Home Assistant and Docker
A very much work in progress documentation on how to run the popular open source Home Assistant to control all the smart home devices in my home.
HOWTO: Ubuntu mount NFS
Setting up NFS on Ubuntu and making a permanent mount is easy and straightforward. Install NFS through SSH. Step 1 – Downloading and Installing NFS sudo apt-get install cifs-utils Step 2 – Create folder for mount point To be able to mount an NFS target you will need to have an empty folder the mount […]
Quick Ubuntu SSH commands
Some quick commands that I refer back to every once in a while. #disable ipv6 sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6=0 sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6=0 #test drive write speed dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/output.txt bs=8k count=10k; rm -f /mnt/output.txt #start iperf on server, the receiver (ip 192.168.1.50) iperf -s #start iperf on client, the sender, testing speed to server iperf -c […]
Ultimate Media Home Server using Ubuntu & Docker
My home server consists of using Freenas (setup for mass storage) and a dedicated compute server with ESXi (no local storage) to run numerous virtual machines. I currently have a few different virutal machines running a 3CX phone server, Unifi Video, Ubuntu, Windows 10 and more. I’m writing this article for a few friends that have […]