Ian's TechBlog

I document my adventures and problems so that I remember my mistakes, and perhaps you may learn something.
I'm not a programmer, nor a computer expert.
I'm just a tinkering guy in Milwaukee with a store and three kids to keep me busy.

Tuesday, August 20, 2019

Toggling the Minecraft Server using systemd features

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The new school year is upon us, suddenly the kids are playing Minecraft much less. This means that the Minecraft server is sitting ther...

Home Assistant in an LXD Container, USBIP to remote USB Z-Wave dongle

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This post merely ties together a few existing items, and adds a few twiddly bits specific to Homeassistant, LXD, usbip, and my specific Z-W...

HomeAssistant in an LXD container

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It's time to migrate my Home Assistant from it's experimental home in a Raspberry Pi to an LXD container on my Ubuntu server. T...
Saturday, August 17, 2019

USBIP into an LXD container

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In a previous post , I used USBIP to forawrd GPS data from A to B. 'A' was a USB GPS dongle pluged into a Raspberry Pi (Raspbian). ...
Monday, August 12, 2019

Experimenting with USB devices across the LAN with USBIP

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USBIP is a Linux tool for accessing USB devices across a network. I'm trying it out. Reference 1 , Reference 2 , Reference 3 , Refe...
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Saturday, August 10, 2019

Experiment: Home Assistant in an LXD container without a venv

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Update: August 2020 (one year later) Here's a slightly different way of doing it entirely from the host. Tested with HomeAssistant vers...
Thursday, August 8, 2019

Creating an LXD container on my Ubuntu 19.04 host

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I just finished setting up LXD on my Ubuntu 19.04 server, and I'm ready to create a container. Installing the service into the con...
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