Staying updated when it comes to any part of your life is always crucial, but even more so when it comes to your homelab. That’s why I decided to try and find a more lightweight and faster solution, then my current clunky SMTP setup, which tended to end up with me getting huge volumes of email every time something went down. Enter ntfy.sh - a simple notification system powered by HTTP Requests and topics ...
It’s nice to keep a link in my Instagram bio that links to some of the stuff I work on, just in case anyone wanted to take a look. Previously, I’d just include a link to my GitHub, but recently, with my new website and this blog, I’d like other things to be accessible there. In this case you’d normally use a cloud-hosted link in bio solution, of which there are many of. But what’s the fun in that? How about we self-host one instead. ...
All the images on my blog need a place to live, and while I could just serve it on the blog itself, some of my other projects need locations for files to live - and serving it on them natively just isn’t a viable option. Images and the like are also more heavier then text, and so it can often be beneficial to load them from a more local server. ...
Modularity always helps when it comes to the maintenance of complex systems, and so it should help when it comes to managing Home Assistant. A while back, I stumbled across Frenck’s GitHub profile, where he was showcasing his Home Assistant config - https://github.com/frenck/home-assistant-config. I found the idea of splitting each entry into it’s own dedicated file, rather then having one huge config file, much more intuitive and easier to manage. Setup Navigate to your data folder 03:43:35 vivaan@ultimate ~ → cd /clstr/homeassistant/data Create a new integrations folder This will be where all the entries for Home Assistant’s config will be stored. ...
In order to fully utilise the UniFi APs full feature set, you’ll need to have a UniFi controller of some sort. This can be a UniFi Cloud Key, a UniFi Cloud Gateway, or… you can host one yourself. So obviously, I chose the third option. There are two methods for installing the controller. One is on Docker, or you can use a Bare-Metal install. I’ll go through both, but I personally use the Docker setup. ...
Passwords are one of the most important aspects of our digital lives nowadays, making the password manager of your choice one of the most important tools you use. I was using Bitwarden, until I decided that I’m gonna take a little risk and self-host my password manager. Enter: Vaultwarden - an unofficial rewrite of the Bitwarden server. Brief Introductions For the uninitiated, Bitwarden is an incredibly powerful password manager, with many feature, and a pretty intuitive UI. However, a few of it’s major painpoints revolved around a few of it’s features being locked behind a paywall. It’s not that I needed those features, they were just a nice to have - take organisations for an example. I like to follow a similar idea to Zero-Trust Architectures, in which all devices only are able to access the resources they need. One way I could achieve this with Bitwarden is having all my Personal devices use one account, and all my School devices use another. ...