Installation and initial set up Download the Hyper-V image from https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/windows/ Load the appliance image into your virtual machine hypervisor. Minimum recommended assignments: After creation go to “Settings” -> “Security” and deselect “Enable Secure Boot”. Adding Home Assistant Community addons profile > enable advanced Settings > Addons > “Terminal & SSH” Open terminal and run…
Category: Little Guides
Automate Debian installations with Seed, DHCP and Nginx.
In this post i will detail how to automate the installation of Debian through the use of a Seed File and DHCP. If like me you install a few Debian Servers for things like web servers and stuff. you will have had to sit through the installation, clicking options. Well now you don’t have to….
A simple link shortener.. Fun little project…
We have all seen and used those URL shorting sites. It takes a very long link and converts it to a short link for emailing. When you click the short link it takes you to the link website address. Below I thought I would make my own. Feel free to use the below to make…
A Simple Load Balancer. Also Monitors Node Stats.
Below i document how to make a simple Load Balancer. This load balancer uses HAProxy and monitors the health of a server using a script. If the health of the server goes down, HAProxy Removes the Node from the “Cluster”. Below is the HAProxy Config. Below is the PHP Script running on the servers to…
I just wanted to control dumb storage heaters… But…..
So my story beings like so many people in this country with storage heaters. Dumb storage heaters that have no real control. You either turn them on or charge them during the night and let the heat out during the day. This was not what I wanted. I wanted more control over the temperature in…
Installing a CePH Cluster (quincy)
In this post i detail how to get a CePH quincy Cluster up and running. This is my standard goto script for setting up any CePH Cluster and then tweak it once set up. Set hostname for all nodes Update hosts file with all servers in the cluster Inital Software Install CephADM Create local SSH…
Install Observium and PHP WeatherMaps on Debian 11.
Observium Installation You may need to install wget on bare installations Grab Observium installation script and run it. WeatherMap installation and configuration log on to gui “http://[IP_Address]/weathermap/editor.php” and make a new weather map “network.conf” click on “map properties. In “Output Image Filename” > “network.png”. In “Output HTML Filename” > “maps/network.html”. Once you have created a…
Linksys WRT54G + DD-WRT + OLSR = WIFI MESHING…. (Initial testing example)….
In the next few posts to come, i will be detailing my OLSR + Wifi Meshing…. Below is a simple config example. I will be explaining this example later. WRT54GL (Internet connected router) ——– WAN: 20.20.20.20/24 LAN: 192.168.1.1/24 SSID: OLSR WLAN unbridged: 10.1.1.1/24 MODE: AD-HOC Router mode: Gateway OLSR: eth1 Node 01 —– WAN: Disabled…
Ubuntu 12.04 Server: GRE Tunneling
Here is an easy way to make use of IPv4 GRE tunnels in Ubuntu, or any other Debian based distro. You will need to edit /etc/network/interfaces. Here is a template with the information you will need to add: auto tun1 iface tun1 inet static address <tunnel IP> netmask <tunnel subnet mask> pre-up iptunnel add tun1 mode…
GRE between Vyatta Core & pfSense
Below i show the config for Vyatta Core and pfSense configuration details, in order to create a GRE Tunnel between two sites. Vyatta Core Configuration: vyatta@vyatta1-site1:~$ show configuration interfaces { ethernet eth0 { address 192.168.1.1/24 duplex auto hw-id 00:0c:29:00:a3:d7 smp_affinity auto speed auto } ethernet eth1 { address dhcp duplex auto hw-id 00:0c:29:00:a3:e1 smp_affinity auto…