Tag: Docker
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Who Owns the State? Putting My IR Fans Behind Home Assistant Matter Hub
My ceiling fans, their lights, the bedroom TV and the aircon are all controlled by infrared, so none of them can say what state they're in. I had them in Google Home through the Broadlink app and in Home Assistant directly, and the two kept disagreeing. Here is how I made Home Assistant the only owner of that state and gave Google Home a Matter bridge to talk to it. Voice control now picks the right room's light without being told which.

The Day Claude Code Got Creative With Legacy Python
My code is modern Python with strict typing that needs 3.10+. The targets were a fleet of field devices stuck on Python 3.6, no internet access, and a main application that depends on that 3.6 staying exactly as it is. Here's how Claude Code talked its way out of that corner - and how it proved the plan worked before I let it near a real device.

NFS Hang Troubleshooting Guide
Updated:I've been struggling with a docker container that accesses my NAS using NFS mounts, it hangs and refusing to restart on demand. Turns out it's related to NFS mounts. I've been struggling to kill the process as it just sits there as a zombie. Symptoms ps aux command hangs and never completes Process stuck in…

Homepage Dashboard
After Homarr kept failing on me, I moved my Servarr dashboard to Homepage instead. It takes more setting up than Homarr, since everything is config files rather than a UI, but it's been solid ever since.

Servarr Apps
Updated:When it comes to grabbing media from Usenet, the Servarr apps are second to none. I've been using Sonarr and Radarr for quite some time to grab TV programs

Zombie Docker Container
A Docker container can end up stuck in Up state while actually being dead inside — docker stop and docker kill both fail with 'did not receive an exit event', and the app inside is unresponsive. Here's the root cause and a script that recovers it…


Prometheus, Alert Manager and Docker Swarm
Updated:This is not a complete plug and go HOW-TO for using Prometheus for scaling a Docker Swarm, but it does contain the building blocks for how to do it. Orches

Docker and a Local Squid Proxy
Updated:I've been repetitively building a Docker multi-stage image and found many of the Python requirements are dragging in some pretty large content. This isn't

Nginx Proxy Manager and GoAccess
Updated:Nginx proxy Manager (NPM) is a simple-to-use management interface for the Nginx reverse proxy. It handles the Let's Encrypt certificates with ease. GoAcces