Lately, I have been quickly progressing on my journey to try to use nymea in my home and other places. You can read about how I set up Nymea on an ubuntu USB drive with persistency here if you want to do it too. Shortly after setting it up and getting it working with a few standard IoT devices, I…
Zone Minder – My Re-Visiting Journey
Way back in about 2009 or 2010 I remember my buddy installed something called zone minder on an old computer I had and with a few web cams, somehow or another I was able to monitor my coffee shop from home. It was pretty amazing and cool and free and open source. Fast forward to twenty-twenty-something, I was messing around…
Nymea Journey 3 – Making Some Stuff Work Without Smart Hardware
Not sure if you’re like me, but I like to try out some quick tests of a new system before I start buying hardware. My plan for the Nymea journey is first figure out how how to install it (covered here), then figure out how to be able to use it a bit before committing to server (covered here), then…
Nymea Journey Part 2 – Setting up a Persistent USB Drive for Nymea Testing and Explaining
Backdrop Right away when diving into Nymea and trying to understand it and also explaining it to others, I found the need for a simple, dedicated Linux distro in my pocket ready to boot up a Nymea server wherever I am. But this thing would need to be able to save a few things – mainly my nymea setup –…
Code Snippets Busted Broke Crashed Killed My Website
Now this was a bit of a heart-attack time for me so I thought I’d do a quick blog to clarify a few things so that the victim (like me) can more calmly walk through the situation. First, let’s make sure you are in the same situation as me. Checking Situation I had code snippets installed on my Woo commerce…
How to Stick a Github Repository into Yunohost to Test out Bleeding Edge Stuff
From time to time you might need to install (ie. for testing) a non-stable version of software onto Yunohost. In many cases this can be both a scary and complicated process. With Yunohost, however, it’s shocking easy and almost feels ‘friendly’ like the rest of their user interface. There are two ways to do it: With a command line while…
Planning Your Yunohost Install for Small Business
Yunohost is an amazing self-hosting platform with an incredible number of super valuable tools for small businesses ranging from website hosting to email hosting to email marketing. I’m really trying to force myself to move my business over to this platform to better protect company and customer data, as well as other financial savings. However, while going through the process…
Installing Roundcube in Yunohost
Roundcube is amazing email webmail software. Not only does it have encryption (awesome) but it also seems to have DKIM and the full meal deal. Best of all it comes with Yunohost as a one-click and well supported install. It is a ‘one-click install’ on Yunohost… However… you should consider before you begin, if you want it sitting on your…
How to set up Successful Email for Yunohost with Digital Ocean Droplet
To help making your Yunohost email server have more successful deliverability rates, I knew I had to set up DKIM, SPF and DMARC. I had done this elsewhere and for other email servers, but not Yunohost. Here is a log of my journey and how to do it. Optional Section: Set up DKIM for Email Signing Some say DKIM is…
Setting up Yunohost on Digital Ocean
This is the main tutorial I followed to install Yunohost (“YH” for rest of blog) on a Digital Ocean (“DO” for rest of blog) droplet, and this blog is basically my expansion notes to go with it to help myself and others who might need. Before you begin the rest of the YH setup work, make sure your owned domain…