I have setup an instance of Home Assistant as the easiest front end for interacting with my home automation setup. While I am using the Universal Devices ISY994 as the primary communication hub for my Insteon devices, Home Assistant provides a much nicer interface for my family, including a great mobile app for them to… Continue reading Pulling metrics from Home Assistant into Prometheus
Category: Home Automation
Getting Synology SNMP data into Prometheus
With my new cameras installed, I have been spending a lot more time in the Diskstation Manager (DSM). I always forget how much actually goes on within the Synology, and I am reminded of that every time I open the Resource Monitor. At some point, I started to wonder whether or not I could get… Continue reading Getting Synology SNMP data into Prometheus
Camera 1, Camera 2…
First: I hate using acronyms without definitions: NAS – Network Attached Storage. Think “network hard drive” SAN – Storage Area Network – Think “a network of hard drives”. Backblaze explains the differences nicely. iSCSI Target – iSCSI is a way to mount a volume on a NAS or SAN to a server in a way… Continue reading Camera 1, Camera 2…