One of the common problems people have when they use Home Assistant Container is getting Home Assistant to recognise USB devices that you have plugged into the host computer, usually things like Zigbee or Z-Wave USB dongles. To make this work you need to map the USB stick from…
SONOFF Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle is a universal Zigbee USB stick. It can be used as a universal Zigbee gateway in Home Assistant or other open-source platforms via ZHA or Zigbee2MQTT. The device allows you to locally control all your Zigbee devices, so you don’t need multiple…
Tmux is an open-source terminal multiplexer that replaces the GNU screen. It allows you to access multiple terminal sessions simultaneously in a single window. You can run more than one command-line program at the same time and easily switch between multiple programs in one terminal. This terminal session…
Introduction Home Assistant is free and open-source software for home automation designed to be a central control system for smart home devices with a focus on local control and privacy. It can be accessed through a web-based user interface, by using companion apps for Android and iOS, or…
iTerm2 is a replacement for Terminal and the successor to iTerm. It works on Macs with macOS 10.14 or newer. iTerm2 brings the terminal into the modern age with features you never knew you always wanted. Key Features Split Panes Divide a tab up into multiple panes, each one…
Introduction A container-based solution for automating Docker container base image updates. With watchtower you can update the running version of your containerised app simply by pushing a new image to the Docker Hub or your own image registry. Watchtower will pull down your new image, gracefully shut down your…
Below are some helpful commands I've used to automate some tasks. They have saved me a massive amount of time. # Move files into folders with same name for file in *; do if [[ -f "$file" ]]; then mkdir "${file%.*}"; mv "$file" "${file%.*}"…
Before you install Docker Engine for the first time on a new host machine, you need to set up the Docker repository. Afterward, you can install and update Docker from the repository. Set up the repository apt-get update apt-get install -y ca-certificates curl install -m 0755 -d…