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!
Create a Smart Doorbell with a pressure mat and the Aqara
We need more subscribers, Tasmota might come, new hardware revision coming soon.
Prelaunch Page is Live! Next Milestone: 200 Subscribers at Crowd Supply!
How to build a very simple ZigBee Emergency Stop Button for Home Assistant
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
Yak shaving continues. Replacing my SSDs in a BTRFS Raid.
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
Disk failure, BTRFS raid full, borked PiKVM. Everything you need on a Sunday!
Just some small notes how I migrated my services from my Ubuntu 20.04 to 24.04 VPS with Docker
How to configure Docker to check container logs in Netdata with journald
A guide on how to setup unattendedUpgrades on Ubuntu 24.04
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
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
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 prototype arrived and I need to fix some things. But it is working perfectly!
Linux
How to use Ansible Modules without Python and a package manager.
Home Lab and Hardware
Just a few long-term thoughts about the PiKVM.
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
First 3D render of the new pc-switch.
PokyPow
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
Currently looking into how to make the pc-switch a real product. Additionally, there are some software updates for the pc-switch for ESPHome.
How to switch the operation mode for a standing desk so that you do not need to hold the button until the desk has reached its height.
Home Assistant
An intro to Home Assistant. Plus an extended link list to the surrounding ecosystem.