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You probably found that it is not that easy to overwrite the default Docker container command if you are running it in your Synology NAS. Maybe you came across the following error: “Unable to perform this operation, possibly the network connection is unstable or the system is busy. Please try again later.” Actually, this error […]
With more than 4 Million shops WooCommerce is one of the most popular ecommerce solutions world wide. WooCommerce is an Open Source solution operating on top of WordPress and is therefore easily accessible to hundreds of millions of people. WooCommerce offers a wide range of features that are necessary to operate a successful ecommerce web […]
Android 11 onwards introduced several more restrictive policies for applications to access the local storage. It is necessary to request the users permission for access in the context of usage not only to declare the access rights in the Android manifest file. See the Android error message below: Some storage directories are accessible nevertheless, such […]
For years, I have been struggling with my network camera and its inability to correctly detect motion without generating a storm of false positive images. No matter how I configure the sensitivity of my camera, it is generating thousands of false-positive motion pictures each single day. It seems as if the motion detection intelligence within […]
This short story starts with an accidental discovery of how frequent Log4Shell attacks are executed against businesses and public internet services in general. During my daily work at Dynatrace I come to test a lot of software services along with closely observing those through the eyes of a monitoring platform vendor. I am running a […]
Renewable energy and intelligent management of private and industrial energy consumption are prominent topics today. In a recent post I did show how to use a DIY ESP8266 sensor in combination with Home Assistant in order to collect real time data about your energy consumption as well as about the amount of energy that you […]
Running Home Assistant Open Source home automation locally offers great advantages, such as optimizing your own energy usage or to simply automate boring and repetitive tasks. In case you own a Synology network disks, such as the Synology Diskmanager DS218+ you can directly run Docker containers on your local network disk and therefore also run […]
Observability and monitoring of software service infrastructure is the basis for modern Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and to successfully run and scale your IT infrastructure. As the digital transformation of business processes and the shift towards highly dynamic cloud infrastructures keeps on accelerating, the dependency on human operation teams poses a critical bottleneck. Especially with […]
In my recent blog on Open Source Home Energy Management with Home Assistant I wrote about how Home Assistant helps you to monitor and optimize your own home energy consumption. Within this blog post I will show how an ESP8266 Wifi enabled Siemens AMIS reader can be used to monitor the energy that your home […]
With the current war in Ukraine, energy prices surge to unbelievable heights. The European countries do rely on Russia’s cheap gas and oil for much too long a time. Even without the Russian war, it was pretty much clear for years that with the looming climate change there is no alternative as to completely switch […]