Getting kids to do chores is always a battle. Here’s a way I incorporated chore tracking in Home Assistant that was also designed to motivate them.
Aside from my monthly utility bill, understanding my home’s energy consumption has always been fairly opaque. Setting up energy monitoring in Home Assistant has brought real-time insight.
While network diagrams are essential in a corporate setting, outside of that context they are often unknown or under appreciated. If you have a connected home or self hosted environment creating one may be worth your while.
Once you start down the home automation rabbit hole path, you’ll find a seemingly ever expanding set of automation opportunities. So if your are looking for ideas or just curious to see what is possible, here’s a list with the how-to details on a few of the more useful automations I have done around my home.
Getting started with Traefik 2 can be a handful (…even if you are migrating from v1). It’s high configurability, an element that makes Traefik a truly powerful reverse proxy, also makes comparability across setup guides difficult. And since no two systems are seldom alike, multiple guides often need referencing to complete a setup. The process is supposed to be easy, it’s certainly billed as such….
