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HASS On Unraid: MariaDB

HASS On Unraid: MariaDB

In this post I will cover configuring Home Assistant to use MariaDB rather than the default SQLite DB, you can refer to this post for instructions on how to set up MariaDB on Ubuntu. 💡This post is part of a series, if you like it you should check the others

HASS On Unraid: Installation

HASS On Unraid: Installation

This post covers installing Home Assistant on Unraid as a virtual machine making use of the .qcow2 image. 💡This post is part of a series, if you like it you should check the others out. Download the VM Image First you will need to obtain the latest image from the

Home Assistant (HASS) On Unraid From Scratch

Home Assistant (HASS) On Unraid From Scratch

In this series of posts I will cover the process taken to get Home Assistant running on my home Unraid server. 💡In my setup I am making use of the KVM installation variant. * Setup and VM deployment - covers the initial setup * Setting up MariaDB - covers switching over to

Running RabbitMQ on Unraid

Running RabbitMQ on Unraid

This is a quick post on getting RabbitMQ up and running in a Docker container on Unraid, this post is based on the official docker image. Configuration Repository Tag Personally I prefer using the built-in management plugin, so I opt for this tag: * Repository: rabbitmq:3-management Ports You will need

Portainer Cheat Sheet

Portainer Cheat Sheet

Below is a quick cheat sheet for getting up and running with Portainer, generally I make use of Unraid for running my Docker containers however when it comes to running Z-Wave JS I needed to run it on another computer that had a free USB port :) Starting the container sudo

Running Satisfactory Dedicated Server

Running Satisfactory Dedicated Server

With the release of Satisfactory Update 5 comes the addition of dedicated servers, something interesting on the official wiki something interesting caught my eye - the ability to run the server as a Docker Container which is amazing! 💡TL;DR: you can make use of the niemandr/satisfactory-server Docker container

Running Home Assistant On Unraid

Running Home Assistant On Unraid

I have been running Home Assistant for years, and absolutely love it. By far the easiest way to run Home Assistant is using the official Home Assistant Operating System, specifically the .qcow2 image paired with my local Unraid server. As there are literally thousands of posts out there covering the

Updating Pi-hole

Updating Pi-hole

This is a quick reference post on updating your local Pi-hole installation, the process can be completed in 3 simple steps: 1) SSH into your Pi ssh pi@192.168.0.5 2) Check for updates pihole -v 3) Run the update pihole -up

Installing MQTT on Ubuntu

Installing MQTT on Ubuntu

Today I am going to be covering installing and configuring mosquitto (a pretty common MQTT client) on Ubuntu. I make use of MQTT a lot when it comes to my home automation as it's a lightweight protocol that can easily run on devices with limited memory (like an ESP8266). Installation

Adding Angular Material (ASP.Net Core - Angular 8.x)

Adding Angular Material (ASP.Net Core - Angular 8.x)

In this post I am going to cover installing and configuring Angular Material, basically I will be following the Getting Started guide linked earlier. Let's dive in. Step 1: Installing base packages The first thing we are going to want to do, is to install Angular Material, Angular CDK and

ASP.Net Core (Web API) with Angular 8.x Bootstrap

ASP.Net Core (Web API) with Angular 8.x Bootstrap

Lately I have been building a lot of POC web-apps for my day job and find myself repeating the following steps over and over: * Create a new ASP.NET Core Web Application * Add in the relevant .gitignore file * Upgrade Angular to the latest stable version * Add in Angular Material for

Creating the base project (ASP.Net Core - Angular 8.x)

Creating the base project (ASP.Net Core - Angular 8.x)

Let's jump right in with building our ASP.Net Core - Angular 8.x Visual Studio template. Prerequisites I am working off the assumption that the following conditions are met on your development machine: * Visual Studio 2019 (or later) is installed * Node.js is installed and configured correctly * TypeScript is

Installing Webmin on Ubuntu

Installing Webmin on Ubuntu

💡This post is part of a series [http://richardn.ca/home-servers-revamp-a-quick-update/] where I cover setting up my home server from the ground up.Today I will be covering installing Webmin [http://www.webmin.com/] on Ubuntu (and Ubuntu Server), in case you are unaware of it (I was initially) here

Backing up MariaDB (MySQL) via CRON

Backing up MariaDB (MySQL) via CRON

💡This post is part of a series [http://richardn.ca/home-servers-revamp-a-quick-update/] where I cover setting up my home server from the ground up.Once you have your MariaDB (MySQL) instance [http://richardn.ca/2019/06/15/installing-mariadb-mysql-on-ubuntu/] up and running, it would be a good idea to automate backing up

Installing Node-RED on Ubuntu

Installing Node-RED on Ubuntu

💡This post is part of a series [http://richardn.ca/home-servers-revamp-a-quick-update/] where I cover setting up my home server from the ground up.Today I will be covering getting up and running with Node-RED [https://nodered.org/] on your server. This process is slightly more involved compared to all the

Installing Grafana on Ubuntu

Installing Grafana on Ubuntu

💡This post is part of a series [http://richardn.ca/home-servers-revamp-a-quick-update/] where I cover setting up my home server from the ground up.Once you have a running instance of InfluxDB [http://richardn.ca/2019/06/14/installing-influxdb-on-ubuntu-2/] being populated with that sweet, sweet Telegraf [http://richardn.ca/2019/06/

Installing Chronograf on Ubuntu

Installing Chronograf on Ubuntu

💡This post is part of a series [http://richardn.ca/home-servers-revamp-a-quick-update/] where I cover setting up my home server from the ground up.Today I will be covering getting Chronograf [https://www.influxdata.com/time-series-platform/chronograf/] up and running on Ubuntu. Installation Note: You will need to have a working

Installing Telegraf on Ubuntu

Installing Telegraf on Ubuntu

💡This post is part of a series [http://richardn.ca/home-servers-revamp-a-quick-update/] where I cover setting up my home server from the ground up.Telegraf [https://www.influxdata.com/time-series-platform/telegraf/] is the open source server agent to help you collect metrics from your stacks, sensors and systems. Following the steps

Installing MariaDB (MySQL) on Ubuntu

Installing MariaDB (MySQL) on Ubuntu

💡This post is part of a series [http://richardn.ca/home-servers-revamp-a-quick-update/] where I cover setting up my home server from the ground up.This post covers the basics of installing MariaDB [https://mariadb.org/] (an alternative to MySQL) on Ubuntu Server in an hopefully easy to follow format. I have

Installing InfluxDB on Ubuntu

Installing InfluxDB on Ubuntu

💡This post is part of a series [http://richardn.ca/home-servers-revamp-a-quick-update/] where I cover setting up my home server from the ground up.This is a brief guide to get InfluxDB [https://www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview/] up and running on Ubuntu Server, you can refer to the official documentation

Setting Static IP Address (Ubuntu)

Setting Static IP Address (Ubuntu)

💡This post is part of a series [http://richardn.ca/home-servers-revamp-a-quick-update/] where I cover setting up my home server from the ground up.Most of the information in this post is a simplified version of the following guide [https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/network-configuration.html.en]. Basically you can

Setting Date and Time (Ubuntu)

Setting Date and Time (Ubuntu)

💡This post is part of a series [http://richardn.ca/home-servers-revamp-a-quick-update/] where I cover setting up my home server from the ground up.The first thing I do with any new system installation is ensure that the correct date, time and time zone is configured. I ran into an issue

Home Servers Revamp (a Quick Update)

Home Servers Revamp (a Quick Update)

I have been needing to rebuild some of the core components of my Home Automation stack for quite some time now, but have been struggling to find the time to do it. I have also been wanting to try committing to running everything on Linux (where possible) as I am

Collecting Sonoff Pow data in Home Assistant

Collecting Sonoff Pow data in Home Assistant

This post covers the process of collecting performance data from most Sonoff devices, in this instance I will be working with my Sonoff Pow R2 [https://bit.ly/2FTK7r9]. Requirements To follow along you will need the following: * an MQTT server - some setup posts here [http://richardn.ca/tag/

Installing Telegraf on DietPi - Debian ARM edition (revised)

Installing Telegraf on DietPi - Debian ARM edition (revised)

Today I would like to cover getting up and running with Telegraf [https://www.influxdata.com/time-series-platform/telegraf/] on my SBC computers, namely most arm/arm64 based Debian distros. This will be a brief post just covering the commands \ "hacks" used to get it all sorted. Uninstalling (Optional) I had