Automating my Tesla Powerwall 3 Using Home Assistant, Teslemetry, Solcast, and Predbat

Recently, I’ve been having an uphill adventure fully automating my new solar/battery system, and there were a number of challenges I stumbled upon which I couldn’t find documented...

Redirecting DNS traffic using UniFi DNAT and Pi-Hole

It’s been a while since I last made a blog post, sorry. Lots of good things have happened in that time. I’ve since setup a company and, if...

Monitoring Fail2ban actions with Zabbix

I’ve spent a few days trying to solve this problem and Google was giving me zero hits. That, and the Zabbix documentation can be less than intuitive at...

Securing Nginx with Keycloak

I have a large number of services exposed on my network. Most of these services are available for the benefit of anyone who happens to frequent my WLAN...

Proxmox and Docker

Message from the future I do not recommend using a Proxmox hypervisor as a Docker host. There are all sorts of nasties which can manifest by...