It took a little searching to figure out how to setup two UPSs on one Nut server. The trick is leaving the port set to… Read More »Two UPSs One Nut Server

I have had a Schlage zigbee lock for the front door for some time now, and I have always wanted to be able to set… Read More »Zigbee Rotate Door Lock Code for Home Assistant

DNSCrypt is a network protocol that authenticates and encrypts Domain Name System (DNS) traffic between the user’s computer and recursive name servers. It was originally… Read More »Installing DNSCrypt on Ubuntu with PiHole and NextDNS

Back that NAS up. Synology DS220+ rSync backup for the server formerly known as FreeNAS.

Sometimes on Reddit I’ll see someone ask how people have their home security cameras setup with Home Assistant. There are a lot of different options.… Read More »Home Assistant Security Cameras with ZoneMinder and Amcrest

If you found this page, you were probably like me and spent a day trying to get this to work..Hopfully this should get you there.… Read More »Zabbix MySQL Monitoring

Updated: still using GrandWazoo’s FreeNAS ZFS over iSCSI plugin on TrueNAS 12.0-U4.1 and Proxmox 6.4-13. I’m pretty sure I read in the issues section on… Read More »ZFS over iSCSI for Proxmox and FreeNAS

Never really thought about anarchy and libertarianism being one and the same until i met this clown, but they both don’t want to pay taxes.… Read More »Got The Whole Squad Laughing

It took me a bit to get an alarm clock going in Home Assistant. I also wanted to try waking up to the light gradually… Read More »Home Assistant Alarm Clock

Presence detection is one of the hardest things to get setup reliably in home automation. NMAP is probably the easiest way to get it done,… Read More »Home Assistant Device Tracker using NMAP, Life360, and Bluetooth

Being able to have google cast Home Assistant is pretty handy but kinda hard to do. For this I have Home Assistant Cloud and IFTTT… Read More »Firing off Home Assistant cast with an IFTTT webhook.

Found this useful if you use Telegram. Create an IFTTT applet to text a Telegram group whenever you say Ok, Google tell group blah blah… Read More »Google Assistant to Telegram Group

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I hope it works with zoneminder. https://t.co/7m9ptZUY8t — జ్ఞ‌ా (@marcelliotnet) July 19, 2019

If you haven’t done so already create a www folder and a themes.yaml in config. In the configuration.yaml change the frontend to: In the themes.yaml… Read More »Home Assistant Lovelace Theme

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Copy the question and edit it for the patch list you want to report on. In my case 14. This will give you server names,… Read More »Create a Save Question for Patch List Compliance in Tanium

all that room for activities.