James Loh jloh

Read all the comments first - there are a number of corrections and important points in the comment section

This is a summarized guide I created while installing Firefly-III in a Proxmox (6.2-15) container running Ubuntu 20.04.

I followed this tutorial. It has a link to this other tutorial for installing mariaDB. Furthermore, the official Firefly-iii documentation is Here .

This guide has everything I did in one concise summary. Not much is explained. This will take about 1.5 hrs.

Note: I initially followed the official instructions and used a LAMP stack. I had issues with apache and getting the webserver to work (likely because I am not familiar with apache and am more comfortable with nginx).

Linux simple performance tweaks

Change the I/O Scheduler

Open $ vim /etc/default/grub then add elevator=noop next to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT. Run $ update-grub and $ cat /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler to be sure that noop is being used:

$ vim /etc/default/grub
$ update-grub
$ cat /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler

[noop] deadline cfq

	alias: Bedroom - Electric Blanket Question 2130
	description: "Prompts to turn the electric blanket on if the temperature is below 13 deg C at 2130 and I'm home."
	trigger:
	- platform: time
	at: "21:30:00"
	condition:
	- condition: zone
	entity_id: person.me
	zone: zone.home
	- condition: template

	/* See Tweet thread for info on the use of this file: https://twitter.com/TfTHacker/status/1588781787865808897?s=20&t=iDq6L-u4SHnJ5UfN0r7yzQ */

	/* I am not a CSS dude, so no promises this is well written CSS */

	.nav-folder-title {
	font-weight: 600 !important;
	color:steelblue;
	}

	[data-path="Teaching"] > .nav-folder-title-content::before {

	# Convert from H264 to H265
	ffmpeg -i in.mov -c:v libx265 -an -x265-params crf=20 output.mp4

	# Tag as HVC instead of HEV1 so iOS can play it
	ffmpeg -i output.mp4 -vcodec copy -acodec copy -tag:v hvc1 output2.mp4

	# Bonus: it can take a second to play (no more than H264) so here's how to generate
	# a thumbnail of the first frame to embed in your view as a placeholder.
	ffmpeg -i output2.mp4 -vf "select=eq(n\,34)" -vframes 1 thumbnail.png

	#!/bin/bash
	curl -X POST "https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/zones/{$ZONE_ID}/purge_cache" \
	-H "X-Auth-Email: {$EMAIL}" \
	-H "X-Auth-Key: {$API_KEY}" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{"purge_everything":true}'

	# Add this snippet to the top of your playbook.
	# It will install python2 if missing (but checks first so no expensive repeated apt updates)
	# [email protected]

	- hosts: all
	gather_facts: False

	tasks:
	- name: install python 2
	raw: test -e /usr/bin/python \|\| (apt -y update && apt install -y python-minimal)

	# use ImageMagick convert
	# the order is important. the density argument applies to input.pdf and resize and rotate to output.pdf
	convert -density 90 input.pdf -rotate 0.5 -attenuate 0.2 +noise Multiplicative -colorspace Gray output.pdf