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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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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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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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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If you are using NUT (Network UPS Tools) you can monitor your UPS current and historical usage with Grafana. There are several Grafana dashboards available for NUT however I decided to settle on Unraid NUT UPS Dashboard TR. Now don’t worry if you are not running Unraid, neither am I and I was able to...
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If you are running Traefik in Docker and you are monitoring incoming traffic you will see all incoming connections are using IP addresses from the Docker ingress network. If you need the real IP of clients in Traefik connecting to your Traefik reverse proxy running in a Docker Swarm environment you will need to publish...
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I enabled Traefik access logs to use in Grafana for a Traefik to Loki dashboard. I quickly found out Traefik access logs grow quickly and I would need to rotate the Traefik access.log in Docker Swarm. Since I have Traefik running in a container in Docker Swarm we will have to tell the logrotate daemon...
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