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Retrofitting the existing home with smart home functions is easier than ever today. However, due to the multitude of standards and available software...
Docker: what is it? Docker allows certain services or services to be launched as containers. A container consists of certain software packages that ca...
Understanding, analyzing or expanding your own network: Basics for the home network.
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Without proper tools, it is difficult to use complex and unique passwords on all websites, which lowers the security of accounts and thus one's data....
If you often work with Remote Desktop on a remote server, you may find that you need to change the password of the user you are using. If a different...
Bitwarden is a web-based password manager, similar to LastPass, but open source and the ability to run (host) it yourself. How Bitwarden compares to o...
In the article “How do you manage your passwords?” I described some thoughts on how to handle passwords securely. One possible solution to make the ha...
An InfluxDB database is a database optimized for time data. For visualization InfluxDB is often used in combination with Grafana. Note: This article r...
Home Assistant uses SQLite as a database. In SQLite all data is stored in a simple file: home-assistant_v2.db. I had no problems with the database so...
As an extension for my home network, I tested the Raspberry PI 3 as a WLAN access point. Due to the integrated WLAN chip, the minicomputer can easily...
Grafana is a web application for visualizing data. With Grafana you can create nice charts or define alarms in a few minutes. Docker Basics Docker...
For collecting system data from other operating systems, HomeAssistant offers Glances integration, among other things. Glances is a terminal program...
With ioBroker different automation solutions or devices can be combined in one system. To address specific gateways or devices, different adapters are...
When I bought my first Raspberry, the first thing I did was to install and run an OpenElec Media-Center image: works, faster and easier than expected....
To find out which devices are currently connected to your WLAN, they can be displayed via the router or a network scan. Via the router The connection...
How to turn off or reboot the popular Linux versions: If you ever get lost on the Linux console of a server, PC, tablet, TV, media player, radio, rou...
With the small USB stick Conbee2 I extended my NAS with a Zigbee gateway. Conbee2 can be installed on Raspbian, Ubuntu, Docker or Windows. Conbee 2: w...
Zigbee2MQTT is an open source Zigbee bridge which can be easily integrated into existing smart home solutions thanks to the MQTT network protocol. As...
MQTT (Message Queuing Telemetry Transport) is an open network protocol for transmitting messages between devices. An MQTT broker, like the open source...
Since GitLab requires a relatively large amount of memory and CPU, and is also relatively slow on my NAS, I replaced GitLab with Gitea . Gitea offers...
If you want to host your Git repositories yourself, GitLab is an alternative to GitHub. GitLab offers a convenient web interface for managing, editing...
The latest Ubuntu version can be downloaded from the manufacturer's website: www.ubuntu.com/ The setup DVD is not only suitable for installing, it ca...
Scheduled tasks can be started in Linux using crontab. To set up the tasks, use the crontab -e command in the terminal. Format of the crontab entries...
To synchronize contacts, appointments, and photos of my NAS, I tested Nextcloud and thus turned my back on other cloud providers for my private data....
Docker containers can be started, updated and managed using terminal commands. In the post I note commands that I have needed so far for Docker and co...
If there are several WLAN networks in the vicinity, they may influence each other. For maximum speed and stability, your own WLAN should preferably us...
With the help of a suitable Docker image, it is relatively easy to run a mail server yourself. I originally used the integrated mail server of the Hos...
Ready-made Docker containers are available for almost all known web systems, or they can be created relatively easily or existing containers can be ad...