Onkyo Receiver Service Monitoring and remediation with Python/Grafana/InfluxDB and Vera

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Background If you have an Onkyo receiver, you probably notice odd issues with the network stack at times, causing various services (Spotify, DLNA, Etc) to stop responding to requests. The only resolution for fixing this state on the receiver is a physical power cycle (A soft reboot will not work). This is a well documented …

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Monitoring your APC UPS with the TICK Stack and Grafana

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Recently I acquired a second hand APC Smart-UPS 3000. With the cheap addition of a network module SNMP V2/V3 support is easily added to this unit. The next step is setting up monitoring. To do this I’m going to use parts of the TICK stack, primarily Telegraf (for polling and data collection) and Influxdb (for …

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Checking your snail mail with Python/Docker and Slack. (Part 2)

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Packaging Python scripts with Docker In Part 1 of this post I covered the creation of the initial MyUsps notification script. There’s quite a few dependencies in the environment required for running this script. At a bare minimum you will need a functional Linux or Windows environment with the following dependencies GeckoDriver Firefox v59 Selenium …

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Checking your snail mail with Python/Docker and Slack. (Part 1)

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Background Recently I became aware of a service for USPS called “Informed Delivery”. This service will allow you to view mail items coming to your physical mailbox before they arrive, as well as a get an email with the same information. This is a very cool service but unfortunately there is no way to get …

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