Home Assistant Yellow: 5 Months Later
My review of the Home Assistant Yellow 5 having used it for 5 months.
Building helpful contextual chat bots is easy using OpenAI's Assistants (part 1)
Today, I'm going to show how I used OpenAI GPT-4 and OpenAI Assistants to build a bot that answers questions around DigitalOcean's documentation.
Automating Docker image updates in a Home Lab
In this post I explain how to introduce Renovate into your docker-compose setup, this allows us to pin docker image versions in our docker-compose but also declare them as dependencies that Renovate will raise pull requests for when a new image is published.
Running Rook / Ceph on DigitalOcean DOKS (Managed Kubernetes)
In this guide we will deploy a Rook / Ceph cluster and give some working examples of consuming RWO Block and RWX Filesystem storage.
DigitalOcean, Kubernetes (DOKS) and Netmaker
Netmaker is a platform for creating fast and secure virtual networks with WireGuard.
How to deploy Ghost on DigitalOcean App Platform
Today we will look at deploying Ghost on DigitalOcean App Platform.
Home Assistant / Google Assistant local connectivity
Historically if you integrated Google Assistant with Home Assistant every time you asked "Hey Google, switch the light off" your Google device would do this:
"Hey Google" > Google Cloud > Public Internet > Home Assistant
Automatically decrypting, unlocking and mounting an Unraid array at boot
Unraid is my favourite NAS OS to run at home. It’s super easy to get setup and administer.
Adding a LSI 9211-8i to a HP MicroServer gen8 & flashing IT mode in 2022
I recently installed a LSI 9211-8i HBA into my HP MicroServer gen8 as a replacement for a PCI-e M2 SSD adapter that kept putting my filesystem into read-only mode.
Have a lightning fast blog and host it for free using Github Actions and Cloudflare Workers
There are so many ways to build and host a blog for free nowadays. In 2020 I am using Hugo, Github Actions and Cloudflare Workers Sites.
Replacing 'ring ring' with the Jurassic Park theme song using a PBX
Today I learnt something new. The ‘ring ring’ you hear when you make a phone call isn’t generated by your phone, your network or even the country you’re in, that noise is generated by the receiving ends phone system, and this means it can be customized.
Making Wireguard VPN work with EE 4G in the UK
For the past couple of months I have been running a permanent VPN on my iPhone.
Sky Broadband - Transparent DNS proxy
Unfortunately this means they now proxy all your DNS traffic using a transparent DNS proxy, regardless of what DNS resolver you have set on your client.
IPv6 over IPv4 at home, today
In this article I explain how to enable IPv6 connectivity from any desktop in less than 5 minutes.