I was looking to extend the capability of this Grav by adding some extra Plugin's, but it did not go well.

Some plugin's are now showing their age, and haven't had changes in years, so adding can be hit and miss, or, as in my case, led to total failure.

Keeping track of changes should be second...

Adding to the various V3700 issues faced so far, this one had lost communication between the nodes over the pci bus link. One offline node could not join the cluster, and the only resolution was to reboot the san. This was done with the failed node unseated, and once up, the second node was added, s...

I have a few projects in mind to add to the home assistant.

Irrigation I have some moisture sensors still to implement, once I figure out how to maximize the existing cat5e cable to the solenoids. I have most of the parts ready to start. I did consider moving the relays to the solenoid end, but s...

Modbus isn't most Home Assistant users first thought when connecting to devices. Most probably think wireless, but modbus has it's merits.

Reliability and power over the cabling are two good reasons to use it.

Coupled with a low cost or DIY modbus tcpip to RS485 gateway to avoid the often unreli...

Today's effort managed to crash my Devuan desktop's sata interfaces while trying to hot plug a drive. The putty sessions to another host stayed intact, but everything else kind of froze, but not quite lockup.

A bit inconvenient while trying to resurrect the web and email platform, after the FreeBS...