by Bram | May 20, 2018 | Blog, Home Assistant, Homeautomation, Linux
How does my Home Assistant app looks like? First of all when I started everything was in my configuration.yaml file. As I moved on i decided to split up the configuration to have a better overview and cleaner config when debugging. This is why i started using the:...
by Bram | Feb 28, 2018 | Blog, Home Assistant, Homeautomation, Linux, Raspberry Pi
I came accross Home Assistant a few days ago and it looks like a nice Home Automation system, so… Lets try! At this point i’m running several apps like Hue, IFTTT, Stringefy to make my home smarter and respond on actions or triggers. As i now came accross...
by Bram | Jan 24, 2018 | Linux, Security, XenServer
VM’s die after updating to latest kernel on XenServer Update 29 january 2018 It seems Red Hat has released a new kernel that should fix this issue. The kernel version is: kernel-2.6.32-696.20.1.el6.x86_64 I did quickly deploy an old CentOS version (6.4) on my...
by Bram | Oct 25, 2017 | Microsoft
I recently updated my Windows 10 workstation with the Fall update and after the update all seems to work fine. Except when I wanted to play some music on my system that is located on my NAS (freenas). It complained it couldnt find the file. After checking Windows...
by Bram | Jun 7, 2017 | Blog, Homeautomation, Homebridge, Homekit, Linux, Raspberry Pi
We can use Siri for a lot of things on our Apple device, but you can also use Siri to control IoT things that dont have support for HomeKit! This can be done by using SiriControl! SiriControl is a Python script that runs on your Raspberry and polls your Gmail account...
