Florian Wartner // Developer, Father, Nerd

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My transition to Home Assistant (Yep. It's true.)

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My transition to Home Assistant (Yep. It's true.)

I finally did it. I moved a while ago from completely running on HomeKit (Using HomeBridge) to Home Assistant. And there's a good reason for.. 💡Some of the links are affiliate links to products, I use in my Smart Home. By buying these products via the links, supports me with

Guest Mode in HomeKit #shorts

Guest Mode in HomeKit #shorts

How to IoT your (mid-distance) relationship

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How to IoT your (mid-distance) relationship

How to save money with a Smarthome

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How to save money with a Smarthome

n8n - Automation for almost everything

n8n - Automation for almost everything

Nowadays you can automate a lot. Not just your own home. Also workflows that are executed when you write a new blog post, for example (like I do here, for example...). There are tons of tools out there that can help you automate some of the tasks of everyday life,

Your own VPN in the Homelab

Your own VPN in the Homelab

Your own VPN in the Homelab Everyone is talking about VPNs these days. They help us access our files in the office when we are working from home or encrypt data traffic when we are on public hotspots. But why do you always have to pay money for a VPN

Your own home lab quickly and easily

Your own home lab quickly and easily

Your own home lab quickly and easily As you already know, among other things, I host this website here at my home in my homelab. This homelab is essentially based on Docker (Swarm) and some manual work. Why set up your own home lab? Well yes.. There are many different

Why a 3D Printer can safe you money

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Why a 3D Printer can safe you money

Almost a year ago, I was sitting in a friend's café with my best friend and we came up with the idea of developing an automatic feeder for our cats. Being tech savvy and able to do some soldering, all I needed for this project was a case, a few

Monitor your Homelab with UptimeKuma

Monitor your Homelab with UptimeKuma

I have some services running in my homelab that like to fail. I use UptimeKuma to always know when which service is offline and when. Here's a live status page: https://status.wartner.io (Actually hosted on my homelab) What is UptimeKuma? It is a self-hosted monitoring tool like "Uptime

Easily share Zigbee Devices between HomeAssistant & Homebridge

Easily share Zigbee Devices between HomeAssistant & Homebridge

In my smarthome I mostly use HomeKit for managing my devices such as blinds, lights or create routines and automations. But I also use HomeAssistant for my dashboard in my hallway on a wall-mounted tablet. I had a bunch of bridges from all kinds of manufacturers but sometimes I had

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