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Category Archives: Geek
What I Did on My Mid-Summer Vacation: Day 3
If I had a late start yesterday, I was even more delayed on the third day.
First, I was informed that “the family” had decided that they wanted ad-blocking turned back on on the pfSense firewall. I was told to turn this off several months ago.… Read the rest
Posted in Geek, Life, Woodworking
Tagged dumpster, Lowes blows, old man workout, pfSense, RV living, shed, small home solutions
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Neofetch: For Super-Cool Login Banners
While I am writing blog posts, this is one that I find myself searching for quite often. Be another one to bake into the Ansible template. If you want a wicked awesome login banner, like this one:
sudo apt install neofetch
sudo bash -c $'echo "neofetch" >> /etc/profile.d/mymotd.shFun with Proxmox, PRTG, SNMP, and a boatload of Mea Cupla
The Elitedesk 800 G4 Mini PC is just about 100% built, hardware-wise. I am waiting for the VGA Flex IO port to arrive. Looks like I put it in the cart, but did not press “Buy” for a few days, so, mea culpa.… Read the rest
Posted in Geek
Tagged Fly like an eagle, HP EliteDesk 800, Linux, Mea Culpa, Proxmox, PRTG, snmp, Windows10
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Home Assistant 2022.7 Update: History
Learned about the update to History via this YouTube video.
Holy crows, this is a good one! I quickly noticed some expected things missing from the graphs, so I ran back through my device “Locations” and found a bunch of them either not set or not accurately set.… Read the rest
A New Toy: HP EliteDesk 800 G4 Mini PC
I just bought a thing.
It has been a refresher lesson in Intel CPUs for me, as well as a revisitation of what my financial pain threshold is. Even this ($288) is a bit above what I wanted to comfortably pay, as I need to drop more RAM into it.… Read the rest
Posted in Geek
Tagged BiL, Bored Geek, Calin, Fortress of Solitude, hermit, home assistant, HP EliteDesk 800, mini PC, Proxmox, RaspberryPi
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Let’s Encrypt V3
The Acme script that I use, like many people out there, to keep my Let’s Encrypt TLS/SSL certificate updated has recently had a breaking change of an upgrade. Namecheap, my hosting provider, is using an older version of OpenSSL. While this does not sound awesome, it is the upgrade from the previous version of OpenSSL that had a mega bug in it, so this isn’t too terrible.… Read the rest
Like Frankenstein’s Monster, Just Zap It With Electricity
Electricians are arrived at the house at about 8:00AM. Told me it’d be about four hours to install the 240-volt from the circuit breaker panel to the outdoor heat-pump. They were done a touch past 10:00AM.
I turned the Nest thermostat, which drives the oil burner, down to 58F and ran around setting the head-units to 66F.… Read the rest
Posted in Geek, Life
Tagged esp8266 esp32, Google Nest, heat-pump, Heating, home assistant, joys of marriage, mini-splits
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And the Next Day, Mini-Splits
Everything happens at once. Yesterday we took down a 75′ spruce tree, and today they started installing our ductless mini-splits.
Today, they installed the four head-units, the backer plates for the exterior channels, and the pad for the outdoor compressor. Tomorrow they install the line sets and hopefully the outdoor compressor.… Read the rest
Posted in Geek, Life
Tagged Calin, esp8266 esp32, home assistant, home improvements, Jenny, mini-splits
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Modernizing My Temperature and Humidity Sensor
My basement temperature and humidity sensor has been up and running for 2.5 years now with hardly a hiccup at all. But, it is time for an upgrade.
I’ve made some tweaks to the page over the years, but I ‘ve grown less and less happy with the matplotlib implementation.… Read the rest
Posted in Geek
Tagged Calin, cock-a-hoop, databases, Grafana, humidity, InfluxDB, Jenny, python, RaspberryPi, Remote GPIO, temperature
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Installing Unifi controller Docker container on Synology NAS – Thiago Crepaldi
Really, I used this just as a guide to update the Unifi controller in the Docker container. You could do that a time or two before it gets simple, which it is. Just a new way of doing things, I guess.… Read the rest