The problem I had was that over the years I had changed a lot of things to smart things in such a way that they could not be controlled directly. These include wall lights in the living room, light bulbs on the patio and the front gate. I just received
I recently have bought this little knob below. 13.28€ 10% de réduction|Zigbee Commutateur de bouton intelligent sans fil pour la maison intelligente, contrôleur de bouton de commutation à distance, fonctionne avec Zigéquation Gateway, Smart Life Andrea | AliExpressAchetez malin, vivez mieux! Aliexpress.comaliexpress.com It comes with battery already
Spring is here, so of course I had to do some tidying up and tending to my lawn. After mowing, scarifying, aerating, reseeding where holes had appeared and fertilising, the only thing left to do was to keep the lawn well watered. The grass I sowed was Wimbledon. The optimum
This is cross-post from my blog in polish devoted to NetBSD I run several blogs. All under NetBSD as the OS, and Ghost CMS. This type of stack is not officially supported, but since we have nodejs in pkgsrc along with npm and yarn, why shouldn't it work
I self host matomo server instead of Google Analytics. Suddenly some time ago I lost ability to log in, because my 2FA codes stopped working. In my great wisdom I also didn't save any recovery codes.. So here it is how to recover from this situation, and what
This is a rewrite in English of my very first post here, as I think it will be helpful to others looking for how to get the old idrac 6 Java console (tested on DELL R410 and R710) to work nowadays. In fact, I needed to get access to broken
I recently built a new PC with all the latest technology. With DDR5 and 14th generation CPUs, which are still quite new, there are a lot of challenges to even start freshly built PC. I finally got it to boot and display the splash screen. Happily, I started to browse
With the recent CVE for Roundcube, which even our Polish NASK/CERT sent messages to owners of domains with Roundcube exposed to the Internet, I was in a hurry to patch it. However, as of pkgsrc 2023Q3 there is no Roundcube 1.6.4, so I did it with the
Today I booted up my laptop for the first time in 1.5 months as I mainly work from my workstation. After quite a while all updates were downloaded and installed. I did another reboot and after that I wanted to start my home XenOrchestra and then I was greeted
So I recently bought a FireTV device on Prime Day at a pretty good discount. I have an old, not so smart TV with a PS4 connected to it. Whenever we want to watch some movies, we use PS4 with TV aps installed on it, but PS4 is loud even
It has happened to me that I have to reboot a non-critical machine which is a DELL PE 2850. Of course with such old hardware it's iDRAC requires Internet Explorer 7 or something, and it has all the compromised ciphers that modern browsers don't allow. Fortunately
I'm continuing with the HPE server resurrection mentioned in the previous post. Updating firmware with newest SSP ISO (P52574_001_spp-Gen9.1-Gen9SPPGen91.2022_0822.4.iso) went smooth. All disks, and NICs ware updated. However BIOS remained the same v2.90 from 2021. So I downloaded the latest
It was time to pull the 'not so old' HPE ProLiant 380 Gen9 server out of storage, as it had found a use for it as a backup test server. The ILO was statically configured on a subnet that I didn't happen to be using. Nor
Long story short, a nodejs module was missing. This module is called "sharp". How do I know this? Well, in case of an error with ghost, you can easily go into debug mode by stopping host with ghost stop and then running it in debug mode with ghost
Recently, I came across an old backup on one of my NAS that I made with Paragon Software. Unfortunately, the new version is incompatible with version 14.
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I was doing Zigbee2Mqtt update in Home Assistant, and part of this update is always reboot of whole HA VM, because my Conbee II which is passed-trough in XCP-NG can't survive this update. I need to shutdown VM, reattach USB to it and start it again. Normally this
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This isn't a post about "BaD AI ToOk OVER MY HoME, BeWaRE!". I was wondering if there was a way to make lights go on and off randomly in Home Assistant. I imagined an alarm automation that, when a breach is detected, could just start a
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First of all, I apologise for this horror title, but I didn't know how to name it properly, so I just filled it with problems I encountered. So I have been having this problem for quite a while. At some point, a simple "ghost update" would
This is a very brief note about a problem that recently happened to me. After normally starting my PS5 with controller by pressing the central PS button, the console would start up normally. I was then able to browse menu, store, settings etc. After starting the game I was greeted
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Zakładam, że jeżeli tu trafiłeś, to sam kocioł masz już podłączony i działający, tak samo jak moduł CM.I Moduł CM.I, może pracować zarówno w trybie chmurowym jak i lokalnym, przy czym, jeżeli masz podłączony moduł do chmury Kospel, to w Twojej sieci jest on również widoczny pod lokalnym
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This is kind of note to myself because I've spent quite some time figuring everything out. My goal was to use LCD monitor with 20 chars x 4 rows with one of ESP32 boards to display as many usefull information as possible. First what we need - you
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TimescaleDB is extension for PostgreSQL database that greatly improve performance of database by automatically partitioning data into time-based chunks to support faster performance at scale. I use it with my Zabbix server when partitioning is a must when you have large amount of statistics. However update of TimescaleDB is a
Today suddenly all incoming mails ware rejected by my mailserver. People contacted me with information, that they received undelivered notification with status of: 5.7.1 Service unavailable; Client host [SENDER IP] blocked using sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org; Error: open resolver; Now what the heck is open resolver? At first I
After switching to from 8.x to 9.x of ESET Security product and also Eset Web Console (On-prem), I started to receive warnings of push notifications servers not reachable. For this network and implementation is a mix of two or three things. 1. Clients have to be able to
It took me way too long than I want to admit. So here is a problem. After adding new device to cacti with properly configured SNMP, it detects interfaces, and graph title is constructed from its hostname, IP, name of interface and some static words like Traffic. This laeads to
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I was blown away today while randomly checking something on my Windows Share with Family photos. When setting up TrueNAS I've ofcourse configured daily snapshots. To my knowledge, ZFS snapshots can be viewed when mounting in separate mount, then you can get old version or deleted file from
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My rocksolid OpenVPN server dropped every connection at once. Quick inspection of logs on server shown: 2022-01-17 11:07:28 us=339922 MULTI: multi_create_instance called 2022-01-17 11:07:28 us=340120 x.x.x.x:65086 Re-using SSL/TLS context 2022-01-17 11:07:28 us=340967 x.x.
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I just discovered this awesome self-hosted app called BookStack [https://www.bookstackapp.com/] while searching for something I can use to store all knowledge and instructions for myself from various of systems, networks, scripts etc. Luckily there is addon in Home Assistant. So installation is just as simple as few
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I've spent countless hours debugging this, and solution is so simple... Context. I had an UniFI controller as an addon to Home Assistant on Raspberry Pi 4. It was working as expected for years. Then RPi 4 started to not be enough for my HA, and also other
I aquired old Dell PowerEdge R710, and wanted to give him second life as temporary NAS with 15k SAS drives. As it was provided as is there ware password on iDrac that I didn't know, so I reset to factory defaults. After login and launching virtual console (which
As the title said. I got my very old VM with still Windows 7 running, and I wanted to upgrade it in place to Windows 10. This is not supported oficially by Microsoft nowdays, but you can just download Update Assistant [https://www.microsoft.com/pl-pl/software-download/windows10] and run
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I had enough of checking everyday maillog on various systems so I wanted to have complete list from last day of IPs that I need to block on my firewall. I already have ACL for mail server, and I wanted to copy-paste already prepared commands on top of it, as