Basic Au...
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I have two main ways of storing data in my environment. First, there’s Longhorn, which stores the data locally on the workers which is then replicated and served across the network node-to-node c...
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I’ve been using Home Assistant for exactly one month now, and I’ve developed some clear opinions in that time.
Before I get too far into it, a word on what Home Assistant is. Home Assistant (or H...
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I wanted to measure temperature and humidity and the options to do so in pre-built packages that integrate with Home Assistant all fell short, so I made my own. Why would you want to do something l...
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Here’s the scenario: You have a cell phone, a streaming device and a laptop and you want to send their traffic over a VPN without having to configure the devices themselves.
Why would you want to...
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Recently I changed up my security system. Previously I was using MotionEye to watch my security cameras and when motion was detected in certain areas of the frame, it would save the video to a...
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Now, how did I do it?
First I purchased a few smart plugs. I got 3 Kasa KP115, which are very reasonably priced.
Then I set the smart plugs up on my network like normal using the app (and upgra...
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I started using Atlantis at the behest of a friend who urged me to use it instead of GitHub actions for managing Terraform repositories.
Configuring it was slightly more involved than I expected,...
