Upgrading Home Assistant and Fixing icon_template warning errors
Amazon Prime Day is over and now it is time to upgrade everything. We will be upgrading our chair and then Home Assistant! It’s been at least a…
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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 start and stop…
How to manually upgrade your Synology Surveillance System firmware
Recently, my Home Assistant lost the ability to stream live feeds from my cameras. The cameras attached to my Synology NVR1218 system still appeared fine in Home Assistant…
Migrating Windows Based vCenter to VMware Virtual Appliance 6.7 Walk Through
All of my new implementations are running VMware’s vCenter Virtual Appliance. It is SOO easy to deploy and includes everything you need for your infrastructure including Update Manager. …
Home Assistant 0.90 release upgrade
Yesterday Home Assistant dropped another release. They are on a 2 week release schedule so updates are many and frequent. I was excited about this one since the…
How I Upgraded Home Assistant to 0.88.1 – fixing all the breaking Changes!
I have been putting off upgrading Home Assistant for about a month now because of all of the breaking changes. I tried before and was spectacularly unsuccessful with…
Upgrading VMware vCenter 6.0 appliance with a Windows based Update Manager option
I ran into an interesting situation the other day. When vSphere 6.0 was the hot new product out there, I had converted a client of mine from a…
How to Upgrade VMware UAG 3.3 to 3.4 (Universal Access Gateway)
VMware released the new Universal Access Gateway (UAG) 3.4 a while ago (What’s New) and I finally got a chance to upgrade my 3.3 appliance to 3.4. Here’s…
How to Upgrade Home Assistant Ubuntu to 18.04.1 LTS
If you have recently logged into your Home Assistant terminal and have seen a message letting you know that there is a new release ‘18.04.1 LTS’ available and…