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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
Secure HAProxy with Let’s Encrypt Read More »
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
Let’s Encrypt Certificate – Synology NAS Howto Read More »
There are a number of times when I have had to change one string to another in a MySQL table. In the past I would do a MySQL dump, edit
MySQL: Search and Replace Read More »
