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Automated tasmota backups
A smart home consists of dozens of smart devices — and backing them up is essential to restore them quickly in case of failure.
How to use Visual Studio Code on your iPad
Using an iPad as a replacement for a computer is easy for non-development tasks — but what about coding? Here's a fully portable VSCode setup that works even offline.
Presence detection: Bee in a box
Presence detection in a smart home can be realized quite easily — without tracking GPS positions or installing motion sensors.
ESP32 as BLE Gateway for Xiaomi Mijia BLE Temperature & Humidity Sensor
The Xiaomi LYWSD03MMC humidity sensor is one of the most popular BLE sensors on the market — cheap, battery-powered, and easy to integrate with an ESP32 as BLE gateway.
Monitor the pH of your reef tank with Tasmota
Monitoring the water values is essential, especially for owners of reef tanks. I didn't want to do my drop-test by hand anymore, so I connected my tank to Homeassistant instead.
Network segregation: IoT vs NoT networks
Having dozens of IoT devices in your private network is a security flaw — devices that phone home can quietly open a route from the internet into your local network.
Unattended docker container updates
Running your services in containers is convenient — but keeping them updated is a different story, and there are more comfortable ways than doing it by hand.
Using the cloud as panic room
You come home, the front-door is wide open, and you start to realise that your digital life has been stolen. Your computer is gone, and so are your backup disks. Horrible scenario, right?
Docker Image Review: jwilder/nginx-proxy
Ever wondered whether there is a good alternative for scenarios where a full featured ingress proxy would be overkill? Here it comes — and you already know how to configure it, since it's based on nginx.
Docker containers are insecure
Containerization provides isolation, so if you are running containers on a fully patched host, there should be no security holes at all. Not even close.