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Last time, I explored how to post data to a Home Assistant endpoint so I could use a sensor to accept the data and then have a display space on one of my devices display the accepted data, after transferring it so it could be formatted correctly for the viewing.
Since then, Elon's Folly appears to have actually moved API access to the tier of "paid rube," so I had to clean up the running automations so the indicator lights weren't fetching something that didn't work for us any more. It's too bad that such a low data use was still being thrown out with all the other projects, but someone has realized that the amount of money they need to keep the social media platforms going is far more than they would be able to raise by other means, especially when that platform keeps turning into the kind of place that the advertisers want to flee in droves. And even more so now that the "we're actually the people we claim to be" system has been chaosified. In any case, the point is one of the indicator lights bit it because Elon is desperately trying to make money that he isn't going to make.
( Building an automatic updater for a Pi-Hole )
And there we have it! I've successfully set something up to automate making sure my Pi-Hole stays up-to-date, thanks to information that it already provides through its API and a little fancy pipe wielding and bash scripting. I feel like I could do a fair amount of these things for other bits of systems, especially if I worked out how to safely and securely pass in an appropriate password without it existing as cleartext in the script or anywhere else. That said, many of the systems I might want to deploy such automation on are the kind that will bite me in the ass with something that needs an interactive component or that will engage in breaking changes that have to be carefully navigated around to ensure they don't break the system.
[VICTORY FANFARE]
( Assorted tech misc, etc. )
Since then, Elon's Folly appears to have actually moved API access to the tier of "paid rube," so I had to clean up the running automations so the indicator lights weren't fetching something that didn't work for us any more. It's too bad that such a low data use was still being thrown out with all the other projects, but someone has realized that the amount of money they need to keep the social media platforms going is far more than they would be able to raise by other means, especially when that platform keeps turning into the kind of place that the advertisers want to flee in droves. And even more so now that the "we're actually the people we claim to be" system has been chaosified. In any case, the point is one of the indicator lights bit it because Elon is desperately trying to make money that he isn't going to make.
( Building an automatic updater for a Pi-Hole )
And there we have it! I've successfully set something up to automate making sure my Pi-Hole stays up-to-date, thanks to information that it already provides through its API and a little fancy pipe wielding and bash scripting. I feel like I could do a fair amount of these things for other bits of systems, especially if I worked out how to safely and securely pass in an appropriate password without it existing as cleartext in the script or anywhere else. That said, many of the systems I might want to deploy such automation on are the kind that will bite me in the ass with something that needs an interactive component or that will engage in breaking changes that have to be carefully navigated around to ensure they don't break the system.
[VICTORY FANFARE]
( Assorted tech misc, etc. )
