I was recently tasked with creating a small deployment to host a single virtual machine at a customer site. The purpose of the virtual machine was to provide us with remote access to a specific customer resource that was otherwise unavailable to us. The deployment consisted of two physical machines running as Proxmox hypervisors (node-1 […]
So, I’ve mentioned in a post or two that I have a home automation system running, but haven’t really talked about what it is or what it can do… Well, here’s an overview! What is it? Home-Assistant. It’s a fairly new home automation (HA) platform, that has gained a large following over the past couple
I’ve begun integrating the solar pump into the home automation system running in my house (Home-Assistant) using the MySensors platform. The goal is to be able to control the pump via Home-Assistant, and have Home-Assistant automatically water the garden when needed. So far, I’ve setup a MySensors Gateway, connected it to my Home-Assistant instance, and created a
I had a conundrum. I was making unnecessary trips down three and a half flights of stairs only to turn around, make the return trip, wait a while, and do it all again. I could never tell when communal laundry space was in use, nor could I tell whether or not the washer or dryer
I was watching FLOSS Weekly on Leo Laporte’s TWiT.tv Network earlier this week when they happened to mention the BigBlueButton project. I had never heard of it at the time, but was certainly glad that I found about it. It’s an online web-conferencing platform that kicks the crap out of everything that I’ve previously heard