Thursday, November 14, 2024

Update Home Assistant docker installation

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In order to safely update your docker container in a Synology NAS. I assume you manage your docker containers via docker-compose List the ru...
Monday, November 11, 2024

Home Assistant button with automation on your dashboard and state not always on

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If you want to add a button to your dashboard that will trigger an automation once clicked, but you don't like the fact that by default ...
Friday, October 6, 2023

Connect to Fluvius smart energy meter via P1 and publish data via MQTT broker to Home Assistant

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I created a python script that runs as a service to read out the Fluvius energy meter via the P1 port to USB on a Raspberry Pi. See installa...
Monday, October 2, 2023

Install SBFSpot to read out SMA Sunny Boy data and make data available over MQTT for Home Assistant

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I want to read out a SMA Sunny Boy data and make it available via MQTT to Home Assistant. Installation of SBFSpot on a Rasberry Pi is really...
Monday, September 25, 2023

Advanced installation of a Raspberry Pi with Raspbian Bullseye

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When installing a Raspberry Pi, I have a checklist of steps I take each time to ensure my Raspberry Pi's are (mostly) configured in the ...
Thursday, September 21, 2023

Watchtower not working on Synology DSM 6.0.x as a Docker container

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When installing the standard Watchtower container onto DSM 6.0 with Docker, I ran into 2 issues which caused the container not to run and co...
Monday, September 18, 2023

ipmitool not working on Supermicro server with Debian 12

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I have a server with a Supermicro X7SBI motherboard. It has a dedicated IPMI port but I could no do anything with it, as this was a second h...