cozify

When leaving your home, the traditional background chatterbox in your head can be thinking things like "Did I lock the front door?", "Did I turn off the oven?" and so forth. 

With an IoT hub like Cozify, there's another one. For example, if my parents -- who are not very technological -- will come to our house to entertain and look after the puppy whilst we are somewhere away with my wife and our toddler, without Zabbix my head would think "Did I remember to switch Cozify to such mode that it won't change the Home scene status to Away scene?". 

(I'll be posting this kind of short, almost tweet-like news to this blog, as here it feels natural and comfortable, on LinkedIn I would feel like a spammer)

I got Cozify write operations working! Some time around Christmas I realised that underneath the unofficial Cozify API Python library does support write operations after all, it's just that its documentation does not reflect that.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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)

Can you monitor the regular use of facial cream with Zabbix? Of course you can! Here's how. This same method could be very useful for monitoring if the elderly remember to take their meds or so.

(I am posting my weekly Friday blog about how I monitor my home with Zabbix & Grafana a day early, as today I'll be working in the evening and have my morning free, and not so sure about tomorrow. Originally my plan was to write about something completely else, but this was too good to skip.)

In this weekly Friday blog series I am showing you how I am monitoring my home with Zabbix and Grafana. The whole project is my fun recently started hobby and is already beyond what I originally was aiming for.

New to series? Then please first read part 1 and part 2.

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Last week I wrote about how I monitor my home with Zabbix. This week, I am showing how I utilise Grafana to visualise the data collected by Zabbix and what are my plans to further improve all this.