Running HomeAssistant on TrueNAS Scale Dec 30, 2021 What is a christmas without breaking stuff (In the last week my battery died in the car, pipe burst inside our washing machine and had central heating issues) So I though why not mess with HomeAssistant as well 😏 I have a small SuperMicro server that I have not used for a while, so I decided I wanted to try an run UnRaid on it to move my HomeAssistant from my Raspberry PI 4. ...
Using Grafana to monitor power usage on Kamstrup Power meter Apr 11, 2021 Finally got a chance to write this long overdue blog post about getting the Kamstrup meter data into InfluxDB and graphing it using Grafana. I lost the instance of HA, where I had the previous Grafana installation and all the data, so my current setup has very limited data at the moment (Something something about real men and backups :smirk:). ...
Using ESP8266 to monitor Kamstrup Omnipower May 16, 2020 (This is what I did to get it working with the Kamstrup Omnipower as a Radius customer, Danish Power Company) Over the years as the kids have gotten older, our electrical bill has just gone up and up, and I have been wondering what and when we were using all that power. ...
Loading "P0wned" password file into SQLite Sep 23, 2018 Recently I had a discussion with a friend of mine with regards to checking AD passwords against the “P0wned password list” released by Troy Hunt. So I went and downloaded the the file from here ...
Active Directory Users Password Report Jun 10, 2017 I was working with a customer; all their admin users had at least three accounts, a regular account, a domain admin account and a “server admin” account, some even had a “client admin” account as well per domain. ...
Monitoring your VM's using screenshots May 14, 2017 (This is part 1 of 3, in an articles series on how we at Unity started using “screenshots” and machine learning in our monitoring system) Part 1: Getting screenshots from VMware machines (This Post) ...
Regex CallBack Jun 9, 2016 A friend of mine had had to go through a lot of data, and substitute some values… But these weren’t 1-1 replacement, he had to find the value which was in HEX and then convert them to regular characters. ...
DSC resource downloader Jan 31, 2016 I have been playing a lot with Azure automation, and Azure DSC pullserver in particular. I will not get into DSC or Azure automation in great detail in this post. ...
Simple module dependency mapper Jan 31, 2016 Script to list module dependencies function Get-Depends { [CmdLetBinding()] Param( $ModulePath, $ModuleName, $Depth = 0, [switch]$ReturnDependency ) if ($Depth -eq 0) { $RootModulePath = $ModulePath } If ($Depth -ge 8 ) { Throw ‘Module dependency is deeper than 8 levels, possible cyclical dependency’ } try { Write-Verbose -Message $($('–' * $Depth)+$ModuleName) $ModPath = $(($(Get-ChildItem -Path “$($ModulePath)” -Filter “$ModuleName. ...
Run Azure Automation Hybrid Worker using "RunAs" Jan 5, 2016 Today I was working at a client, doing a bunch of Azure Automation stuff, moving a lot of the scheduled jobs into Azure Automation, when I noticed this little button. ...