Skylar.Tech

I’ve been having ongoing issues with my internet service provider.

For the last several years, I’ve wanted a truly usable Home Assistant app for Pebble.

I haven't posted in a while so figured I would start off with one of my weird side projects.

I've been using a self-hosted federated Matrix server for chatting with family members and recently deployed it for one of my clients and needed a decent way to administrate the server.

Currently I am building software in Symfony 5.2 and noticed that my remember me was not working correctly (many of my users kept complaining about getting logged out everyday).

In application development you usually have migrations you run to pre-seed default application schema and data into the database (it is also used for updating and rolling back database changes).

When working with code locally on your machine there are often times you need a public URL pointing to your local machine (such as webhooks).

You've always been able to create custom components for Home Assistant by creating a custom_components folder inside your HA directory but did you know you can use this method to override default components that HA ships with?

I've been building a bunch of Sync code for a CRM and custom website recently and needed a quick and efficient way to track what entities/fields actually got changed.

Time tracking is essential for freelancers, small businesses, and other critical use cases.

I use MQTT for all of the sensors in my Home Automation setup.

I prefer to keep only active devices displaying in Home Assistant's front-end to keep things clean and was previously using Node-RED to accomplish this.

Lots of smart devices these days require you to use the cloud and have an active internet connection in order to use the device.

Having a quick view of triggered sensors can be extremely handy (such as if you forgot to close a door or want to know where motion is currently occurring).

I recently added Redis as a cache for my Nextcloud instance to increase it's performance.