“Sheldon, if you were a robot, and I knew and you didn’t, would you want me to tell you?” – Howard Wolowitz. As you’d see from many of the other blog posts, I spend more time than I should thinking about home automation. I put a new smart lock in recently, and as often is […]
“Since when is eggnog a Christmas drink? Eggs are available all year ’round. I’ve been known to enjoy this poolside.” – Sheldon Cooper. Ever since I’ve had a Blueriiot Blue Connect Plus for my swimming pool, I’ve been pulling the data into Home Assistant. Originally it was with an IFTTT interface – but that has […]
I’ve been using the Portainer add-on from the Home Assistant add-on repository for quite a while now, and using it to manage several docker hosts. I recently went to add a few Kubernetes clusters as endpoints for Portainer only to realise that the add-on was Portainer 1.x instead of 2.x (which doesn’t support Kubernetes). It […]
“I know why you’re here, Neo” – Trinity. It looks like Actron have brought out another air conditioner control system – the Neo. It seems to be similar to the Que, although owning neither – I’m not entirely sure. The API definition certainly looks similar between them – similar, not identical. I’ve started adapting the […]
I’ve recently started looking at Instana, who make an Enterprise Observability Platform for APM, Web Site, Cloud & Infrastructure, and Microservices monitoring. This is something that’s been of interest to me for quite a while being a developer. In every conversation I have regarding monitoring, it’s always been about instrumentation – making sure the right […]
Leonard: At least I didn’t have to invent 26 dimensions just to make the math come out.Sheldon: I didn’t invent them, they are there!Leonard: In what universe?Sheldon: In all of them, that’s the point. Sheldon Cooper, Leonard Hofstadter I always liked that exchange in the Big Bang Theory. Still a great show. Anyway. There’s been […]
This post covers two topics – how to perform DNS over HTTPS lookups in NET Core, and how to force the HttpClient to bypass its internal DNS resolution process. Why….? There’s a couple of applications that I’ve written, primarily for home automation, where I’ve needed to intercept traffic from an IoT device – an air […]
I’ve been using the Deta Grid Connect 1 and 2 gang light switches with Home Assistant for about 6 months now – as mentioned in this post. The 3 and 4 gang switches have finally arrived, and having picked one up from Bunnings, I was keen to get it setup and the firmware replaced with […]
Howard: “So, you think I’m one of the smarter kids?” Sheldon: “No, you’re a tool I was using to make my point.” There’s a basic utility container/tool kit that I’ve used in the past when troubleshooting in a Kubernetes or docker environment which is based on Ubuntu. The Dockerfile is available here if you’d like […]
I recently started work on my second add-on for Home Assistant. Unfortunately, that meant a lot more time with the Home Assistant add-on builder. I’d been finding that using the add-on builder was often taking an hour to build the container based add-on, for the four platforms for which I build (e.g. i386, amd64, armv7..). […]
Hopefully Helpful Hints // Mike J McGuire 