Nick Shores

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

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

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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