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Leave home safely: Automatic open window checks with Home Assistant & sensors

Have you ever set off for work only to suddenly wonder if you've left a window open? This little uncertainty can linger in the back of your mind all day and cause stress. But don't worry Read more

By Sascha Brockel, 2 years ago 28. April 2024
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Smart Home

Smart doorbell for 15 euros: Integration with Home Assistant

The world of smart home technologies is developing rapidly, and more and more households are opting to make their apartments and houses smarter and more connected. A central component of every smart home is a smart doorbell. It enables Read more

By Sascha Brockel, 2 years ago 28. April 2024
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Set up Portainer easily: Mastering Docker & Kubernetes

Portainer is an open source management platform designed to simplify and automate the management of Docker and Kubernetes environments. It offers a user-friendly web interface that allows even less experienced users to effectively manage container orchestration platforms. These are some key features of Read more

By Sascha Brockel, 2 years ago 1. June 2026
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Smart Home

Making Govee TV Ambilight smart

In the world of the smart home, integrating different devices to create a seamless experience is a must. One particularly exciting possibility is the connection of Govee TV LED backlights such as the DreamView T1 or T2 with Home Assistant to create a Read more

By Sascha Brockel, 2 years ago 28. April 2024
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Smart Home

Smart power measurement with PowerCalc in Home Assistant

In today's world, where energy efficiency and sustainability are becoming increasingly important, it is crucial to understand and control the energy consumption of our household appliances. This is where the integration of PowerCalc into Home Assistant comes into play, a powerful tool that Read more

By Sascha Brockel, 2 years ago 31. May 2026
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Docker

Set up health checks - reliably monitor cronjobs, scripts & more

What is Healthchecks.io? Healthchecks.io is a monitoring service specifically designed to monitor periodically executed tasks (like cronjobs). It works by waiting for a "sign of life" from your scripts - a so-called "ping". When a scheduled script is successfully executed, Read more

By Sascha Brockel, 2 years ago 8. May 2024
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Tips & Tricks WordPress

WordPress recycle bin leads to start page

Maybe you have the same problem as I had some time ago. When deleting posts or drafts, WordPress always threw me back to my start page instead of landing in the post overview. I also had the same problem when deleting plugins. Read more

By Sascha Brockel, 2 years ago 29. January 2024
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Tips & Tricks WordPress

Solution: cURL error 28: Resolving timed out after 3000 milliseconds

For months I had cURL error 28 in my WordPress instance and with it the problem that I had loading times of 30 seconds to one minute for calling a single page in the whole dashboard respectively wp-admin area. I really Read more

By Sascha Brockel, 5 years ago 11. March 2024
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Tips & Tricks

Operate monitors & audio devices via hotkey

Some of you will feel the pain of having a setup consisting of multiple monitors and then, for example, a TV on which you play a few games every now and then. You then do not need your 2 main monitors and Read more

By Sascha Brockel, 3 years ago 17. October 2023
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Tips & Tricks

How to keep your emails from ending up in spam - Ultimate Guide

Anyone who owns their own domain knows the pain. Emails may end up in spam for the recipient. And that even though the message may not even have an attachment or images. The reasons for this can be manifold. Maybe the domain is on Read more

By Sascha Brockel, 4 years ago 29. July 2024

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