I just love to measure stuff in my apartment. I have temperature and humidity sensors in every room, I monitor all doors and windows, have multiple motion sensors and bought a VINDRIKTNING [https://www.ikea.com/de/de/p/vindriktning-luftqualitaetssensor-70498242/] air quality sensor last month. Some days ago I learned…
After trying many different smart home solutions, I finally found a tech-stack that I'm happy with: * Home Assistant * Zigbee2Mqtt * Mosquitto One great thing about Zigbee is the large amount of affordable lamps, sockets and sensors. However, when I was planning to also control my radiators via Home Assistant I was…
If I was only allowed to self-host one single tool it would be Nextcloud. When I started buying servers and got into the self-hosting game when I was still in school, I thing Nextcloud (or it could have been Owncloud back then) was the first service that I set up.…
The self-hosted service that I use most of the time (without even noticing it) is probably my VPN. It allows me to reach my machines (home server, Raspberry Pis etc.) from everywhere outside of my home network. A few year ago setting up a VPN was a time consuming task…
I use the awesome tool borg [https://www.borgbackup.org/] for my backups. Although I really like most CLI tools, I always found the borg syntax quite hard to remember. That's why I created this little bash-script that I use on all of my machines: #!/usr/bin/env bash # Borg…
Last year I finally built my first nixie clock [https://blog.mrupp.eu/nixie-tube-clock-with-seconds/]. While I was still happy with the electric design and the software, I felt that it was time for a nice case. I always liked the look of the red coated nixie-tubes, so I decided to…
I recently switched to Gnome on all my machines replacing KDE. One problem that immediately bothered me was that the "eu" layout is not in the list of available keyboard layouts in Gnome settings. Using setxkbmap eu was possible, however, Gnome would reset the layout every few minutes which is…
After trying out many different CMS and blogging solutions, I decided to stick with ghost [https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost]. Ghost's WYSIWYG editor is the best on the market in my opinion. Deploying a ghost instance is pretty straightforward as well. Since I use containers for almost everything, I started…