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Two colors with a single extruder – 3D printing stylish plant labels

How can you print two colors with a single extruder? I need some with customizable plant labels and faced this issue. In the end the color change was astonishingly easy with Prusa slicer. Here is how to print such stylish plant labels. Some plants need labeling I was looking for Read more…

By Oliver, 7 days09.05.2022 ago
Software

Scan to your own private cloud – automatic upload to Nextcloud (or any other cloud)

The digital, paperless future is coming closer and closer. When I was looking to go digital I ran into one major problem: automatic upload to Nextcloud. The automatic upload from your scanner makes digital copies of your documents available everywhere – but only to you! It turns out that his Read more…

By Oliver, 5 months04.12.2021 ago
Automation

Monitoring Raspberry Pis with Home Assistant – get ahead of any failure with this simple setup

A smart home server is the heart of your setup. It needs to be running well to power everything else. Monitoring Raspberry Pis, my favorite low power server, is easy to set up and helps you to detect errors early on. This is how you can easily set up monitoring Read more…

By Oliver, 6 months15.11.2021 ago
Basics

Moving Docker data to an external SSD – a simple step-by-step guide to more stable & secure Raspberry Pi storage

Moving Docker data to an external SSD fixes a major flaw with my smart home system. Many people out there, including me, are running a small home server on a Raspberry Pi – usually running on a SD card with very limited space and a potentially very limited lifetime. Fortunately Read more…

By Oliver, 1 year11.02.2021 ago
HomeAssistant

Setting up a new smart home with Home Assistant – Part Two: Adding Zigbee and Tasmota devices

Home Assistant is an awesome free home automation system. To properly utilize it you need to add smart home devices though. This is how to add Zigbee and (Tasmota) Wifi devices to Home Assistant. I recently started working on my new smart home server and build up the hardware as Read more…

By Oliver, 1 year01.02.2021 ago
HomeAssistant

Setting up a new smart home with Home Assistant – Part One: hardware & setup

It is time! I am building a new smart home server for 2021. Home Assistant, Docker, Pi-hole & more, everything on one Raspberry Pi. Lets get ready by assembling the hardware and setting everything up. I have been running Openhabian on a Raspberry Pi 3 for years and it has Read more…

By Oliver, 1 year15.01.2021 ago
Openhab

99% CPU usage? Avoid disaster by monitoring the Raspberry Pi

Even the best smart home system does not do you much good if the controller becomes unresponsive. Mine runs on a Raspberry Pi and recently died due to a software issue. To avoid something like happening again I updated my monitoring of the Pi itself. Here is a simple way Read more…

By Oliver, 2 years12.06.2020 ago
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