In my last post, I got Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) working for my Home Assistant home automation server. It worked at the time, but that was for a very basic configuration of Home Assistant. As I started to set up more components that needed keys or passwords, things started to get hairy. Luckily, … Continue reading Maintainable Secrets
Automating The Automation
I just got Home Assistant running on my Raspberry Pi in my previous post. Unfortunately, trying to edit the configuration file on the device is a major pain. The good news is, with the magic of automation, we can make things more convenient. We can put our configuration in a git repository, and set up … Continue reading Automating The Automation
Home Assistant Setup On Raspberry Pi 3B+
First, download the installation image from here. Then, unzip the image. Connect the SD card you are going to put in your Raspberry Pi, and then write the image to the card. Make sure you get the write device for the of= part. dd will overwrite whatever is there, even if it is your system drive. I … Continue reading Home Assistant Setup On Raspberry Pi 3B+
Arch in Bhyve on FreeNAS to Run Plex
It took some doing to get it working, but I think this is about as efficient a setup as I could have had. I have a server running FreeNAS for backup/storage purposes. FreeNAS has a Plex plugin, but for Plex Pass users, which I am, the FreeBSD operating system on which FreeNAS is build doesn't … Continue reading Arch in Bhyve on FreeNAS to Run Plex
To The Helm – Part 2
In Part 1 of this series, I had something basic up and running: an Elm front-end talking to a Haskell back-end. The next step is to get some persistence out of the back-end. We need Haskell to talk to a database. The tutorial I was following went with a simple Sqlite interface, but I wanted … Continue reading To The Helm – Part 2
The Arch of Progress
My home laptop is a 5(?) year old Lenovo Yoga 13. I've been running Ubuntu 17.04 on it for the last year. Lately I noticed it was running out of memory on a regular basis and then having major problems. Basically just locking up all the time. The machine only has 4Gb of RAM, and … Continue reading The Arch of Progress
To The Helm – Part 1
Now that I've gotten my feet wet with both Haskell and Elm, I want to try and put them together. I'm just going to try something simple. Let's make a standard task list app. Note: You can find the code for this post here. I found a series of blog posts of somebody trying something … Continue reading To The Helm – Part 1
Climbing That Tree
You can find the code for this post here. Now that I've got Elm installed and working, it's time to really take it for a spin. I'm going to continue on with the same tutorial I was following in the last post. They want to use an RPG tracking system for an example. I decided … Continue reading Climbing That Tree
Planting an Elm
Now that I'm on a decent footing with my Haskell stack, it's time to get started with Elm. First things first, I needed to install Elm. I am running a Linux distro, and I happened to already have npm installed, so I just ran: and bam, I've got elm installed. If you're running Windows or … Continue reading Planting an Elm
Haskelly Fizzbuzz
The code for this example can be found here. Once I've gotten a basic environment working (as outlined in my previous post), I like to go through a simple exercise to make sure I understand the basics of writing code and tests. I like the classic fizz buzz game as good first exercise. Plus, it gives … Continue reading Haskelly Fizzbuzz
Everything Functional 
