Home Automation
Measuring Air Quality in your Home Office
Measure Air Quality in your Home Office with Home Assistant
Andrej Friesen
Hey, I am Andrej and I run this blog.
Home Automation
Rain Warning Sensor with Home Assistant
Disclaimer: This is only useful for people living in Germany. But you might get inspiration from this post to build this yourself. Let's go. So the other day I stumbled across a competition from the German Make magazine about automation and found a guy who did build a
Home Lab and Hardware
Tuxedo Aura 15 Review - A Good Linux Laptop
A personal review for the Tuxedo Aura 15 from a long time Linux user and developers perspective
The Reddit Impact
The impact of Reddit and what I learned from that.
Home Lab and Hardware
Dell Latitude 5310 - bad performance on Linux
When I started my new job at gridscale (01.08.2020) I got a Dell Latitude 5310. Quickly I found out that this machine is not suiting me well and I want to share my experience. Main workflow This is not about bashing the Dell Latitude 5310. It might be
Home Automation
Smart bed heater update
Smart bed heater update with integrated timer function in ESPHome.
Home Automation
Winter is coming - Build your own "smart" bed warmer
How to build a smart bed warmer with Home Assistant.
Home Lab and Hardware
How to choose an HBA card for your NAS or Server
I needed an HBA for my NAS. Did some research twice (did this a year or two ago already) and forgot everything. HBA stands for Host Bus Adapter and is used to connect SATA or SAS drives via the HBA to the motherboard via the PCIe slot. Here is what
Home Automation
Free Uptime Monitoring and Alerting for your Home Assistant
How to monitor Home Assistant or any other service with a free monitoring tool: UptimeRobot
Today I learned
Docker logs do not show everything when using grep
I always forget how to pipe stderr to stdout. Especially when going through docker logs I need this all the time. docker logs nginx 2>&1 | grep "127." Now I have written this down and I hope I do not to forget this anymore. If so
Self-Hosting
My blog was down
Even though I work in the field of cloud hosting and have learned a lot there, my blog was still down for a stupid error. Out of curiosity I checked my analytics tool (umami [https://umami.is/]) and could not reach it. It is running on the same server this
Today I learned
Boot several ISO images from a single USB thumb drive with Ventoy
I have a few USB thumb drives in my drawer and never remember what each of them does. One was a Windows 10 installation medium, the other was Ubuntu Desktop, and so on. Mostly I will download a new ISO and just flash it again. But that time stops now