Monthly Archives: November 2015

nmap 7

Open source-Projekte haben unterschiedliche Philosophien…bei nmap wird nicht nach “Release early, release often” gestrebt und so dauert es schon mal über drei Jahre bis zum nächsten Release. Aber nun ist nmap 7 da....

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myStrom support for Home Assistant

The dev branch of Home Assistant has now support for the myStrom WLAN Energy Control Switch....

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MQTT switch simulator

For testing new stuff on Home Assistant I created a MQTT switch ‘simulator’. This way I can use switches in the frontend without have a physical switch connected. [crayon-66328ca38c0d2497879664/] And the part for the configuration file. [...

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Lock and binary sensor for Home Assistant

Great things happen in Home Assistant…there is now a lock component and a binary sensors. Especially the binary sensors will make at least my life easier because I see in which state my sensors are....

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Randsomware Linux

The latest buzz word beside “Big data” is “Randsomware”. At lot of people are talking about this topic and suggesting about counter-measures. Not only in case of a malware infection a backup can be useful. Keep in mind, that a...

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Home Assistant 0.8

Home Assistant 0.8 is out…Read the full announcement in the Home Assistant blog....

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FAD Python 3 Porting 2015

I have a lot of packages in the Fedora Package Collection and 30 % are Python. This was the reason why I participated in the FAD Python 3 Porting 2015. Somethings that I noticed: I was lurking around most of … Continue reading →...

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Home Assistant survey

To get an idea of which components/platform are used the most I created a little survey. Of course will all data be used in marketing campaigns and we will sell your e-mail address to the highest bidder 😉...

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Home Assistant now with Pushetta notification support

Found another notification Tool: Pushetta. I integrated it because it seems to use MQTT under hood. [crayon-66328ca38d02c607573897/] If you have a minute or two to spent, then it would be nice if you take Home Assistant and Pushetta for a … Co...

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