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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Adding an “About Me” page
When starting with an about me page the day after the third KrautPress Website Club, I made very quick progress until the next day. Then, something wild happened …
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WordPress Playground is really cool
I just played around with WordPress Playground to run Playwright tests with it and it’s really cool.
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My new personal blog
I’ve been blogging since 2010 (at kittblog.com) and finally start a new era into personal blogging. I usually tended to blog about various technical stuff, but this blog should be a little bit different.
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