Home Assistant Install Home Assistant on Proxmox This post will show you how to get Home Assistant OS running as a VM on a Proxmox VE host in just a couple of minutes. 4 min read
Networking Allow ICMP Pings through the UDM-Pro's Firewall Set an Internet Local firewall rule on your UDM-Pro (or similar UniFi device) to be able to ping your IP from outside of your network. 4 min read
Networking Set Static IPs on the UDM-Pro This guide will show you how to add one or multiple static IPs to your Ubiquiti UDM-Pro (or other compatible UniFi product). 3 min read
Smart Home Review: SwitchBot Blind Tilt SwitchBot recently contacted me asking if I wanted to test their new Blind Tilt product for the purposes of a… 12 min read
Home Assistant Setup SwitchBot Blind Tilt with Home Assistant This post will show you how to add a SwitchBot Blind Tilt to Home Assistant, as well as how to fix the blind cover behaviour. 6 min read
Smart Home Getting Started with SwitchBot Blind Tilt and Hub Mini This post will take you through the process of setting up the SwitchBot Blind Tilt and how you can start controlling your devices from the cloud. 11 min read
Home Assistant Add Bluetooth Proxies to Home Assistant This guide will show you the simple steps needed to turn your ESP32 into a Bluetooth proxy ready to add Bluetooth devices to Home Assistant. 8 min read
Mastodon Mastodon v4.0.0 Upgrade [v4.0.2] What's new in Mastodon v4.0.0, and how do you upgrade? Read on for the headline features and to see how to get started with Mastodon v4.0.0. 6 min read
Cloudflare Free S3 Egress: Serve Backblaze B2 via Cloudflare In my last post, I ran through the process of setting up a Backblaze B2 (S3) bucket and getting your… 16 min read
Mastodon Using Backblaze B2 (S3) Storage with Mastodon This guide will show you how to add Mastodon content to a Backblaze B2 (S3) storage bucket, and in the process, reduce your server load! 4 min read
Ubuntu Upgrade Ubuntu to 22.04 This guide will show you how to upgrade from one version of Ubuntu to the next (20.04 to 22.04, in this example), as well as the services that will prompt for action along the way. 6 min read
Mastodon Using Vultr Object (S3) Storage with Mastodon This guide will show you how to utilise Vultr Object (S3) Storage with your Mastodon instance to save your local server resources. 3 min read