SRE: Noun;

A professional paid to curse at computers and networks.

Setup Prometheus and Grafana in Your Homelab

I wanted nice graphs for the various metrics I collect in my homelab and from my Home Assistant server. Here’s how I installed Prometheus and Grafana in my homelab to get them. ...

April 13, 2024 · 6 min · 1256 words · Me

Set up nut-upsd and peanut in your homelab

Set up nut-upsd and peanut in your homelab I run my Synology server and network switches off a UPS. I decided I wanted a dashboard for the UPS, here’s how I did set up Network UPS Tools, aka NUT, and the PeaNUT dashboard. ...

April 6, 2024 · 5 min · 932 words · Me

Released ha-mqtt-discoverable 0.12.0

Released ha-mqtt-discoverable 0.12.0 ...

November 22, 2023 · 1 min · 62 words · Me

Weird Home Assistant Scripts Bug

I ran into a weird Home Assistant scripts issue when I upgraded to 2023.11 from 2023.06 (I know, but I didn’t need the new features and had higher priority stuff to deal with) last week. After the update, when I went to add or edit a script, I started seeing 500s. After some messing around, I eventually moved the couple scripts I had from scripts.yaml as inline scripts in configuration.yaml, restarted, and when I went to edit them, HA offered to migrate them into scripts....

November 22, 2023 · 1 min · 174 words · Me

Homelab Upgrade from USG-Pro to UDM-Pro

Last Tuesday night, my USG Pro died. I got it secondhand and I got almost five years use out of it, so it was past time for a more performant replacement. ...

August 26, 2023 · 4 min · 735 words · Me