Technology & Homelab Dynamically Deploy Telegraf and Windows Monitoring Configurations with PowerShell This is a Telegraf deployment script for Windows Server environments.
Technology & Homelab Invite users to a Ghost blog without sending an email The Ghost platform makes it all but impossible to add new users if you don't have a mail server configured. In this post, I will show you how to work around this and
Technology & Homelab Deleting Devices and Entities in Home Assistant One of my major bugbears in Home Assistant has always been that there's no proper way to completely delete a device or entity. However, that's not quite true...
Technology & Homelab Flashing ESPHome Firmware to ESP-01S In this post I'll run through how to create and flash ESPHome firmware for an ESP8266-based temperature sensor.
Technology & Homelab MacBook Pro Touch Bar - Fix stuck keys Those of you who rarely perform a full shutdown or reboot on your MacBook may occasionally encounter issues with the Touch Bar. One such issue is stuck keys. Unfortunately for me my escape
Automotive Upgrading and Repairing the Bora After buying my Bora I decided to carry out a number of repairs and upgrades. The end goal was to resolve the issues I identified before purchase and de-chav it. I have a few things planned, such as...
Automotive New car - VW Bora Sport I went to see a VW Bora Sport. As you'll see, it had been pretty distastefully modified, but there were some silver linings to the cloud of distaste. I was happy with the car and bought it, after knocking the price down by 30% of course!
Automotive Goodbye to the Golf I had some amazing times in and with this car. Below you can see where it started, only a few days after I bought it. Bone stock but I...
Technology & Homelab Discord notifications 2: Veeam Backup & Replication Part 2 of a Discord notifications series. Part 1 details notifications for Sonarr, Radarr and Lidarr. In a similar fashion to part 1, this setup has been running for a while and I'm very pleased with it's flawless functionality.
Technology & Homelab Install Windows Server on the HPE Microserver G8 in AHCI mode My problem was that once the server was put into AHCI mode instead of using the RAID configuration, the Windows Server installer would complain that it couldn't install to any of the disks as they were not compatible.
Technology & Homelab How to install Lidarr on Ubuntu Lidarr is still in alpha, but you can install it on Ubuntu with some ease. Credit for this goes to my friend Dan.
Technology & Homelab Discord notifications 1: Sonarr, Radarr and Lidarr This is made extremely simple thanks to Sonarr's built-in support for Slack notifications and Discord's built-in support for Slack webhooks. Of course Radarr and Lidarr support this too, as they are forks of Sonarr.
Technology & Homelab Disable the password complexity for Active Directory on a Domain Controller I recently ran into an issue where I couldn't change the password of an account in AD from one of the Domain Controllers. I realised it's because it has a different Group Policy than other computers. Run > gpmc.msc
Technology & Homelab Rebuilding the BCD with BCDEdit BCD stands for Boot Configuration Data. The BCD file lives in a folder called "boot" on the active partition of your hard drive. It contains information that instructs the computer on how to load the OS.
