Year: 2024

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Turn on/off Samsung SmartThings A/C from Fibaro HC3

In order to integrate your SmartThings devices into Fibaro HC3 you need to create access token and review API documention which can be found here: https://developer.smartthings.com/docs/api/public#tag/Devices/operation/getDevices Then, to send on or off command to your device, grab its UUID, create QuickApp with the following code:

Technology

Recovering Sentry from disk full state

If you have Sentry on-premise installed and run out of space, then bringing it back can be a little bit tricky. Especially if you have tons of projects configured with loads of data coming into it. If you can accept some in-memory data to be lost then search for redis container and flush it. Sentry can use hundreds of GB of both RAM and swap and still do not start. So, first search for Redis, as it ca be named differently depending on your Sentry version: Once you flushed Redis, run full restart and it should start within acceptable time

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Connecting WiZ LED lights to Fibaro HC3

In popular DIY markets you can buy Philips WiZ LED light bulbs. They are affordable choice over Hue lights. WiZ lights operate thru WiFi connection and can be integrated easily within OpenHAB system as a wizlighting binding coming from marketplace. However it is not a case in Fibaro HC3 where there is no direct integration. However… you can create your own QuickApp application and insert custom Lua code to communicate over UDP with those LED bulbs. To get status of a bulb (a.b.c.d is a IPv4 address): To turn on the light: To turn off the light: And here we

Technology

E-mail Service Desk with self-hosted GitLab EE and iRedMail

In order to process incoming e-mail messages as issues registered in GitLab you need to have catch-all mailbox and GitLab configured to handle it. However, there are few quirks you need to know when setting it up. Assuming you have GitLab installed as well as iRedMail. iRedMail First, create new mailbox in iRedMail admin panel. Then manually create forwarding record. You could skip this is you purchased iRedMail Pro: At this point you can check if catch-all feature is working by sending mail to non existing mailbox user. What is especially important is to verify if messages will come once

Security

Encrypt with LUKS an unencrypted LVM Ubuntu 22 Server without system reinstallation

Keep your data safe. Device loss or unauthorized access can be mitigated by encrypting drive in your server and workstation. So you may have a Ubuntu Linux installation on your bare metal or virtual machine. Does it have an encrypted drive? If the answer is no, then you could be in trouble when device is stolen or lost, or someone just gained unauthorized access to your hardware. In this short step-by-step article you can see what steps your should take to encrypt your unencrypted drives without need to reinstall the system. When speaking workstation, there is much less concern about

Security

External and redundand Azure VM backups with Veeam to remote site

Backup is a must. Primary hardware fails. Local backups can also fail or can be inaccessible. Remote backups can also fail, but if you have 2, 3 or even more backup copies in different places and on various medium chances are high enough that you will survive major incidents without data loss or too much of being offline. Talking about Microsoft Azure public cloud platform. But in case of any infrastructure environment you should have working and verified backup tools. Azure has its own. To keep those backups in secure remote place (in the context of Storage Account) you can

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BPMN process modeling with Bonita Studio

Building applications to do things better leads to operational excellence. And using digital tools and applications across the enterprise to do business differently – to enable innovation and creativity – leads to strategic advantage. When digital transformation tools are applied to the long-term vision and creativity of the enterprise, digital transformation becomes strategic. Download Bonita Studio Community from https://www.bonitasoft.com/downloads. There is either zip package or installer available depending on your operating system. At the moment of this writing there Bonita Studio Community version 2023.02-u0. TLDR In this article you will see how to create project, organization and design sample BPMN

Security

Recovering Proxmox VM from failed HDD

Due to previous failure of SSD drive from Goodram I was forced to use brand new 1TB HDD from Toshiba. It was not a problem because the system running on it mainly have been using writes with not too much reads. My SSD drive had some performance drops which could be because of the fact being run out of the same power socket shared with some DIY tools in garage. Now there is no power socket sharing I think that I may close server lid with too much force, so even brand new HDD failed. Proxmox reported failure of disk

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Create own shorcut icon in Ubuntu 22 panel

If you want to run some curl on icon click from Ubuntu 22 panel, then you need to create file in ~/.local/share/applications: Then after few seconds, press special key (aka Windows key) and type your “application” name. You can grab and paste it onto application panel to be shown as a shortcut.