• Home Assistant ... Improved Backups

    After last week’s disaster when I almost lost all my Home Assistant configuration, I felt it was time to improve my backup process to ensure I had some offsite backups in case of a genuine disaster occuring.

  • GitHub Fail ... and Home Assistant Backups

    They say there are four different ways that people learn. These ways are: - Auditory Visual Kinesthetic Reading/Writing I am definitely the 3rd kind! And boy did I prove that last night with my Git education.

  • GitHub Pages and Jekyll - Frustration Central!

    As part of my GitHub learning, I have tried to use as many of the available features as possible. I identified two features that I wasn’t using: - GitHub Pages (AKA Websites) Wiki

  • Home Assistant Voice

    I spent some time trying to get Home Assistant Voice working. I found it to be an extremely frustrating experience. The documentation while comprehensive, is confusing and disjointed. Just my humble opinion.

  • GitHub Actions and Workflows (AKA CI)

    Exploring other people's Git repositories led me to investing time in learning about GitHub actions. All I can say is wow! My programming skills are OK at best, but learning from others in the open-source community has resulted in me now having some awesome CI workflows running on my Git repository, making life so much easier.

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