I was looking for a simple dashboard that I could use as a home page on my clients. I found it. [ Read More]

As a big fan of Node-RED and Apache Hop, it took me a long time to give n8n a try. But because n8n is one of the few that has out-of-the-box nodes for QuestDB and because I wanted to [[P1 reader - Save Data From Smartmeter2mqtt with n8n to QuestDB|store]]... [ Read More]

Smartmeter2mqtt is an application that parses smartmeter data over the network or a P1 cable, I use it in combination with a P1 reader ethernet from Marcel Zuidwijk. [ Read More]

QuestDB is a high-performance, open-source SQL database. QuestDB’s stack is engineered from scratch, zero-GC Java and dependency-free. It includes endpoints for PostgreSQL wire protocol, high-throughput schema-agnostic InfluxDB Line Protocol, and a REST API for queries, bulk imports, and exports. [ Read More]

InfluxDB is a time series database. [ Read More]

When I heard that my employer was using the no-code platform Betty Blocks my interest was piqued. Although I like to write code with, for example, C# or javascript, the visual nature of no-code/low-code platforms appeals to me. [ Read More]

Here I explain how you can setup a web service by using the Apache Hop Server. [ Read More]

I found out that an IoT device (smart power strip) had the setting to communicatie with a syslog server and I couldn’t find any documentation about that setting. That was a great opportunity for me to setup a Telegraf container as a syslog server. [ Read More]

Jellyfin is a great open source media system and in my case Jellyfin replaced Plex. Here I describe my setup of the Docker Jellyfin container. [ Read More]

Here I describe my setup of the Docker Apache Hop Server container. Apache Hop is an open source data integration platform and a fork of Pentaho Data Integration. In recent years I have enjoyed using Pentaho both at home and professionally and I’m very excited about Hop. [ Read More]