home assistant

Full thermal emitter automation with Home Assistant and Local Tuya

I have a bunch of thermal emitters at my house and I can't turn them all on at the same, not only because of the power bill but also because I don't have that much power available. So I had to think of a way to

New homemade office desk

One more homemade work, this time an office desk. After searching for a long corner desk, I haven't found anything that could accommodate a gaming/leisure space with a working area. The objective is to have a desk that I can use to game a little, work on

Local Tuya with Home Assistant

Using Tuya powered devices is great and all, but if you are out of internet connection it would be impossible to update them using your local network connection. And this is where Local Tuya comes into place. Local Tuya gives you the possibility to handle a your Tuya Smart Devices

homelab

Heimdall Application Dashboard

With a bunch of different applications running on a local network, it's can be difficult to track all the IP/Domain for each of them. Because of that, I've been using an application dashboard called Heimdall. With a very simple setup and an intuitive usage, it

home assistant

Garage door Home Assistant

I have an automatic garage door from Doorgate that can be controlled with a RF control or a local push button on the wall and ai wanted to be able to connect it to Home Assistant and be able to open and close the door from there. The problem There

selfhost

Selfhost with Namecheap dynamic dns

On this post I'll talk about how you can use a service like Namecheap to buy your domain and also keep that domain in sync with your IP address assigned by your ISP (internet service provider). This is something that affects me directly since I don't

nextcloud

Running Nextcloud with PHP 8.1 under Proxmox LXC

On this post we will run Nextcloud inside Proxmox using the debian-11-turnkey-nextcloud LXC template, after that we will update Nextcloud and PHP to the latest possible versions. Download the CT Template First of all we need to download the right LXC template and then create a container, for that, lest

testdisk

HDD file recovery with TestDisk under Linux

Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) are an essential part of most computer systems. They store vast amounts of important data, ranging from personal photos and videos to critical business documents and financial records. However, due to various reasons, HDDs can suffer from data loss. This can be caused by anything from

linux

Linux Gaming with Nobara OS

I've been using Nobara OS for already 4 months, doing mainly frontend web development, office work (spreadsheet and text documents) and gaming. Regarding the gaming part, the system comes already pre-packed with a lot of kernel patches and applications, making it simple to start gaming and enjoying the

network

Creating a new network inside my ISP network

In order to increase my network security and hide my services from my ISP, i created a new network inside my ISP network.

home assistant

Shelly Plus 2PM Roller Shutter with Home Assistant

On the trip to automate my home i wanted manage my roller shutters with a Shelly through Home Assistant.

esp32

ESP32 + humidity sensor using ESPHome

In the process of making my home a little bit smarter, i recently read about the ESP32 + DHT22 humidity sensor using the firmware from ESPHome that can be used inside Home Assistant, and wanted to try it out.

home assistant

Orbegozo with Home Assistant through Tuya Smart app

I just acquired some Orbegozo heat emitter and i was checking on how to connect them to my Home Assistant instance.

docker

Adeus plugins do TrueNAS Core, olá Docker Containers

Passei todos os plugins que tinha no TrueNAS Core para uma VM Debian a correr o Portainer e Docker. Porquê? Eu explico.

life

Primeiro emprego como developer de Frontend

Tirar um curso online, presencial, universitário, profissional, etc, é bom, mas não chega.

watchtower

Manter os containers actualizados com Watchtower

Watchtower é um container que automatiza a actualização de Docker containers.

homelab

Gestão de serviços em casa

Com o evoluir do homelab e a criação de mais serviços internos, começa a ser difícil manter tudo organizado e esta é a solução a que eu cheguei.

pivpn

Acesso à rede interna com PiVPN/WireGuard

Existem alguns serviços que eu quero ter acesso através de uma rede externa, como o Nextcloud, Bitwarden e Plex, no entanto, tenho outras coisas a correr na minha rede interna que não quero expor para a rede externa mas por vezes preciso de acesso para poder fazer algum tipo de manutenção.

monitorization

Monitorizar com o Uptime Kuma

Numa minha publicação anterior eu falei sobre o Observium, um excelente sistema de monitorização para ter na nossa rede, no entanto, poderá não ser o mais indicado para ter um overview rápido e um sistema de alertas do estado dos nossos serviços.

linux

Dual Disk / Dual Boot

Eu uso o Linux como o meu sistema operativo principal, mas infelizmente, jogar no Linux é algo que ainda não é para os dias de hoje. Como gosto de ter as coisas separadas, e gosto de poder formatar o meu disco sem ter receio de perder ou estragar qualquer coisa,

observium

Observium Raspberry Ramdisk

Passaram-se alguns dias desde que tenho o Observium a correr juntamente com o Pi-hole e mesmo depois dos tweaks, ainda estava a ter alguns momentos em que o Raspberry ficava extremamente lento.

observium

Observium RPi3

Ter os nossos próprios serviços é giro e tal mas eles também precisam de manutenção e monitorização.

docker

Docker-OSX

Enviaram-me um link para correr o MacOS dentro do Linux/Windows e tive de experimentar. Tudo começa com um simples comando.