Interested in home automation, Apple, web development, programming, network engineering, retro computing, hiking, and electronic music.
#HomeAssistant #KNX #ESPHome #macOS #iOS #MikroTik #Unifi #WebDev #HomeLab #Podman #ZFS #NixOS #systemd #OpenStreetMap
| Pronouns | he/him |
| Blog | https://aaron.cc |
| GitHub | https://github.com/aaronk6 |
| OpenStreetMap | https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/aaronk6 |
Oh, another nice thing I just saw: iOS Live Activities are finally coming to #HomeAssistant!
Roadmap entry: https://github.com/OpenHomeFoundation/roadmap/issues/52 (pull requests linked in a comment)
Can't wait, this has been missing for quite a while.
The official WireGuard UI for Apple platforms is essentially unmaintained. I just discovered Passepartout, a modern VPN client for Apple platforms with support for OpenVPN and WireGuard.
The best thing is: there’s Split DNS in the current beta! Now I can send requests for my local domain through the tunnel and use another DNS server for everything else. I really don’t want to lose mobile connectivity just because my landline is down.
https://passepartoutvpn.app #WireGuard #iOS #Networking #VPN
Running Podman 
in production for years now, and I don't miss the Docker daemon one bit.
I just published a deep dive on managing OCI containers the Unix way: daemonless, rootless, and natively integrated with systemd via Quadlets.
I cover:
- Real secrets management
- Auto-updates via systemd timers
- The Docker compatibility layer
This is the guide I wish I had when making the switch.
Read it here: https://blog.hofstede.it/podman-in-production-quadlets-secrets-auto-updates-and-docker-compatibility/
#Podman #Linux #DevOps #Systemd #Homelab #Sysadmin #Containers
@aaronk6 Music Assistant is the one Add-On I don't update when I have no time to test everything.
Too many times I had to debug it when my child had bedtime and no music played out of the sudden.
Clint from LGR also answered a question I had in an earlier post: SimCity didn’t have in-game music (in fact, SimCity 2000 was the first version to include it).
Nice, LGR covered “SimCity Enhanced CD”, which is exactly the version I played in the 90s (except I had the German version). I agree that those video sequences are extremely cheesy and annoying, still I have some nostalgia for them.
I disagree with him on the 256-color graphics, though: to me, they look much nicer than in the original.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRfpuaHuzDY #retrogaming #retrocomputing #simcity
My wife complained that the radio stream in the bathrooms had stopped working. Turns out Music Assistant 2.8 introduced breaking changes to the Home Assistant integration and I was using the `latest` tag on the Docker container instead of pinning a specific version.
Max Maass 
Larvitz 
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