The Energy Stats page on this website provides a live view of how electricity is being generated, stored and used around my home. What began as a relatively conventional solar and battery installation has gradually developed into a much broader home energy project involving solar panels, a GivEnergy system, BLUETTI […]
William Rendell
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Every afternoon at 5pm, my Home Assistant system looks at the next 24 hours of Octopus Agile electricity prices and creates a charging plan for my home battery systems. Rather than charging everything during a fixed overnight period, the automation examines all 48 half-hour Agile slots, identifies the best-value periods […]
End of July 2026 Miles and Mason aka MX2 preformed at their first festival…. the Cheltenham 7’s festival.
The below command will list the domains in a postfix queue, with the numbers of mails for the domain.
That displays the queue summary and refreshes it every 30 seconds. Press Ctrl+C when you want to stop it.
sudo dnf update -y curl -o webmin-setup-repo.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/webmin/webmin/master/webmin-setup-repo.shsudo sh webmin-setup-repo.sh sudo dnf install webmin -y sudo systemctl enable webminsudo systemctl start webmin sudo systemctl status webmin sudo firewall-cmd –add-port=10000/tcp –permanentsudo firewall-cmd –reload https://SERVER-IP:10000
Step 1 – Install the QEMU Guest Agent inside Debian sudo apt updatesudo apt install qemu-guest-agent -y Step 2 – Enable and Start the Service sudo systemctl enable qemu-guest-agentsudo systemctl start qemu-guest-agent Check its running sudo systemctl status qemu-guest-agent Step 3 – Enable the Guest Agent in Proxmox Now switch […]
Set up a virtual IP on proxmox cluster apt updateapt install keepalived -y nano /etc/keepalived/keepalived.conf run this on all nodes on the master node add this to the keepalived.conf vrrp_instance VI_1 {state MASTERinterface vmbr0virtual_router_id 51priority 150advert_int 1 } on the slave nodes add this to keepalived.conf vrrp_instance VI_1 {state BACKUPinterface […]
From a Windows powershell terminal in the above just change name/ip-here to the name or ip of what you are testing then change port-number-here to the port number you need to check. Test-NetConnection -ComputerName 8.8.8.8 -Port 53 The above example is checking if TCP/IP port 53 (DNS) is open on […]
Commands DOWNDown means down, it does not mean down then go do something else, there should be no need to use Stay or Wait when in a down. SITAs above Sit means Sit, no exceptions! OUTWhatever you have in your mouth, release it and get it out. LEAVEThis tells your […]
This is a simple and crude method to disable an interface based on the volume of data that has gone through it. In the below example we will be using the rx bytes on ether4 In the example above the above script is scheduled to run every 5 mins, if […]