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. ...

In the next few posts, I’m going to document how to set up Home Assistant (HA) from scratch. We’re going to want to protect the admin UI interfaces for HA and its support services with SSL, and add authentication to services that don’t provide it themselves. We’re going to do this with Nginx Proxy Manager because it has built in support for using LetsEncrypt to obtain free SSL certificates, supports adding authentication to services that don’t do it themselves, and is overall easy to use. Before I start writing more Home Assitant articles, let’s set up a SSL proxy server to keep everything secure. ...

Some of my posts assume that the user already has ESPHome installed, so I’m documenting how to install it here so I don’t have to repeat it everywhere. ...

As part of moving from Twitter to Mastodon I decided to add comments to the blog using Fediverse posts. Fortunately, Carl Schwan showed how he does it on his blog here. Here are the exact tweaks to his post I did to get it working with the papermod theme I’m using on this blog. ...

Just got an Orange Pi 5. I couldn’t find a simple set of instructions on how to boot it off the M.2 NVMe slot, so I’m documenting it here. ...