Creating the awesomeness
At school, we use Parro for digital communications. It’s better that multiple whatsapp/signal groups, emails and other forms of communication. But at home we have one issue, I do not read Parro every hour to get informed about the latest updates.I do have a MagicMirror instance in my enterance, so one and one makes this ... Read more
I’m currently reverse-engineering and keeping some progress for a Home Assistant / HACS integration that can show a Tracefy bike location on the map. Goal The goal is to build a HACS-compatible Home Assistant integration for Tracefy bike tracking. The first integration scaffold exposes a device_tracker entity with these properties: The first version used manually configured coordinates. ... Read…
So okay, I have this angular 21 project that gives an error, well error, warning. The other day I also encountered this in another project. Time to dive in and see what this is about.I have found this blog, Problems Importing Bootstrap into SCSS with @use Instead of @import: Extending Responsive Breakpoints & Variable Conflicts ... Read more
I have now multiple organizations in Azure DevOps that all have their own agent. This agent is used to build, test and release my projects. So the next option came to mind, build a virtual machine on my Unraid installation, with Ubuntu. Create multiple users in Ubuntu that all run their own agent that connects ... Read more
I have this MacBook Pro 16″ 2019 over here.It has like 1TB disk and 32 gig of RAM First, I’ll freshly install macOS itself, it is stating that it wants to install Catalina After setting it up, it (of course) wanted to update Following many of the online guides, the Ubuntu installation had to be ... Read more
I wanted to have a network at home that is dedicated to an always connected VPN environment. For this I picked PIA as they offer port forward (well… I’ve been told…) First I setup the VPN Client on my UniFi device Next, I’ve created a new VLAN I have a large Unraid tower at home. ... Read more
Tja… there is another project. I want the supermarkt points to be captured and tracked by home assistant.The supermarkt is called PLUS, it is a Dutch supermarkt that sells bonus points (plus zegels) that you can later use to pay for products. The technical difficulties:– There is no website that has the information of points ... Read more
What I want (all the red on one VM) Tja…. the docker version didn’t workI got stuck at the fleet configuration So now, lets try to install everything on aVM, in this case, an Ubuntu server installation Okay, it is in a separate vlan, but I can SSH to the machine after setting some unifi ... Read more
One company I freelance for, have installed ElasticSearch, and they ‘harvest’ Windows clients information. I want this at home as well. In this post I’ll blog about the installation steps taken. Installation on unraid environment The ElasticSearch documentation has a section for docker. https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/8.17/docker.htmlBut its docker commands, and I want some…
I have an unraid server and an active subscription at TransIP stack. Stack offers a WebDAV drive to backup your stuff.This post shows the steps to complete this task. 2. Overview of the active users 3. Create an access token as I dont want to supply my password later on 4. Setup docker container efrecon/webdav-client ... Read more
On beneluxlaan.com I used to have a nice website, but is down for quite some while.Now that I have an extra server at home, lets host the website there, repair it, and use cloudflare to tunnel the traffic to the site itself. In order to setup cloudflare, I added the beneluxlaan.com domain: In order to ... Read more
I wanted to use the Innr SP240 to get insights of the car chargers usage. This I want to accomplish with the help of my home assistant setup that is already in place. Setup Home Assistant Adding the Innr SP240 is not that hard, when it is added to the Zigbee environment, this is the ... Read more
My 2023 and 2024 SANS course experiences
I do hate this, scrollbars and borders around my webpage.As I have a webpage that is adding every post at the bottom, the height is dynamic, i.e. is not every time an x amount of pixels. In order to remove some things, I turned myself into google. There are doznes of solutions, some work, some ... Read more
What is it? Given the following situation, I have a website and want to get some analytics. One could choose to use Google Analytics, but this means giving all your data to a company. One of many options is to use Matomo, Matomo is a powerful privacy-first web analytics platform that gives you 100% data ... Read more
For a while I was looking for a way to track my car’s whereabouts (nice word!) In order to do so, I started by looking how to have a server environment ready to capture and display this information, as it was clear I didn’t want to create a serverside solution by myself for this. Searching ... Read more
import { Component, OnInit } from '@angular/core'; import { UserDashboardService, UserDTO } from 'src/api'; import { NotificationService } from 'src/app/notification.service'; @Component({ selector: 'app-user-dashboard', templateUrl: './user-dashboard.component.pug', styleUrls: ['./user-dashboard.component.scss'] }) export class UserDashboardComponent implements OnInit { user: UserDTO;…
What is it? I wanted to check a website if a change was made. Why?Renting a simple space is hard in the Netherlands, as there are many sites that offer appartments / houses / garages, I wanted one.After a while I found a company responsible for renting out storage spaces and garages. They told me ... Read more
What is it? Structured logging is the practice of implementing a consistent, predetermined message format for application logs that allows them to be treated as data sets rather than text. (https://www.sumologic.com/glossary/structured-logging/) I wanted to have a good, like really good, but free, system to move my logs to. Over the years, I have used PM2, ... Read more
What is it? For a couple of years I have a dual screen setup haning in my (very full) enterance. It ran two screens with two separate Raspbarry PI’s.Over the years the PI’s got some upgrades, but I found it time to install the latest Raspberry PI 4, so I can use both screens with ... Read more