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Today Forcepoint's Finland team had our Community Service Day, during which we do something good for our communities. Much of the team went for example to donate blood or do some outdoor activities, like helping to clean parks and beaches.

I decided to help one of our local businesses. Not giving out its name because that would immediately reveal where I live. Anyway, the business owners were totally impressed that someone would offer them support like this for free.

As my home monitoring experiment has become such celebrity and as it has so much going on, I'm trying to make sure I won't ever lose its configuration and data, no matter what would happen. Here's some tips and reminders for you, too.

Can you verify if your iPhone battery drains faster during summer compared to other seasons with Zabbix? Of course you can! 

Since the Zabbix Summit 2023 page seems to list me already, I'll go public here, too: I will again be a speaker at the Zabbix Summit in 2023. See you in Riga in October!

I've been a bit silent here lately. But don't you worry, I'm not getting bored or abandoning this blog. Instead I got a motivation to improve my Zabbix <--> Blender 3D integration from last year. Here's a quick teaser on how it looks like.

When reading this blog, you could easily think that everything is smooth sailing all the time. No. When you monitor your home IoT -- or frankly, just USE your home IoT -- you have plenty of small details to watch out for. I list them for you, so you don't have to find them out the hard way like I've done over this 1+ year of journey.

Can you create a radio station with Zabbix? Of course you can! Have you ever wondered what kind of theme song an AI would write about Zabbix? Or how it would sound like if someone would sing your Zabbix alerts? Then keep on reading.

Can you monitor an USB-connected printer with Zabbix? Of course you can! But can ChatGPT help setting up the monitoring? Well... erm... maybe! By day, I am a Lead Site Reliability Engineer in a global cyber security company, Forcepoint. By night, I monitor my home with Zabbix & Grafana and do some weird experiments with them. Welcome to my blog about the project.

Can you monitor your mobile data usage with Zabbix? Of course you can! 
 

As it is Easter, this entry is a bit short but as I was remoting into my home systems over VPN and my phone, I got this blog post idea. 

When on the go, I tend to stay connected to my home network over VPN. Or rather, an iOS Shortcut pretty much runs OpenVPN home profile for me whenever I exit my home. 
 

I've been busy as a bee, so I've been unable to post new content here... anyway can you imagine it's been more than one year of What's up, home? already?! Time flies! 

To celebrate that, here's a proof of how bad I am still with remembering to apply my facial cream. Check out this SLA report for some recent weeks. I still get alerted about it and still after an alert it can go for long enough that my SLA can be really bad. Uh oh. Maybe on one day I'll learn.