I had been playing with Grafana, InfluxDB, Telegraf and Prometheus the last two weeks and can now share my story of what I finally use to replace my Netdata instances and why.
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Home Assistant Proximity vs. iCloud3 v3 vs. Traccar
I recently stumbled upon the Proximity integration of Home Assistant as well as Traccar to track your devices. Until now, I used the iCloud3 v3 component to do such things. Time to compare them.
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Automatically synchronize documents with Paperless-ngx on macOS
On the one hand, I use a rather classic local file structure to manage my documents, but also use Paperless-ngx to manage them (and especially for search). Thus, I want to keep my local structure, but also automatically upload the documents in Paperless-ngx.
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CO2MqttSensor as Docker app in TrueNAS
After a very interesting (German) toot about a CO₂ sensor I also purchased such a sensor (TFA Dostman AIRCO₂NTROL MINI) and of course my goal was to have it as sensor within Home Assistant. Luckily, there already is a project to collect the sensor data via MQTT, called CO2MqttSensor. Unfortunately at first, while it’s possible to get it running via shell in TrueNAS, it is not recommended, since it would require to install a system service to stay running. But there is a solution via a Docker app!
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Comment colors updated
My today’s achievement: updated comment colors of my theme in VSCodium for improved readability.
Yes, you can adjust it yourself even if you use a custom theme.
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New combined temperature/humidity Home Assistant card
While searching for improving the way to display temperature and humidity in Home Assistant, I found a new way by using some custom cards.
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Self-hosting slash page is official 🎉
Yesterday, during the 6. KrautPress Website Club, we talked about my new self-hosting slash page. The idea spun up to make it official, so I firmly asked @robb@social.lol whether he would include it and just a few hours later, it’s now officially part of slashpages.net. 🥳
So: let’s spread the word, share your self-hosted software and show me your self-hosting software!
By the way, if you need inspiration, check out awesome-selfhosted and selfh.st.
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Successful vacation
When having vacation, many people want to travel. I’m different. I want to work on my projects. And so I did the last two weeks. And it was great fun by working on multiple projects to take them further. For me, developing is not just a job, it’s my passion and I also love to do it in my free time.
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Home Office vs. Office
The last three weeks, I was forced to come to the office every day. And I was not amused. Even before, but also now afterwards. Things have changed …
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