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home monitoring
What’s Up, Home? – Zabbix Plays Rock-Paper-Scissors
November 29, 2024
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Zabbix 7.0 is so fast that in a small environment such as What’s up, home? it gets bored. Very bored. What does Zabbix do when it gets bored? It uses its new Selenium-based Browser item type and plays some Rock-Paper-Scissors against this blog site.
What’s Up, Home? – Welcome, Zabbix 7.0beta3
April 26, 2024
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When Zabbix 7.0beta3 got released, I immediately updated my What’s up, home? environment to run it. As usual, the update process was seamless and fast, going through everything in about a minute with my Raspberry Pi 4.
What’s Up, Home? – I created my first Zabbix 7.0 custom widget
March 15, 2024
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As Zabbix 7.0 will come with the new widget framework, allowing communication between different widgets on dashboards, of course, I had to try it out.
What’s Up, Home? – Time to start to use Zabbix 7.0 (at home)
March 8, 2024
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Since I will have some real use for Zabbix 7.0 when it comes out, I figured out that maybe it’s time to switch my What’s up, home? main instance to run on Zabbix 7.0beta1.
What’s Up, Home? – Monitor your ad blocker with Zabbix
November 28, 2023
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Can you monitor your ad blocker with Zabbix? Of course, you can!
What’s Up, Home? – How to secure your (home) monitoring
July 28, 2023
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As my home monitoring experiment has become such a celebrity and as it has so much going on, I’m trying to make sure I won’t ever lose its configuration and data, no matter what would happen. Here are some tips and reminders for you, too.
What’s Up, Home? – 7 things to beware of if you monitor your home
June 16, 2023
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When reading this blog, you could easily think that everything is smooth sailing all the time. No. When you monitor your home IoT — or frankly, just USE your home IoT — you have plenty of small details to watch out for. I list them for you, so you don’t have to find them out […]
Monitoring your cat’s health with Zabbix and the Litter Robot 3
January 27, 2023
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In this blog post, you will learn how to set up monitoring for your Litter Robot 3. There’s some amazing community scripts already available to connect to the Litter Robot through a selfmade API, which we’ll be using in combination with some Python scripts and Zabbix.
What’s Up, Home? – Living Inside an Audio Bubble
August 5, 2022
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Can you monitor your Bluetooth headset usage hours with Zabbix? Of course, you can!
What’s Up, Home? – Time to Get Sirious
July 29, 2022
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Can you integrate Zabbix with Siri? Of course, you can! By day, I am a monitoring tech lead in a global cyber security company. By night, I monitor my home with Zabbix & Grafana and do some weird experiments with them. Welcome to my weekly blog about the home project.
What’s Up, Home? – Say Cheese!
July 22, 2022
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Can you take screenshots of the websites you monitor with Zabbix? Of course, you can! By day, I earn my living by being a monitoring tech lead in a global cyber security company. By night, I monitor my home. Welcome to my weekly blog about how I monitor my home with Zabbix & Grafana and […]
What’s Up, Home? – The Relaxing Breeze
July 15, 2022
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Can you monitor a home air conditioner with Zabbix? Of course, you can! By day, I am a monitoring tech lead in a global cyber security company. By night, I monitor my home. Welcome to my weekly blog about how I monitor my home with Zabbix & Grafana and do some weird experiments.
