Programs and Utilities

Guides to setting up various utilities

Pi-Hole

Pi-Hole is a network-wide ad blocking DNS resolver that makes use of blacklists to block ads. St...

Setting up a Samba share on Debian 11

Samba is a program that uses the SMB protocol to establish a network share that can be access on ...

Setting up Wireguard in an LXC container

Wireguard is a VPN solution that can be used to connect to the local network from the internet. I...

Heimdall

Heimdall is a self-hosted homepage, I like to use it to give a central page to access all web-GUI...

Home Assistant

Instructions for setting up Home Assistant

Setting up Home Assistant in Docker

Home Assistant is the backbone of my Smart Home, there are a number of ways to install it. Most r...

Configuring ZigBee radio for Home Assistant

I use the Zig-a-zig-ah! (AKA ZZH) is a ZigBee radio to connect to lights and sensors within my ho...

Logging

Configuring Centralised logging with Graylog

Graylog is a centralised logging solution that allows us to pool all the logs from the various ap...

Sending logs from Docker to centralised log server

Docker logs are not handled through rsyslog (at least not by default), since I am using Graylog, ...

Jellyfin in proxmox LXC container

1) Add samba share - create mount point, bind, add to fstab 2) install Jellyfin https://jellyfin...

Homepage

1) Create new LXC Container: Storage: 3GBRAM: 1024MBvCPU: 2 2) Run container and install depend...

Configuring cloudflare as DDNS with ddclient

Step 1: Install ddclient sudo apt install ddclient Step 2: get Cloudflare API key Go to https:...

Debian

Debian config guides

Setting static IP

Step 1 - Edit interfaces file sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces Step 2 - add following lines i...

Setting up the arr stack on a fresh debian 12 install

1) Install docker & docker compose # Add Docker's official GPG key: sudo apt-get update sudo a...

Quick setup script for Docker Compose

I have setup a quick setup script for docker compose, this automates the install process from htt...

Setting up Jellystat for Jellyfin

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