The notification system is King in my Home Assistant setup. I can have visitors that are completely unaware of smart features in my home; up until the house notifies me of finished laundry, garbage collection, an open door or that someone is approaching the house.
Because notifications are so prom...
This is a guide to create your own ESPHome multisensor. The multisensor is packed with functionality in an elegant box. The components cost as little as 20$. The price includes the ESP-WROOM-32 development board and temperature, relative humidity, light, motion and sound detection, plus an RTTTL b...
So I've struggled some time with getting the KY-037 and KY-038 sensors working for ambent sound detection/tracking in ESPHome. These sensors seem to lack sensitivity to be used for anything short of detecting alarms or really loud sounds.
I wanted to build a device to measure the general noise in...
Looking waaay back to the blog post about setting up NFS for filesharing with Windows clients, I find it necessary to apologize for misleading my two faithful readers. I'm sorry!
In the beginning, it seemed easy to share files over NFS and it worked really well - until I noticed the craziness...
NFS is a great way to share files across a computer network. If you have a Ubuntu 18.04 server and want to share files to Windows 10 Pro or Enterprise clients (or Linux based clients), you've come to the right place.
Some time ago, I bought a Synology NAS because Synology has a nice app that can...
Docker is great for deploying apps in a consistent manner at great speed. If you've got your configuration backed up, it's also pretty easy to replicate a docker stack on completely new hardware in a matter of minutes.
However, Docker isn't just about configuration. It's also about data. Your Dock...