Here I describe which networks/VLANs and WiFi networks I have created. And how I configured the firewall and added a rule that allows the Pi-hole from the SERVER-VLAN to be used by devices in other VLANs such as the CLIENT-VLAN and IOT-VLAN. [ Read More]

Here I describe how to create a n8n flow that receives parsed P1 reader data from Smartmeter2mqtt and then how to save this data to QuestDB with n8n. [ 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]

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 Telegraf container. Telegraf from InfluxData is a server agent for collecting metrics from sensors and systems [ Read More]

Within my Home Assistant dashboard I wanted to see information about my Docker containers. For example CPU use, memory use and status (running/not running). After some research I came across this fork of the ‘Docker Monitor’ integration. [ Read More]

Here I describe my setup of the Docker Grafana container. With Grafana you can create beautiful dashboards. [ Read More]

Here I describe how to create a sensor for Home Assistant that will monitor the size of the MariaDB database with a scan interval of one hour. [ Read More]

Here I describe how to create a sensor for Home Assistant that will monitor the size of the InfluxDB 2.x database with a scan interval of one hour. [ Read More]