Part 16: Record your Roomba dance

Can you monitor your several years old dumb Roomba iRobot vacuum cleaner with Zabbix? Of course you can! By day, I am a monitoring technical lead in a global cyber security company. By night, I monitor my home with Zabbix & Grafana and make weird experiments with them. Welcome to my weekly blog about this project.

Part 15: A pawesome bedtime story

Can you monitor your dogs' sleeping habits with Zabbix? Of course you can! By day, I am 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.

(Posting super early this week, as later this week Finland will enjoy the mid-summer festival so I will be away from keyboard)

Part 14: Did you really turn off your camera?

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.

Part 13: Living inside an audio bubble

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.

Part 12: Time to get Sirious

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'.

Part 11: Say cheese!

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.

Part 9: Remotely useful

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.

Part 8: Razor-sharp thinking

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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