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:…
In this guide, I’m going to show you an incredibly simple way to create a menu to display all of your most-used Powershell scripts. In this tutorial, I am using PSScriptMenuGui. This module uses a simple 6-column .CSV file, which is where you will specify things like the script path, button name, section, and description….
In this guide, I’m going to show you how to setup Plex Assistant, which is a project that integrates with Google Assistant. This allows you to say things “Hey Google, tell Plex to play Game of Thrones on Living Room Chromecast”. There are two installation methods available for Plex Assistant. One of the methods is…
In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to install Nginx Proxy Manager in Docker on a Ubuntu 20.04 VM. This guide was created in January of 2021, so all of the info here should be up to date. The main goal of this post is install Nginx Proxy Manager so my Plex users…
Mealie is a self-hosted recipe manager and meal planner. It has a beautiful UI, is easy to use, and very customizable. The developer is also actively adding new features to it, which is something I always like seeing in self-hosted apps. To add a recipe, simply copy and paste a URL into Mealie and it…
This tutorial will show you how to install Portainer with Docker on Ubuntu 20.04. Overall, you will learn how to install Docker-Compose, create a portainer volume, and then create the Portainer container. Step 1: Install Docker Compose To install Docker-Compose, open Putty and SSH into your server. Then run this command: Then, set the permissions:…
If you’re looking for a simple step-by-step guide to install Docker on Ubuntu 20.04 in 2021, look no further than this guide. **You must be running either Windows 10 Pro or Windows Server 2019 and have the Hyper-V role enabled. Windows 10 Home doesn’t have the option to run Hyper-V virtual machines.** Prerequisites For this…
Are you interested in self-hosting a Bookstack wiki using Docker? If so, look no further than this step-by-step guide. For multi-container applications (like Bookstack), it’s easiest to use Docker-Compose. Bookstack is one of those applications that are easiest to deploy using Portainer, so in this guide I’ll show you how to: Install Docker Compose Deploy…
Are you looking for a step by step guide to deploy Adguard Home in Docker? If so, then you’ve come to the right place. Adguard Home is a great Pihole alternative for the self-hosted users who would rather setup DNS ad blocking via a container instead of a raspberry pi. This guide assumes you already…
On my quest to find the perfect self-hosted dashboard, I came across an amazing dashboard called Homer. According to the developer, Homer is a “dead simple static HOMepage for your servER to keep your services on hand, from a simple yaml configuration file.” If you’ve read any of my previous posts, you’ll know that really…
