Read on to learn how to use upsmon and upssched to shut down a server on a timer when on UPS battery.
Building NUT from source on Ubuntu
In this blog post I will walk through successfully building NUT from source with modbus support.
Add your own certificates to Elastic (with bonus AI)
I’ve had the Elastic stack running in my home network forever, as I’ve posted about countless times. From the start I had it running on a single server, with Elastic, Logstash, and Kibana all together. One day recently I was thinking about how I had one underpowered server running Elastic, while my file server was… Continue reading Add your own certificates to Elastic (with bonus AI)
Fun with weather data and logs!
A consistent theme of this blog is that I love collecting data. From setting up my own logging stack using Elastic at home to my almost 30-year-old Quicken guredle, I have always felt that if it isn’t logged and analyzed somewhere, it didn’t happen. I’m also a lover of weather and meteorology. Rain, temperature, humidity…these… Continue reading Fun with weather data and logs!
On those who are gone
This morning I woke up early to attend the Saturday morning session of the GenAI course I am taking. I did what I normally do when I am up first: fed the cats, made coffee, and read the news. I first saw mention of a shooting overnight in a comment on a blog, then quickly… Continue reading On those who are gone
Belated Friday Cat Blogging
I’ve had this incarnation of my blog since 2009 when I moved away from Google Sites (I think?), which is long gone. When I first started this blog, it was more about politics than technology, because at the time I was still working in politics. A big part of that was linking to other blog… Continue reading Belated Friday Cat Blogging
How I used Home Assistant and Python to ingest ESP32 sensor data
In this blog post I talk about how I use Home Assistant and its API to pull data from my ESP32 environmental sensors into Elastic.
Simple home observability with the ESP32 platform
In this blog post I talk about setting up a cheap temperature/humidity sensor based on an EPS32 board and BME280 sensor combined with the ESPHome project.
My Tech Journey, Part Five: Home Builds
In the fifth and last blog post on my tech journey, I talk about all of the computers I have built myself over the past 20 years.
My Tech Journey, Part Four: The Compaq Presario 5000
In the fourth post in this series, I talk about the computer I bought after college, the Compaq Presario 5000, and how I went in a different direction afterwards.