Nothing is eternal, especially the relevance of documentation. I think help.ubuntu.com is an absolute winner, holding the largest number of outdated and irrelevant pages. But that's not a topic for today's post. One of my Proxmox cluster nodes can't power itself on after the outage. But it supports wake-on-LAN, so I decided that another node could power it on. And the simplicity of this task was overrated by me.
I'm not surprised people prefer Tailscale over WireGuard. Did you see the WireGuard quick start guide? Did you try to connect using this guide? Anyway, I have a VPS on Hetzner I wanted to connect to my local network through a secure tunnel. Tailscale is nice, but why set up a new infrastructure when I have one inside my UniFi Cloud Gateway Ultra?
There is a lot of automation you can do with this data, but today I want to write up a short guide on how to safely get the information from the UPS connected to your NAS via USB into the Home Assistant.
There is a UPS monitoring through NUT configured in my Home Assistant. So I decided my Home Assistant could shut down my homelab servers on a low UPS battery.
Do you want to know how and where RandomPlace is hosted? Or do you just want to know how to host a Ghost blog on your Synology NAS? I'm here today to answer both questions.
This post is from the past. From far away times when this website had another domain, another name and another hosting place. For current setup, please see HomeLab.
Still, this guide can be useful.
Quick step-by-step guide on assembling an IR receiver for reading IR codes from your remotes based on Wemos D1 mini, Wemos IR shield, and using ESPHome.
My living room multimedia setup consists of numerous devices with varying degrees of stupidity. I’m chasing to improve it adding additional DIY hardware and functionality not always because of hate of TV remotes but also because I’m in love with IoT and soldering. First, I’ve added WiFi power control to my Cambridge Audio amplifier, then I’ve implemented WiFi-to-IR remote control to the TV. Then I decided to improve sound quality from TV and added a DAC between the TV and the amplifier. It is connected to the TV via Toslink optical cable. And it broke my volume control because you can’t change the volume on a digital output port on a TV, you forced to rotate the knob on amplifier instead.
Previously I was using JBL Bar connected to a TV in my living room. It was controlled with WiFi IR bridge, so whenever my Chromecast or PS4 was in playing state, the Bar was turned on and ready.
Now I have passive speakers with a simple integrated amplifier, and it can’t be turned on or off without physical interaction. You need to press and release the button on the front panel to toggle amplifier power. So today we will add WiFi power control to Cambridge Audion AXA25 integrated amplifier.
Many modern TVs can be controlled not only with an IR remote. Many could be easily integrated with Home Assistant or any other smart home solution. Samsung smart TVs, LG with WebOS… But what if your TV is so dumb it even don’t have WiFi or Bluetooth? Today we’ll add WiFi control to an old and dumb Samsung TV with a little help from ESPHome.
Yes, it is possible and you don’t need to build anything from sources. Sending SMS from your home could be useful, for example, to send emergency alerts. But what about receiving and parsing SMS messages? Well, I used it to integrate my car security system with my Home Assistant. Now my Home Assistant could start the engine of my car automatically to warm it up before driving to work.