Unifi Protect Person detection in Home Assistant

Triggering Unifi camera (Unifi Protect) person detection in Home Assistant. Since recent Unifi Protect API updates the entities in Home Assistant appear to flip too quickly for Home Assistant automations to detect (less then 0.5 seconds). Checking the state of entities such as camera-name.detections for person or on either doesn’t work or works unreliably. What […]

Monitor Wiregaurd Tunnel on OPNsense

In order to use Monit to monitor your Wiregaurd tunnel/endpoint on OPNsense we need to direct the Monit ping service to change its source address to the local address of your OPNsense router. By default OPNsense will attempt to ping a remote hose from the default WAN address. This should also work for monitoring OpenVPN […]

Enabling Ubiquiti Camera SSH on UNVR

How to enable SSH into the Ubiquiti (Unifi) cameras adopted to a Unifi NVR (Network Video Recorder).

Installing Tailscale on OPNsense

How to install Tailscale on OPNsense using the community repository.

Using ZFS BE’s with opnsense

How to backup and revert OPNsense using ZFS boot environments

Greenbone Security Manager on Synology Docker

The post explains how to add vulnerability testing to a Synology NAS using Docker and Greenbone Security Manager. It starts by ensuring the Synology has pip3 properly installed. Then, it instructs on creating several directories under /volume1/docker/gsm/. Finally, it details setting up a stack in Portainer, using docker-compose, to run the vulnerability scanning services.

Up Arrow history SEARCH on dietpi

I was missing the UP Arrow command history search feature of the ZSH shell when I switched to DietPi OS. I re-implemented this feature in DietPi’s bash shell using the .inputrc file.

XCode 10 Library Pane

The library pane in XCode 10/11 no longer remains open and ready for use. I’m not sure why Apple changed the behavior of the library pane, requiring you to re-open it each and every time?! To solve the issue, option click the icon and the library will stay open (although still in separate pane)!

Adding pitch data to MLB-LED-SCOREBOARD

Implementing pitch type, pitch count, pregame weather and broadcast network into the python based mlb-led-scoreboard project.

Pharm IT Build or Buy? Data Flow Can Be Key

Whether you build your own platform from scratch or purchase a commercial product, the “golden rule” of pharmacy operations is to limit duplicate data entry, said Nicholas Saraniti, the CEO of Solera Specialty Pharmacy, speaking at the 2016 Asembia Specialty Pharmacy Summit.