Archive: 2022
Home Assistant - Work Days / Work Hours sensor
December 15, 2022 · in Home-Automation · 2 min read
Creating simple sensors to determine if we are “at work”. Includes setting up a work_days sensor, time of day sensor, and a template sensor to tie everything togather.
EG4 Rack Assembly
December 10, 2022 · in Solar · 3 min read
As apart of the Home Solar Project, I purchased and assembled an EG4 battery rack.
Home Solar Project - Part 2 - Battery Selection
December 9, 2022 · in Solar · 7 min read
For the second part of my Home Solar Project, I researched possible solutions and ordered batteries.
Home Solar Project - Part 1 - Introduction
December 8, 2022 · in Solar · 4 min read
One of my projects I have been working on over the last two years, is adding solar panels to my house to offset some/most of my electrical usage.
Kasa powerstrip as PDU
December 2, 2022 · in Home-Automation, Technology · 4 min read
Using a Tp-link kasa HS300 as a low-cost switchable PDU. This product has features for per-outlet power monitoring as well.
Reasons to avoid cloud-based automation products
December 1, 2022 · in Home-Automation · 11 min read
On this blog / my house, I try to use 100% local control products whenever possible. Many people don’t understand the reasoning behind this…. So, I am dedicating this page to reasons as to why you should ONLY buy products which are 100% local control only, with no cloud dependency, and no proprietary hub.
2023 Home Assistant - Energy Monitoring
November 29, 2022 · in Home-Automation · 8 min read
Static Site
November 19, 2022 · in Kubernetes · 3 min read
Why am I moving away from wordpress?
Transitioning to Kubernetes
November 18, 2022 · in Kubernetes · 2 min read
Over the last few months, I decided to learn kubernetes.
TrueNAS Scale - VM Cannot Access TrueNAS
October 28, 2022 · in Technology · 2 min read
How to address Virtual Machines and/or containers not being able to access the TrueNAS Scale server hosting them.
TrueNAS Scale - Enable apt-get
October 28, 2022 · in Technology · 2 min read
A quick guide on re-enabling the apt-get functionality.
Parsing SCCM Collections
October 26, 2022 · in Development · 7 min read
This post details how to extract useful information from the SCCM Schedules format.
C# - Get Display Attribute Value from Enum
October 4, 2022 · in Development · 2 min read
Every now and then, I have a use case where decorating an Enum’s values with Attributes comes in handy. Things such as… Adding Display Names, Descriptions, etc.
How to run public wordpress securely, from your home.
August 23, 2022 · in Technology · 7 min read
TFS / Azure Devops - Semantic Versioning
July 14, 2022 · in Development · 2 min read
I publish nuget packages. Alot of nuget packages.
Fire Tablet as Home Assistant Kiosk
July 8, 2022 · in Home-Automation · 10 min read
r720XD / TrueNAS continued power reduction
May 2, 2022 · in Technology · 3 min read
TrueNAS – iSCSI – GPT Protective partition
April 29, 2022 · in Technology · 1 min read
While migrating from TrueNAS Scale to Core, I ran into an issue when remounting my existing iSCSI shares.
Moving From TrueNAS Scale to Core
April 29, 2022 · in Technology · 4 min read
Home Assistant Alarm
April 24, 2022 · in Home-Automation, Technology · 6 min read
So, you want to have an alarm for your house. But, you don’t want to give your money to ADT/Ring/SimpliSafe/etc… and you want to build it yourself, with components you can easily service and replace, right? If so, this is the article for you.
Reolink RLC-520 - Set Custom NTP
April 24, 2022 · in Home-Automation, Technology · 1 min read
I have a few Reolink cameras. Recently, I noticed the time of many of the cameras was not set correctly.
Embedded Door Sensors
April 24, 2022 · in Home-Automation, Technology · 2 min read
The default directions for installing doors sensors, involves using the included double-sized tape directly stick the sensor to doors and windows.
First Alert Z-Wave Combo CO/Smoke Detector
April 20, 2022 · in Home-Automation · 3 min read
This is a simple review, with a few steps for the First Alert Z-Wave CO/Smoke detectors.
Attempting to Reduce Power Consumption and Improving Performance
April 10, 2022 · in Technology · 5 min read
Pioneer Mini Split - Home Assistant
March 27, 2022 · in Home-Automation · 9 min read
TrueNAS Scale - Infiniband
March 26, 2022 · in Technology · 10 min read
Well, I have been wanting to get infiniband working for a while. I decided today was as good of a time as any…. So, I made it happen.
Programmable Thermostat GUI
March 25, 2022 · in Home-Automation, Technology · 5 min read
A while back, after converting my primary thermostat over to z-wave, I found a creative way of managing my thermostat’s schedules using the scheduler-card.
40Gb Ethernet Cost and Benchmarks
January 26, 2022 · in Technology · 6 min read
40Gb Ethernet Cost and Benchmarks
January 26, 2022 · in Technology · 5 min read
A while back, you may have seen my post for my 10/40GBe Network Upgrade. However, you were likely disappointed like myself, due to the lack of any actual 40GBe test results.
R720XD Bifurcation
January 8, 2022 · in Technology · 8 min read
Wait, the R720XD doesn’t support bifurcation?
Is power consumption the best metric for selecting a server?
January 4, 2022 · in Technology · 6 min read
Multiple times per day, I end up browsing reddit and running into…. MANY posts from people trying to hit the lowest possible power draw, no matter what the hardware costs to get there.