It’s common knowledge today that seamless monitoring and observability of all your production software stacks is key for successful service delivery. Along with a tight integration into your CI/CD pipeline, service and software monitoring offers a lot of insights on what is going wrong during your build, test and release workflows and how to quickly […]
When I came to play around with GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline framework recently, I could not believe how simple and effective that functionality is! It does not really matter, if you just want to automatically check each of your Git commits by using lint or to fully build your artefacts, GitHub actions allows you to […]
First things first: I did fell in love with my Synology NAS! After a year of running my DS-218+, I can’t believe how I used to work without it before. What is so special about the DS-218+ Synology DiskStation is not that it is an incredibly flexible network storage, BUT much more that it is […]
When ordering my Original Prusa MINI way back in April this year, midst the Corona crisis, I did not anticipate the 4 months of inpatient waiting time. Prusa Research stopped the shipping of 3D printers during the Corona crisis, to produce the urgently needed face shields for hospitals, which stands for Josef Prusa’s innovative personality. […]
Within the last weeks I did prepare a completely new help and tutorial page for all our TabShop users, which can be found here: https://tabshop.smartlab.at/help.html The help page is focused on how to solve typical Point of Sale (POS) related use-cases within TabShop. Examples are how to define your own product stock lists, how to […]
TabShop began in 2012, when it was first published in Google Play store. Back then, I could not imagine how popular this Android application would become. Now, 8 years later TabShop POS will reach 500K overall downloads, with hundreds of shops using TabShop day by day worldwide. The app came a long way, adding feature […]
Dealing with data, statistics and visualization in my daily job and locked down at home through the governmental precautions, I thought I build a Covid-19 (Corona) virus information dashboard. The dashboard is built by using Johns Hopkins University (“2019 Novel Coronavirus COVID-19 (2019-nCoV) Data Repository by Johns Hopkins CSSE”, you can download and review the […]
Telegram is a great way to receive home assistant (HASS) smart home automation information directly pushed to your Android or iPhone. By creating your own Telegram bot you get a lot of flexibility on sending home automation messages or even images from your security cameras to your mobile phone. The first step of attaching a […]
As a dedicated Home Assistant user for years now, I came to write an ebook covering all the important topics around home automation and tinkering your own Esp32 based sensors and actuators. Home Assistant is Open Source, written in Python and a lively community maintains over 3000 custom made components that allow you to control […]
Over the last months, I became more and more addicted to Home Assistant (Hass.io) and MQTT low cost wireless sensors. I was already familiar with several home and industrial automation systems that all come with a certain hardware (and price) and build upon a completely proprietary software stack. So long story short, I was searching […]