Home Assistant

Home Assistant: How to change Icon color dynamically with Config Template Card

Ed Brandon  -  February 14, 2023

For many sensors in Home Assistant you may want to change icon color dynamically on your dashboard. Having the icon color turn on or off was not enough for me especially for thermostats. I wanted to use a range of colors to show how extremely cold or hot the temperature was. The way I accomplished...

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ICY DOCK 6 Bay Enclosure

Add drives to a Linux RAID for more storage

Ed Brandon  -  October 10, 2022

My 6 Terabyte 4 drive RAID 5 array was starting to get tight on space. Upgrading the motherboard to a GIGABYTE X570 AORUS ELITE gave me 6 SATA ports so I could finally populate the the two empty bays in my 6 bay ICY Dock enclosure. I’m adding two Seagate BarraCuda 2TB 2.5 inch Internal...

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Plex

Plex Hacked! Change your password

Ed Brandon  -  August 26, 2022

Got this email from Plex Dear Plex User, We want you to be aware of an incident involving your Plex account information yesterday. While we believe the actual impact of this incident is limited, we want to ensure you have the right information and tools to keep your account secure. What happened Yesterday, we discovered...

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The Callisto Protocol

The Callisto Protocol – New Gameplay Reveal Trailer

Ed Brandon  -  August 24, 2022

Sony released new game play video for one of my most anticipated games of 2022, The Callisto Protocol. ***Update 9/29/2022 The Truth of Black Iron Trailer

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GoW-Ragnarok

God of War Ragnarok Release Date Countdown

Ed Brandon  -  August 12, 2022

Ragnarok is coming! Watch the latest trailers Preorder here!

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My New Mini Home Proxmox Server

Ed Brandon  -  August 11, 2022

It was becoming very clear my traefik server running on a raspberry pi 4 was being overwhelmed as the size of my Docker Swarm has grown. While looking into upgrading my main desktop’s CPU from an old AMD Ryzen 5 1500x to a Ryzen 5 5600 I started to think what am I doing to...

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AMD Ryzen 5 5600

Why Should I Upgrade to a Ryzen 5 5600

Ed Brandon  -  April 25, 2022

I’ve been running a Ryzen 5 1500X on a GIGABYTE AB350-Gaming 3 board for 4 years now. I finally got the itch to upgrade. While my system is working perfectly fine there is no need to spend the money to build a new system. Upgrading to right CPU will give a few more years to...

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