We already have the power! We now need to get my ESP32 micro contoller online and able to connect to the Wi-Fi. There are some components and gotchas along the way of connecting things up. Let me show you… Prepare the infrastructure My plan is to use my installation of Home Assistant in this project. This runs in a docker container, on a Linux VM, running on my local Proxmox host. Since I’ve got a dedicated VLAN for my IoT-devices…
I’m not sure if it’s my elite hacker skillz, or just my wish for better user experiences that drives me to find ways to wash out the lines between your own computer and desktops running in the cloud. Either way, I found this method online that I want to share with you. I will share what my challenge was, how I solved it and what it feels like for the users. The challenge: The thing that always has bugged me…
Let me tell you a little story about a useful tool called Microsoft Secure Score and how one of it’s recommendations led to a crisis by killing off authentication for a Azure File Share… The Story A customer had been using Azure File Share for quite some time as a replacement for a little local NAS. All was good and well. All of the files lived happily in the cloud and no hardware to worry about. All is good! The…
My plan is to make this greenhouse totaly independent with it’s own power. “With great power, comes great responsibility” someone said… And great power comes from the sun, in this case. The introduction to this project can be found here: Greenhouse IoT Project – an app in Teams The setup In order to have some power for this setup I wanted to try out solar power. Sourced some new parts, and some used. Got the solar regulator for cheap second…