Home Assistant - Better Proxmox Monitoring with InfluxDB

In this post I will show how I used the External Metric Server feature in Proxmox to set up the best possible integration between Proxmox and Home Assistant.

Paperless-ngx Push Notifications

Here is a guide on how I set up mobile push notifications to my android phone whenever a document is consumed in paperless-ngx.

Home Assistant: Add Camera Snapshots to Push Notifications

In this post I will share an easy way to add real-time camera snapshots to your Home Assistant push notifications. This is a great way to level up your push notifications, allowing you to actually see what is happening at the instant a notification was pushed.

Laravel Development on Windows in 2022

In this post, I will show how I set up VS Code to streamline Laravel development on Windows.

Vue.js Single Page Application with ASP.NET MVC 5

In this post I will share how I set up an ASP.NET MVC 5 project as a SPA using Vue.js.

Git Merge Deep Dive

I started my research by trying to reverse engineer what Visual Studio does when you merge and resolve conflicts. That lead me to explore some other tools, like Meld, and to experiment with some of the optional merge strategies within git. Here is what I found.

Meld Merge on Windows and Visual Studio

I set out to standardize our tooling for diffing and merging code on our git repos so that everyone has the same experience when visualizing code differences, regardless of IDE or operating system. Ultimately I settled on Meld.

Fully Offline Video Doorbell for Home Assistant

Today I am sharing my setup for a fully offline video doorbell in Home Assistant. The camera, motion sensor, and doorbell are all integrated over local IP.

Home Assistant - Better Blue Iris Integration

In this post, I will show how I greatly improved the performance of my Blue Iris cameras in Home Assistant. Rather than using the camera component, I am using iframes to directly embed the UI3 interface into Lovelace.

Last Watch AI Update - v1.1 Released

It has been about 4 months since Last Watch AI was first introduced. I received a lot of great feedback from the community and today I am finally releasing a new major version. Full details below. Last Watch AI - Release 1.1.1 The most difficult part of this

Last Watch AI - Blue Iris Walkthrough

In this post I will walk through setting up Last Watch AI to process motion events from Blue Iris. I will show how to feed motion alerts from BI into Last Watch, and how to trigger recordings in BI if certain objects are detected.

Car Presence Sensor with Home Assistant and Last Watch AI

This guide will show how to set up a vehicle presence sensor in Home Assistant using some key new features in Last Watch. In this example, I have a camera set up on my driveway running on Blue Iris. By using two detection profiles in Last Watch, I was able