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As the dusk settled outside my window, I found myself immersed in a digital realm of possibilities, tinkering away at my smart home setup. However, in a cruel twist of fate fueled by overconfidence, disaster struck. With a single keystroke, I inadvertently obliterated my Home Assistant VM from the sanctum of my ESXi server. As …

The Journey of Redemption: Rebuilding my Smart Home Infrastructure with Kubernetes Read More »

In the twisted realm of my life’s journey, I recently found myself forcibly unshackled from the bonds of employment. A dubious liberation, to be sure, but one that has granted me the most precious of all commodities: time. Time to descend into the cavernous depths of my lab projects, a realm where curiosity dances hand …

migrating from vm to kubernetes Read More »

Some days ago my wife brought planting soil with seeds of some kind and said: “wouldn’t that be nice if you and the boys plant these?” I thought to myself “ohhh yeah that could be nice… but it would be much nicer if I’ll document the plant growth and make a time lapse clip… in …

Day and Night Time Lapse with RaspberryPI Read More »

This one is for those who would like to start using the Grafana alerting to recieve notifications by Email. we will connect Grafana plugin to GMAIL account, that will allow to send emails with alerts. Before I start (and SEC nerds will loose their minds) I will say that it is better to use !secret …

Enable Grafana Alerting Read More »

I decided view my temperature sensors via Home Assistant, So I have installed a Grafana plugin on HA, configured data sources, created a dashboard and VIOLLA!! it works, I’m seeing a graph with all the data from my DS18B20 temperature sensors (I got 3 of them). Then I decided to display it in a card …

Grafana tab on Home Assistant throws “401 Unauthorized” Error Read More »