Home Assistant only supports subscribing to one MQTT broker. This is a problem, if you get sensor data from multiple different brokers and want to display them in your dashboards. So in this post, I will show you a solution on how to configure one of the brokers as an MQTT bridge. By doing this,Continue reading “Setting up Home Assistant with two MQTT brokers (using MQTT bridge)”
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Running Docker containers on Proxmox
Proxmox Virtual Environment is a great way of hosting virtualized resources (virtual machines and LXC containers). But setting up such an LXC container, and then running Docker, is not too easy for a beginner. In this post, I will list the steps to get it running. Basically, these are the main steps to take: SoContinue reading “Running Docker containers on Proxmox”
Telegraf, InfluxDB, Grafana with docker-compose
Docker is a great and easy way to run software in containers. Docker compose is a nice extension which allows to run whole systems composed of multiple containers in one command. This post shows you how you can set up a so-called “TIG” stack consisting of the open-source tools Step 0: Install Docker If youContinue reading “Telegraf, InfluxDB, Grafana with docker-compose”
What is Docker? How does it work?
In short: Docker is a platform and toolkit to develop applications that consist of multiple small containerized components that can be started, updated and replicated independently from each other. How it came to be Factor 1 – Monoliths are hard to handle Humans develop software since the early days of computers. Programming languages have evolvedContinue reading “What is Docker? How does it work?”