Most instructions you'll find online document how to integrate MiFlora plant sensors through Home Assistant's ESPHome integration. Home Assistant natively supports MiFlora devices, though, through the Xiaomi BLE integration, where Home Assistant registers the values the sensor broadcasts over Bluetooth, and only occasionally polls the sensor for the battery status …
Read MoreIn some scenarios, you'd rather not have some operations run with elevated privileges. ZFS send/receive typically requires root privileges, but you can grant the necessary privileges to regular, unprivileged users through zfs allow (see the man page).
The privilege set for the sending user is rather limited …
Read MoreSetting up a VLAN with networkd is unfortunately not as straightforward as with Debian's ifupdown framework, where you can just append the VLAN to the interface name. Networkd has a more complex approach that boils down to this:
.netdev file.The Odroid XU4 is a SBC designed by the Korean company Hardkernel. The heart of the SBC is the Samsung Exynos 5422 SoC, an octacore SoC based on the big.LITTLE concept. The four performance cores are ARM A15 cores (max. 2 GHz), whereas the four efficiency cores are A7 …
Read MoreWith my brother's new office taking shape, he wanted a more reliable and rack mountable solution for his centralised storage. We went with the Asrock Rack 1U4LW-X570/2L2T RPSU 1U server. While this may seem like overkill for centralised SMB storage, his previous home office server suffered from instability that …
Read MoreThis posts covers the implementation of an isolated WireGuard instance through the use of Linux network namespaces. The Linux kernel supports network namespaces more or less fully since kernel 2.6.29. They allow you to isolate network system resources - a separate network stack running independently from (and next to …
Read MoreJust like with any battery powered device (a Tesla, or your smartphone), it's the last stretch to a 100% full charge that taxes the battery the most. You might have noticed charging on modern smartphones and laptops goes pretty fast, until you start hitting the upper percentiles (80%, 90%) - then …
Read MoreI let Gnome Keyring handle my SSH and GPG keys; so far this has worked just fine and it hasn't gotten in the way. However, recently I switched to Wayland and I noticed Keychain wasn't picking up the SSH agent anymore, so my scripts relying on the cached SSH keys …
Read MorePass is a password manager adhering to the KISS Unix philosophy. It builds on existing tools (GnuPG and git e.g.) and stores your password as simple GPG encrypted files in its tree. There are multiple clients and extensions available and it allows you to manage your passwords transparently. The …
Read MoreWireGuard is a modern VPN solution that has been getting a lot of attention recently, even earning accolades from Linus Torvalds himself. The developer's website states the following about WireGuard:
Read More[...] an extremely simple yet fast and modern VPN that utilizes state-of-the-art cryptography. It aims to be faster, simpler, leaner, and …
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