UEFI Settings are strange - Always on USB for the MSI MAG B550M MORTAR WIFI
Enabling USB Always on for MSI Motherboard and some PokyPow Updates
Latest
How to Remove the Login Password in Windows 11, Power On with Home Assistant and keep your Steam Games up to Date
How to make your PC more like a console: Remove the Windows Password prompt. Automatically update your favorite games. Start your PC with Home Assistant and the PokyPow. Plus a small PokyPow Demo with my Setup.
Happy Holidays - Favorite Smart Home Gadget
My favorite smart home gadget is a robot vacuum and mop! My personal PokyPow use case. I am working on a cat litter box scale to automatically vacuum the area around the cat litter box. And: Happy holidays!
Smart Doorbell for Cats with Home Assitant
Create a Smart Doorbell with a pressure mat and the Aqara
PokyPow Updates and Tasmota
We need more subscribers, Tasmota might come, new hardware revision coming soon.
The PokyPow Prelaunch Page is live!
Prelaunch Page is Live! Next Milestone: 200 Subscribers at Crowd Supply!
An Emergency Stop Button with ZigBee and Home Assistant
How to build a very simple ZigBee Emergency Stop Button for Home Assistant
pc-switch renamed to PokyPow and other small updates
Hey nerds 👋 🚨The PokyPow prelaunch page is live! Sign up there for stock updates at Crowdsupply. I am working with Crowdsupply on a couple of things, including the campaign's landing page. I hope I can make it public soon. Send them some prototypes and they took very nice
Replacing disks in BTRFS
Yak shaving continues. Replacing my SSDs in a BTRFS Raid.
Missed Comments - Mailcow with Ghost
Hey folks 👋 just a quick technical update. I configured this Ghost blog to use my own Mailcow instance. But there was a misconfiguration on the Ghost side of things and therefore I missed a few comments. I found that those emails were rejected from rspamd in the Mailcow interface. Still
My first disk failure with BTRFS
Disk failure, BTRFS raid full, borked PiKVM. Everything you need on a Sunday!
Migrating my VPS
Just some small notes how I migrated my services from my Ubuntu 20.04 to 24.04 VPS with Docker
Linux
View your Docker Container Logs with Netdata
How to configure Docker to check container logs in Netdata with journald
Linux
Automatic Server Updates - unattendedUpgrades with email notifications
A guide on how to setup unattendedUpgrades on Ubuntu 24.04
Linux
ARM is coming, On Linux
Tuxedo announced in their newsletter that they are working on an ARM machine. It is about the Snapdragon X1 Elite SoC: TUXEDO on ARM is coming - TUXEDO ComputersTUXEDO on ARM is coming: As you may have gathered from the relevant press over the last few days, we at TUXEDO
PokyPow
pc-switch accepted by crowd supply
Hey nerds 🤓 🚨The PokyPow prelaunch page is live! Sign up there for stock updates at Crowdsupply. Just a quick update. I applied the pc-switch project to crowd supply. This is a well known hardware related crowd sourcing company. I think the home assistant yellow was also funded there: Home Assistant
Self-Hosting
Thoughts on first-time Proxmox use
My thoughs on first time using Proxmox. It is okay, but too much hacking on the host OS. I would not recommend it for new self-hosters, only when you need virtualization.
PokyPow
pc-switch - first testing boards arrived
pc-switch prototype arrived and I need to fix some things. But it is working perfectly!
Linux
How to use Ansible Modules without Python installed
How to use Ansible Modules without Python and a package manager.
Home Lab and Hardware
Long term pi kvm review
Just a few long-term thoughts about the PiKVM.
Not owning a car and my carsharing experience
My personal car-sharing experience with cambio car. Especially, my costs data for you to get a feeling of how much it costs for a day trip, weekend trip or even a 1 week vacation.
PokyPow
pc-switch: first 3D render
First 3D render of the new pc-switch.
PokyPow
pc-switch: Updates and I need your help
pc-switch update: I know which ESP32-C3 module to use and ramble about which antenna to use. And another reminder to take the survey.
PokyPow
pc-switch evolves to a product?
Currently looking into how to make the pc-switch a real product. Additionally, there are some software updates for the pc-switch for ESPHome.