In this tutorial, I am going to show you how to integrate your OpenSprinker smart sprinkler system into Home Assistant. By the end of this guide, you will be able to turn on individual stations, run your “Run Once” programs, check last run time, and much more – all from your Lovelace dashboard. For reference,…
One of the most recent smarthome projects I’ve worked on was making my sprinkler system “smart”. After doing some research, I stumbled across an open source project called OpenSprinkler. OpenSprinkler is web-based sprinkler controller for your lawn, garden, or plants. If you’d like to play around with a live demo, you can do that here:…
If you’ve been looking for a Powershell script to find the most recent computers that have been joined to your Active Directory domain, then you’re in luck. This Powershell script is super simple and is only a few lines of code long. I’ve also paired it with my Next In Line Computer Name Script. We…
In the IT world, it’s common practice to name all of the computers you join to the domain with the same naming convention. For example, we use company abbreviations-operating system-next in line number. The computers we join to the domain look like hsbw10p611, hsbw10p612, etc. Every new computer object gets the next incremented number. Typically,…
If you work in the IT department, chances are that you loan out laptops to your users every once in a while. They may need something temporary to use when giving a presentation, if their work computer breaks, or simply for testing something. In our case, we had to loan out a lot of laptops…
Whenever a new employee starts at your organization, chances are that you typically send out an email template with all the necessary info they’ll need. These include things like how to submit an IT ticket, connect to the VPN, map a printer, or how to setup various accounts and tools. On my quest to automate…
In this guide, you’ll learn how to move a computer object from one OU to another. This is a great step to automatically moving computers or servers to the correct group using Powershell, instead of manually moving them. Step 1: Delegate Control of an OU in Active Directory Before you can move a computer object…
In case you haven’t heard of or used Password Pusher, or pwpush.com, it is a service that allows you to enter passwords into a web browser, which is then turned into a URL that expires after a certain number of days or views, or both. While emailing passwords is not a good security practice, creating…
The title is a little wonky, but let me explain. We use Veeam for backups at our company. We have a pretty standard backup procedure: incremental backups are taken on weekdays, and full VM backups are taken on weekends. Each backup job goes to it’s own folder. Within those folders, there are tons of .VIB…
If you’re looking for a simple one-line Powershell script to open a webpage (or multiple webpages), then this tutorial will work perfectly for you. I use this script to open several URL’s during our new hire deployment in a brand new Chrome browser window. For example, when a new employee starts, we typically have to…