Tag: Docker

Making Pi-hole Highly Available (and Fixing a Hidden Frigate Disk Trap)

Making Pi-hole Highly Available (and Fixing a Hidden Frigate Disk Trap)

A single Pi-hole reboot used to take my whole network’s DNS/DHCP offline. Here’s how I added a secondary DNS Pi-hole on a separate host, kept ... Read More

Using Home Assistant Time Machine to Back Up and Restore Dashboards

Using Home Assistant Time Machine to Back Up and Restore Dashboards

If you’ve ever broken a Lovelace view and wished for a quick “undo,” Home Assistant Time Machine is the safety net. It’s a lightweight web ... Read More

How to extend your Pi-Hole Ad protection beyond your own LAN

How to extend your Pi-Hole Ad protection beyond your own LAN

Explore how to extend Pi-Hole ad protection beyond home, leverage WireGuard VPN for mobile device management, & set up Docker-based network security. Read More

How to add an SSL Certificate to Home Assistant (the old fashioned way)

How to add an SSL Certificate to Home Assistant (the old fashioned way)

So this blog post is mainly for ME to reference in about a year when I have to do this process again.   The certificate I ... Read More

How to upgrade Docker Cockpit on Ubuntu 18.04

How to upgrade Docker Cockpit on Ubuntu 18.04

I run Docker for all of my Smart Home related servers.  My docker-compose file is on my GitHub repository and that is primarily how I ... Read More