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Basics

Is the Raspberry Pi 4 powerful enough for Home Assistant and your smart home server?

The Raspberry Pis are very popular mini computers with a (usually) cheap price and small form factor and power consumption used for many tasks. Is the Pi 4 good enough as a smart home server for Home Assistant? I have been using it for more than a year now and Read more…

By Oliver, 1 week ago
Software

Embracing AI for a better workflow? Migrating my DMS from Teedy to Paperless-ngx

Efficiency and organization are crucial to me, especially when it comes to work. That’s why I have been using a reliable document management system to sort through my digital files for some time. For a while, I used Teedy, a self-hosted DMS, to manage my personal documents. While Teedy was Read more…

By Oliver, 2 months02.04.2023 ago
Software

Privacy, Control & all the Features: Self-Hosting Firefox Sync is the Way to Go

Firefox Sync is a powerful tool that allows you to synchronize your bookmarks, browsing history, and other data across multiple devices. While the default option is to use Mozilla’s own servers to store this information, self-hosting gives you greater control over your data and privacy, while still offering a seamless Read more…

By Oliver, 3 months18.03.2023 ago
HomeAssistant

Switching Zigbee coordinators with ZHA & Home Assistant without re-pairing & testing the TubesZB coordinator

The stability of your Zigbee network is largely determined by the performance of your coordinator (or router). Switching Zigbee coordinators to a new and better one used to require you to repair all your devices though. With Home Assistant 2022.9 that is a thing of the past. In this post Read more…

By Oliver, 7 months30.10.2022 ago
Software

Fixing Docker stats and Cadvisor CPU usage (on a Raspberry Pi)

Prometheus works great for collecting server stats on a Raspberry Pi but was missing some information on a Raspberry Pi in docker stats and the cadvisor used more CPU than the containers it was monitoring. Here is how fixed those issues. Cleaning up & fixing the downloaded dashboards When I Read more…

By Oliver, 10 months01.08.2022 ago
Software

Monitoring your smart home server with prometheus on a Raspberry Pi – use the power of professional tools

To analyze errors or just to watch what is happening: your smart home gets so much better with some proper monitoring. Prometheus + Grafana is one of THE solutions for monitoring pretty much anything. Getting it to run on a Raspberry Pi does not need much time but still can Read more…

By Oliver, 10 months25.07.2022 ago
HomeAssistant

How to use Zigbee2MQTT with Home Assistant – A quick start guide

Open source software like Zigbee2MQTT and Home Assistant are a great alternative to (more or less) closed systems like Philips Hue. It can be tricky to get started though. Here is a quick start guide allowing you to use all the advantages like full offline control and the possibility to Read more…

By Oliver, 11 months19.07.2022 ago
Basics

Stopping the annoying flood of errors from InfluxDB

InfluxDB (1.8) is a great database but it logs every web access as an error by default. This creates a lot of error entries in a log aggregation tool like Loki. There is a simple fix though. Loki & log aggregation Loki is a great tool to aggregate logs from Read more…

By Oliver, 11 months27.06.2022 ago
Basics

Taming Loki’s hunger – reclaiming disk space used by limiting the Loki log size (for the docker plugin)

The Grafana Loki logging aggregator is a great tool to collect logs from lots of places (Docker containers) in one place. Loki log size can unfortunately grow quite big though with the default settings. When my Raspberry Pis SD card was nearly full I looked for some ways to combat Read more…

By Oliver, 12 months15.06.2022 ago
HomeAssistant

Simple Home Assistant configuration backup to the cloud with Docker

If you run the supervisor version of Home Assistant (or Home Assistant OS) a backup solution is built-in. If you prefer the more flexible installation via Docker there is no such solution. Here is how to keep regular backups of your Home Assistant configuration when running it in Docker. Running Read more…

By Oliver, 1 year04.04.2022 ago

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