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Monitor home and just about everything with Zabbix and Grafana

Part 14: Did you really turn off your camera?

By whatsuphome | 11:54 AM EEST, Fri June 17, 2022
Hey that's me

Can you monitor your webcam activity with Zabbix? Of course you can! By day, I work as a monitoring technical lead in a global cyber security company. By night, I monitor my home with Zabbix & Grafana and do some weird experiments with them. Welcome to my weekly blog about this project.

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Part 13: Living inside an audio bubble

By whatsuphome | 11:52 AM EEST, Fri June 10, 2022
Raimo!

Can you monitor your Bluetooth headset usage hours with Zabbix? Of course you can! By day, I earn living by being a monitoring tech lead in a global cyber security company. By night, I monitor my home with Zabbix and Grafana and do some weird experiments with them. Welcome to my weekly blog about how I monitor my home.

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Part 12: Time to get Sirious

By whatsuphome | 11:50 AM EEST, Thu June 02, 2022
It's important to get the most critical data easily

Can you integrate Zabbix with Siri? Of course you can! By day, I am a monitoring tech lead in a global cyber security company. By night, I monitor my home with Zabbix & Grafana and do some weird experiments with them. Welcome to my weekly blog about the home project.

I have lost the count exactly when, but couple of major iOS/macOS versions ago Apple's Siri gained the Shortcuts application. It allows you to automate all kinds of stuff and do some drag-and-drop 'programming'.

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Part 11: Say cheese!

By whatsuphome | 11:49 AM EEST, Fri May 27, 2022
Get your Selenium

Can you take screenshots of your monitored websites with Zabbix? Of course you can! By day, I earn my living by being a monitoring tech lead in a global cyber security company. By night, I monitor my home. Welcome to my weekly blog about how I monitor my home with Zabbix & Grafana and do some weird experiments with them.

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Part 10: The relaxing breeze

By whatsuphome | 11:46 AM EEST, Wed May 18, 2022
AC, send me your MQTT events

Can you monitor a home air conditioner with Zabbix? Of course you can! By day, I am a monitoring tech lead in a global cyber security company. By night, I monitor my home. Welcome to my weekly blog about how I monitor my home with Zabbix & Grafana and do some weird experiments.

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Part 9: Remotely useful

By whatsuphome | 11:45 AM EEST, Wed May 11, 2022
Not even remotely funny caption

Can you integrate Zabbix with a remote control? Of course you can! Does that make any sense? Maybe. Welcome to my weekly blog about how I monitor my home with Zabbix & Grafana and how I do weird experiments with my setup.

By day, I do monitoring for living in a global cyber security company. By night, I monitor my home. This week I have been mostly doing remote work… gaining physical remote access… okay, my puns are not even remotely funny, but please keep on reading to find out how I integrated my Zabbix with a remote control.

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Part 8: Razor-sharp thinking

By whatsuphome | 10:59 AM EEST, Thu May 05, 2022
TV ping

Can you monitor a Philips OneBlade shaver with Zabbix? Of course you can! But why to do that and how to monitor a dumb device with zero IoT capabilities? Welcome to my weekly blog: I get my bread and butter by being a monitoring tech lead in a global cyber security company, but I monitor my home for fun with Zabbix & Grafana and do some weird experiments.

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Part 7: Welcome to my Zabbixverse

By whatsuphome | 10:56 AM EEST, Thu April 28, 2022
Zabbix with Blender

By day, I am a monitoring technical lead in a global cyber security company. By night, I monitor my home with Zabbix and Grafana in very creative ways. But what has Zabbix to do with Blender 3D software or virtual reality? Read on.

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Part 6: Observe!

By whatsuphome | 10:53 AM EEST, Fri April 22, 2022
TV ping

By day, I monitor a global cyber security company for a living. By night, I monitor my home with Zabbix and Grafana. In this weekly blog series I'm sharing my weird experiments and new ideas how to utilise monitoring.

As on Easter we were not at home but doing Easter stuff, this week I have not implemented any major functionality to my home monitoring environment. But while I'm brewing new weird features, here's some bits and pieces of what I have learned about my home, and not shown here earlier.

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Part 5: Use the Zabbix, Luke

By whatsuphome | 10:51 AM EEST, Thu April 14, 2022
Long time ago in a home office very near to me

Welcome to my weekly blog about how I monitor my home with Zabbix. Like Batman, I have a casual day job as a monitoring tech lead, and by night I tinker around with my home Zabbix. (Except that Batman does not do monitoring, or who knows)

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  • Began with computers in 1986 with C64
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