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Real-Time Brightness Adjustment When Charging (macOS)

This solution automatically sets your macOS display brightness to 100% when the power adapter is connected. It leverages a LaunchDaemon that runs a persistent script listening for power state changes via pmset. This event-driven approach ensures immediate response without unnecessary polling.

Requirements

macOS (tested on recent versions)
brightness CLI (install directly from GitHub, see below)
Administrative privileges

Traefik Proxy for Home Assistant on LAN IP

This guide explains how to set up Traefik as a reverse proxy for Home Assistant running on a local network IP. It includes creating a dataset for Traefik configs, setting up a Docker Compose file, creating the necessary Docker volume and network, and configuring Home Assistant to trust the proxy.

1. Create a Docker Network

Before running the Traefik stack, create a Docker network that Traefik will use:

docker network create traefik_proxy

Remove IP Ban in Home Assistant OS on TrueNAS Scale VM

This guide explains how to access the TrueNAS Scale VM's serial shell, delete the ip_bans.yaml file in Home Assistant OS, and optionally edit configuration.yaml.

Accessing the Serial Shell in TrueNAS Scale VM

Open TrueNAS Scale UI:
- Log into your TrueNAS Scale dashboard.
Navigate to Virtual Machines:

High Availability

This document is intended to facilitate discussions and promote industry best practices for cloud-based services to achieve a resilient posture, or high availability. Achieving a highly resilient posture means being prepared for all kinds of failures such as natural disasters, security breaches, network failures, software bugs, high traffic loads, unexpected user behaviors, and the capacity to handle the unexpected gracefully and lightning fast. High availability is the product of coordinated efforts in people, processes, and technical strategy, including but not limited to,

Disaster Recovery strategy (ranging from backups to full active/active multi-cloud deployments)
Continuous deployment (infrastructure-as-code, automated unit/integration/load testing, staggered deployments to multiple regions with bake-time and rollback alarms)
Observability (covering KPIs, health indicators, and assum

Installing Home Assistant OS in a VM on TrueNAS SCALE

This guide provides detailed steps to install Home Assistant OS (HAOS) in a Virtual Machine (VM) on TrueNAS SCALE.

Organizing a TypeScript Project

	git_branch_status() {
	# Define colors
	local GREEN="\033[0;32m"
	local RED="\033[0;31m"
	local YELLOW="\033[0;33m"
	local CYAN="\033[0;36m"
	local RESET="\033[0m"

	# Get current and default branches
	local CURRENT_BRANCH=$(git branch --show-current)

	midclt call vm.query \| jq -r '
	.[] \|
	select(.status.state=="RUNNING") \|
	.devices[] \|
	select(.dtype=="NIC") \|
	.attributes.mac' \| while read -r mac; do
	echo -n "$mac: "
	arp -a \| grep -i "$mac" \| awk '{print $1, $2}'
	done

	# Creates a feature branch with date-indexed naming based on $USER.
	# Add this function to your .bashrc or .zshrc file for easy access in every terminal session.
	#
	# Example:
	# If $USER is "ckrauter" and today is 2024-11-08:
	# Running `fb` creates a branch like `feature/ckrauter/2024-11-08/1`.
	# Running `fb utils package` creates `feature/ckrauter/utils-package/2024-11-08/1`.

	feature_branch() {
	local main_branch="main"

	NEW_AUTHOR_NAME="John Doe"
	NEW_AUTHOR_EMAIL="[email protected]" # Private Git Email

	# Start filter-branch to rewrite the author information for all commits
	git filter-branch -f --env-filter '

	CORRECT_NAME="'"$NEW_AUTHOR_NAME"'"
	CORRECT_EMAIL="'"$NEW_AUTHOR_EMAIL"'"

	export GIT_COMMITTER_NAME="$CORRECT_NAME"