Creating our Floorplan or Animated House Plan in Home Assistant

In this post we are going to try to explain how we can make a plan of our house and integrate it into Home Assistant, with the intention of integrating the devices that we already have in Hassio and giving life to the plan. It is something very attractive and above all visual, It is something they will appreciate at home, since with an image we can see the state of our home and we can interact from it with the devices that we add.

A podcast for IT – How to enable remote work in the company

You have at your disposal the second episode of A Podcast for YOU, where Fede Cinalli and I will give continuity to the first talk we had. Basically because we fall short of expectations, And one thing was that companies could use it and another what has happened this week, that all companies close due to the coronavirus except for the fundamental ones and those that can telework, is your company out? So we have been forced to comment a bit on what options there are and what companies are doing today…

A podcast for IT – Teleworking in times of Coronavirus

Very good tod@s! I wanted to introduce you “A podcast for IT”, as its name suggests, it is a podcast oriented to Information Technologies, where I have the pleasure of sharing the stage with Fede Cinalli. We will share talks, We will open debates, We'll have plenty of guests, Because that's the idea! That we can have that little time where we talk about everything and for everyone!

Monitoring MySQL database queries using Centreon

Another marvel of monitoring with Centreon, is that it allows us to make queries to any type of database, in this post we will see how to query a MySQL database, We can launch any type of query that helps us to know the state or value that interests us, then we will be able to know that there are no blockages or that 'something’ He has not stopped writing on his table…

Managing OS Layers, platform, apps and user with Citrix App Layering

Citrix App Layering is a new solution from Citrix for designing our OS layers., Software or User Data. In January 2017 Citrix acquired Unidesk, in order to have a tool that allows us to reduce the number of images to be kept, both in desktop pool environments and RDHS servers. We will arrange the OS in separate layers, the tools and drivers that are needed, as well as isolating each app in different layers; which we can then associate and deliver as we see fit, either per user or per VDA machine. We will be able to have a single layer of our corporate Windows, that when we need to update we will do it only once, and we will display it to the rest of the images.

Taking LED strips to another dimension with WLED and LedFx, NodeMCU and Home Assistant

Well, This post is loaded, where we are going to see different products that also combine them make magic. We're going to connect a WS2812B LED strip to a NodeMCU and load WLED to get some really cool effects, we will also mount LedFx to move the LEDs with audio and we will end up presenting everything through Home Assistant for home automation control.