Raspberry Pi running Archlinux

While doing some spring cleaning I discovered I had a Raspberry Pi 3 that was purchased at retail price years ago. This was the perfect candidate for a sprinkler controller I’ve been thinking of building for some now so I figured I’d poke around with a bit. In the past I’ve found that Raspbian/Ubuntu tends to get into some odd defunct state where updates just stop working and I’m forced to reinstall the latest version and start over.

Debugging Z-Wave in openHAB

I’ve been running openHAB as my home automation software for a few years now and recently I had to resolve some issues with Z-Wave devices. In order to do that I had to enable debugging in openHAB.

Running openHAB in Docker

I’ve been running openHAB for some time and I recently decided to recreate my setup in docker to run it on a bigger shared server instead of a Raspberry Pi 4. It was fairly easy but I did have to deviate a little for my configuration from what the documentation suggested.

Installing BorgBackup on Raspberry Pi 4

In this tutorial we’ll prepare a RPi4 to use as a BorgBackup server. It’ll contain a single (for now) USB hard drive to use as data storage with the option of adding move storage space in the future. I used the following hardware for this guide:

Takeout for Google

Did you know Google has a takeout service? No, not for food, but for helping you get off of the free tier.

Sign in with Google

As part of getting off of Google workspace, you’ll need to update 3rd party websites that use the “Sign in with Google” feature.

First Post

So I’ve been trying to keep all my wisdom to myself all these years and I’ve finally decided to share a few words.