Home Automation
Smart bed heater update
Smart bed heater update with integrated timer function in ESPHome.
Andrej Friesen
Hey, I am Andrej and I run this blog.
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
Linux
Monitoring SMART Data for your HDDs and SSDs
Since around 2014 I am running a NAS, Server whatever you want to call it. Since then I did not have a drive failure once. Actually, I never had a drive fail me yet, knock on wood. I got interested in how these drives are doing. I was playing around
Today I learned
GitHub CLI auto-completion with Oh-My-Zsh
Setup GitHub CLI auto-completion with Oh-My-Zsh on Linux
Today I learned
Getting the full path of a file or folder in Linux
I often needed to copy the full path from a file or folder when I was somewhere deep in the file system. I always run pwd to get the current directory path, copied the string, pasted it somewhere, and then add the file or folder name behind. This was kind
Home Lab and Hardware
MikroTik CRS328-24P-4S+RM silent Fan Mod
Switch the original fans with Noctua and you get an almost silent switch.
Home Lab and Hardware
I am giving up on MikroTik WiFi
A few weeks back I got myself a nice MikroTikSwitch. I really like the CRS328-24P-4S+RM [https://mikrotik.com/product/CRS326-24G-2SplusRM] which is in use for a few months now. I thought their APs could be a good addition to my network as well. I can not use my FritzBox