Logarex Smart Meter IR Interface

Background I’ve been wanting to extend my homelab capabilities with a server that I can quickly spin up virtual machines on. Proxmox seemed like a logical choice but I was undecided as to which hardware to run it on. Plus I had no idea where to put the machine so that I could have a free power socket for it and also be able to connect it to my...

Background I recently changed positions and moved from a pure software engineering role to a devops one. I’ve been working on devops task throughout my software development career and have always found them to be very rewarding hence the move. Plus I still inevitably have programming tasks when we need to customize a piece of software or create a...

So I’ve been working as a Devops engineer professionally for almost a year now. I’ve learned a lot and I want to put those skills to the test. This challenge is: Deploy a development environment with an IAC (Infrastructure as Code) tool. Create a test application comprising of a simple rest api backend and a html/javascript front end. Create a...

I recently wanted to learn more about the SNMP (simple network management protocol). This protocol has been around for decades and is widely supported throughout the industry. For that reason it’s a useful protocol to consider when you want to monitor hardware in your network.

So living in Germany you tend to accumulate a fair amount of documentation. What’s worse is that it all could be potentially important to some future beaurocratic process. I wanted to make the archiving of these documents digital and searchable. I haven’t really found any android application out there that does what I want so here I go down the...