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.
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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:).
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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.
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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
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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.
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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)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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