Home Assistant

This is a web based interface for automating things around the home. It can monitor doors, windows, motion detection and turn electrical things on and off.

Linux in the House

The amazing things you can do with computer software in your home, ya GNU?

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By: Don Cohoon

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Matrix Messaging

Matrix is a messaging system you can on your server. It allows your to send messages to a phone/watch from command line on the server. It is useful with HomeAssistant for monitoring the house.

Media Management (audio/video)

This is where I manage Music and Television files.

Music …

Miniflux News Reader

Miniflux is an RSS (Really Simple Syndication) server that will fetch and display RSS feeds from other websites. Also known as a news reader.

Mirror Disks

Mirroring disks on Linux is simple and prudent to ensure your data survives hardware, software and human failures. All data from one disk is duplicated on another disk and if any one disk fails, you will never know it. So it is important after setting up to monitor …

Network Attached Storage (NAS)

The NAS provides a safe place to store important data. Set this up before running E-Mail or a cloud service because it is the best place to put important files. If an E-Mail server crashes you still have all your E-Mail files on the NFS (see …

NCMPCPP Commands

Simply run this on your host running Music Player Daemon (MPD) over your ssh session

Postgresql Database

Postgresql relational SQL database for systems. This is a great database with high reliablity, performance and extendable.

Postgresql Move Database to Another Filesystem

Mainly used this on SBC (BeagleBone) computer to move a database from SD card (/var/lib...) to SSD disk (/data/lib...). A database will burn up an SD card quickly 😟