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Adding Air Quality Monitoring to Home Assistant

The air quality along the US and Canadian east coast was pretty rough last week. It seemed like the kind of thing that would be good to monitor on a Home Assistant dashboard - turns out it’s pretty easy. Here’s how I did it.
3D Printers and USB Bus Overload

Last year I turned my gaming rig into a hackerspace server - and gaming rig. Alongside the gaming VM and test server, I’m also running 2 Octoprint containers for my 3D printers. Since that post, I’ve had 2 issues with my printers that I believe were both caused by the same thing: USB Bus Overload.
Centralized Ebook Management with Calibre, Calibre-Web, and KOReader

Ebooks have never been given the same first-class treatment in my house that other media types have. It’s been a haphazard collection of loose ebook files and unmanaged Calibre libraries. Device refreshes for our e-readers got me thinking about our e-book management and how it could be improved, and I’ve come up with something that I’m quite happy with. Here’s what I did.
HomeProd 2023

It all started with one computer that I played with to learn about linux and self hosting. Somewhat modest, but it was a HomeLab. It’s hard to put my finger on exactly when this happened, but we’re far from the definition of a lab at this point. This is my HomeProd.
My Backup Strategy

As 2022 comes to a close, it’s a wonderful time to reflect on what a pain in the ass data loss can be. I solidified my personal backup plan this year, here’s what I did.