My personal tech blog — homelab, self-hosting, and infrastructure notes.https://atsiekratsie.nl/https://atsiekratsie.nl/blog/move-from-openzwave-to-zwave-js/https://atsiekratsie.nl/blog/move-from-openzwave-to-zwave-js/I noticed that I got “depreciated” in my OpenZWave dashboard on HomeAssistant. Though the official documentation did not provide an easy migration, thus I me...Thu, 31 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMTHome AutomationHomeAssistanthttps://atsiekratsie.nl/blog/zoneminder-on-ubuntu-with-hikvision-cams-using-nfs-storage/https://atsiekratsie.nl/blog/zoneminder-on-ubuntu-with-hikvision-cams-using-nfs-storage/Another home project of mine was to set up cameras around my house to keep annoying peeps away. But instead of buying an expensive NVR (Network Video Recorde...Wed, 02 Dec 2020 00:00:00 GMTNASSecurityhttps://atsiekratsie.nl/blog/simple-mincraft-server/https://atsiekratsie.nl/blog/simple-mincraft-server/My two daughters are becoming gamers as they see their dad gaming from time to time. Besides Roblox, they love Minecraft but just have 1 account. Thus I deci...Mon, 08 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMTCloudVirtualisationhttps://atsiekratsie.nl/blog/getting-started-with-openshift/https://atsiekratsie.nl/blog/getting-started-with-openshift/You might have heard that IBM has bought Red Hat. Now we can start to speculate why but IMHO it had something to do with talking to the "cool kids" with Open...Sat, 05 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMTCloudVirtualisationhttps://atsiekratsie.nl/blog/sabnzbd-on-freenas-11-2/https://atsiekratsie.nl/blog/sabnzbd-on-freenas-11-2/I did a blog in the past on installing SABnzbd on FreeNAS though with code release 11.2 this changed and the plugin is not listed by default anymore. There a...Tue, 21 May 2019 00:00:00 GMTNAShttps://atsiekratsie.nl/blog/migrate-domoticz-to-new-raspi/https://atsiekratsie.nl/blog/migrate-domoticz-to-new-raspi/I have been running Domoticz for quite some time now and it has become the central point of our home. We don't use it just for the lights but also camera's, ...Tue, 14 May 2019 00:00:00 GMTHome AutomationPihttps://atsiekratsie.nl/blog/deploy-ibm-cloud-private-on-two-ubuntu-vms/https://atsiekratsie.nl/blog/deploy-ibm-cloud-private-on-two-ubuntu-vms/From my current System job at IBM, we talk a lot of "IBM Cloud Private" where you can build your own Cloud using, at its core, Kubernetes, Docker and Helm. I...Sun, 15 Apr 2018 00:00:00 GMTCloudhttps://atsiekratsie.nl/blog/python-jupyter-on-ubuntu/https://atsiekratsie.nl/blog/python-jupyter-on-ubuntu/Recently I started an online course to learn Python to understand the global concepts of Machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI), Big Data, and Roboti...Mon, 09 Apr 2018 00:00:00 GMTCodehttps://atsiekratsie.nl/blog/opnsense-openvpn-on-vmware/https://atsiekratsie.nl/blog/opnsense-openvpn-on-vmware/I decided to pull my dedicated server from “collocation” and rebuild it for home use. I was running VMWare on my NAS (see earlier post) and was about to hit ...Mon, 19 Feb 2018 00:00:00 GMTNetworkingVirtualisationhttps://atsiekratsie.nl/blog/sickbeard-sabnzbd-on-vm/https://atsiekratsie.nl/blog/sickbeard-sabnzbd-on-vm/Now that I have virtualized my FreeNAS installation I no longer need to run "Jails" on FreeNAS and can use a normal Ubuntu installation to run my downloading...Sun, 08 Oct 2017 00:00:00 GMTVirtualisationhttps://atsiekratsie.nl/blog/running-freenas-using-vmware/https://atsiekratsie.nl/blog/running-freenas-using-vmware/I was running my FreeNAS installation dedicated on my NAS BuildI did last year. Though I wanted more freedom thus installing a hypervisor (VMware) to run mul...Sun, 09 Jul 2017 00:00:00 GMTNASVirtualisationhttps://atsiekratsie.nl/blog/building-my-new-pc/https://atsiekratsie.nl/blog/building-my-new-pc/Here is a short build blog for my 5th PC. My old one was almost 6 years old and after the memory and GPU upgrade during 2016 I was unable to scale more and g...Sun, 09 Apr 2017 00:00:00 GMTHardwarehttps://atsiekratsie.nl/blog/sabnzbd-sickbeard-freenas/https://atsiekratsie.nl/blog/sabnzbd-sickbeard-freenas/One of the things my NAS at home does is Downloading! I am using SABnzbd as a the download engine. This tool connects to the usenet provider and can download...Thu, 05 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMTNAShttps://atsiekratsie.nl/blog/installing-freenas/https://atsiekratsie.nl/blog/installing-freenas/After my hardware build I looked into what operating system my NAS should be running. Because I have 4 drives it should be capable of doing a type of RAID, a...Sun, 25 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMTNAShttps://atsiekratsie.nl/blog/need4seat/https://atsiekratsie.nl/blog/need4seat/This is not going to be a huge blog entry though I would love to share my latest addition to my "mancave" TZE CHAIR! I've been watching some twitch lately on...Sun, 04 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMTHardwarehttps://atsiekratsie.nl/blog/dyi-building-a-nas/https://atsiekratsie.nl/blog/dyi-building-a-nas/As a storage enthusiast I love to build my own NAS. I am sure that if you read this you know already what a NAS is, but for those of you who don’t; a NAS (Ne...Fri, 18 Nov 2016 00:00:00 GMTHardwareNAShttps://atsiekratsie.nl/blog/ddwrt-asus-rt-ac66u/https://atsiekratsie.nl/blog/ddwrt-asus-rt-ac66u/Here in Holland the hype to get fiber to home is booming. Unfortunately where I live Cable is still the fastest connection available with 200 Mbit download a...Thu, 20 Oct 2016 00:00:00 GMTNetworking