Anonymous Access in Grafana (Hass.io)
Grafana is an excellent program to create very cool graphs and charts from your Home Assistant sensor data. If you are using Grafana and want to embed […]
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Forcing a sensor update in Home Assistant
Home Assistant is event driven. This means that most sensors will not get updated into the database unless the value of the sensor changes. This is not usually
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ZFS Bare Metal Restore
This article documents the procedure to do a full bare metal restore of a FreeBSD ZFS system that has been backed up with ZFS send.
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Using sockstat to look at open ports in FreeBSD
If you need to know what ports are open and listening on your FreeBSD servers, you can use a few commands. Netstat -An used to me my goto command for
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Convert Certificates from PFX to PEM
This artice shows how to extract all the certificates and key file from .pfx file using openssl and remove any password if required.
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Building an IR Universal Remote for OpenHAB (Part 2)
This is part two of the Universal Rremote for OpenHAB project. In this part, we will install and configure the Lirc software on our Raspberry Pi. Part 1
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Building an IR Universal Remote for OpenHAB (Part 1)
This is the first part of a multi-part project to build an IR receiver/transmitter that will work with my existing remote and talk with my OpenHAB server.
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Secure HAProxy with Let’s Encrypt
I currently run Octoprint on a Raspberry Pi that is hooked up to be 3D printer. This setup uses HAProxy to provider the web front end for the user. I
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Secure HAProxy with Let’s Encrypt
I currently run Octoprint on a Raspberry Pi that is hooked up to be 3D printer. This setup uses HAProxy to provider the web front end for the user. I
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Let’s Encrypt Certificate – Synology NAS Howto
I own a Synology NAS and it now supports the free certificates from Let’s Encrypt. The only problem with Synology’s implimentation is that they only allow the web (HTTP-01) method
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