While most of Home Assistant settings can be configured through the user interface (UI), there are still some things that require direct editing of the configuration.yaml file.
For example, to enable a “Wake on LAN” feature it is required to add wake_on_lan: to the configuration.yaml file and restart Home Assistant.
In this post you will find the three most easiest ways to edit the Home Assistant’s configuration.yaml file. (more…)
Go, or Golang, is an open-source programming language focused on simplicity, reliability and efficiency.
The official MSI Go installer for Windows requires admin rights, which are not normally granted on corporate work or school computers.
This post provides a step-by-step guide on how to install Go on Windows without administrator privileges. (more…)
MikroTik logs are valuable on their own, but they are even more useful when paired with Telegram notifications.
Receiving notifications on Telegram when someone is trying to log in to your MikroTik router can help to detect suspicious login attempts, including potential hacking attempts, allowing you to take appropriate action in a timely manner.
In this article, I will guide you through the process of configuring a separate log file on your MikroTik router that will only contain authentication log entries.
And also I will show how to set up a scheduled script that will be sending a notification about each login attempt to Telegram. (more…)
Notifications are an important part of monitoring of a MikroTik router’s health, performance and different events, including potential security issues.
Telegram is a popular messaging app that offers a variety of features, including notifications.
It can be used to receive notifications from various sources, including MikroTik.
This post provides a step-by-step guide on how to configure MikroTik to send messages to Telegram and integrate it into MikroTik scripts. (more…)
Synology NAS is a perfect platform for running Home Assistant.
Running Home Assistant as a virtual machine on Synology NAS has a lot of advantages and here are some of them:
This blog post provides a step-by-step guide on how to install Home Assistant on Synology NAS as a virtual machine. (more…)
Synology Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) is a virtualization platform that allows to create, run and manage multiple virtual machines on a Synology NAS.
It combines computing, storage and networking resources on a single hardware platform and allows to build a cost-effective and easily managed virtualization environment.
This post explains how to install VMM on the Synology NAS and perform the initial setup. (more…)
The tail and head are two of the most commonly used commands for displaying the contents of a file in Linux.
Windows PowerShell, in its turn, also has equivalents of the Linux tail and head commands.
From this short post you will learn how to use the equivalents of the tail and head commands in Windows PowerShell and how to dynamically print a file’s contents, i.e. follow it like using tail -f. (more…)
The help command is a special command that is used to provide more information on another commands.
In Windows PowerShell the help command can be called at any time to learn more about a command’s usage and syntax, like the available options and how to structure the command to use these options.
However, at first, it may not be so obvious how to actually call the help command in PowerShell and this short post can help you with this. (more…)
A fist time installation and initial setup of a Synology NAS is actually a quite easy process.
After unboxing your Synology NAS, ensure that it comes with one AC power cord + adapter and, at least, one RJ-45 LAN cable.
The basic Synology NAS configuration implies installation of hard drives, Synology’s operating system and creation of RAID/volume where you will actually store all the packages and files.
This post provides a simple and easy to follow step-by-step beginner’s guide for setting up the Sinology NAS using the Sinology DiskStation DS1522+ as an example. (more…)
Many Windows users are encountering a problem of a command prompt cmd.EXE window that opens randomly and closes so quickly, that there is no time to do anything with it.
If you are also facing the black cmd.EXE window that keeps popping up and disappearing, most of all it is triggered by some automatic task that is launching it periodically.
This note shows how to identify and disable the scheduled task that causes cmd.EXE to keep popping up. (more…)