Home Assistant

Integrating Zigbee2MQTT with Home Assistant

Introduction Home automation is on the rise, becoming more accessible with the advent of smart home assistants. One powerful tool in this realm is Home Assistant, an open-source home automation platform that enables control of all aspects of your home…

Securing Proxmox with Authentik

Introduction In this how-to-guide we will be securing Proxmox with Authentik using the OAuth2/OpenID provider in Authentik. Proxmox Virtual Environment is an open-source server virtualization management solution based on QEMU/KVM and LXC. You can manage virtual machines, containers, highly available…

Home Assistant

Home Assistant Night Mode

Introduction In this blog post I will explain how I setup my Home Assistant Night Mode. My custom Home Assistant Night mode is used to easily turn of all lights and prevent motion sensors from turning on the lights when…

macOS Terminal Theme

MacOS Terminal Font

Using a custom MacOS terminal font can help improve readability in the terminal. After posting my MacOS Terminal Theme blogpost I got questions about that font that is used in the screenshots. I am using the Source Code Pro font…

PostgreSQL

Upgrade PostgreSQL to a new version

In this guide I will explain how to upgrade postgresql to a new version. For example on the new Ubuntu 22.04 LTS version you get a message that PostgreSQL version 12 is obsolete. Before upgrading to the new Ubuntu version…