I’ve got an old HP laser printer in my basement. We barely print 10 pages a month between the two of us, so we only turn it on when we’re going to print. That’s a hassle though, because inevitably we forget to shut it off sometimes and it stays on overnight or even for days, and while it has a powersave mode, the 4050N is so old that even that burns a good amount of power. Enter Home Assistant. ...
I have an old HP 4050N. For a variety of reasons, I want to have it behind a print server instead of having my laptops print directly to it. Here’s how I set that up. ...
Sending notifications from Home Assistant via Twilio SMS I got a post published at work about How to Receive Alerts from Home Assistant with Twilio SMS, so I won’t replicate it here. TL;DR - It is super easy to send SMS messages via Twilio SMS with curl. Update: I wrote another article, Use PagerDuty with Home Assistant this time for using PagerDuty which allows automatically de-duping notifications.
Adding the Plex integration to Home Assistant is pretty straightforward with the exception of finding your Plex token. Find Your Plex token: Sign into your Plex.tv account Browse to one of the media files (TV episode, movie) on your connected server. You’ll need a Plex pass for this. Select Get info Click View XML Ignore the XML. Look in the URL to the XML page - you’ll see Plex-Token\=XYZZY. That’s the token you’ll need....
I’ve got a mix of architectures in my basement cluster - some Odroid HC2s that are arm7, some Raspberry Pi 4s that are arm64, and am soon going to add an Intel node as well. It’s more hassle than it’s worth to have to specify different images for the different architectures. I already build my own copies of images, so I decided to start building all my images as multiarchitecture images. ...