Its been awhile since I posted but I found a neat little trick to send a Telegram alert when a user logs in via SSH to one of my VPS’s. Its pretty simple so it doesn’t take too long to setup. Step 1: Create the Telegram Bot You will need to message @BotFather to get… Read more »
Category: Tutorial
Reverse Engineering the iHome iSP5 SmartPlug Communications
I got a couple of the iHome iSP5 Smart Plugs and wanted to integrate them into OpenHAB. This is just some rough digging I have done so far in the communications between the phone app and their server. Part 2, if I get to it will look at the communications between the server and the… Read more »
Seagate Backup Plus 4tb External Drive Disassembly
I picked up a few of Seagate Backup Plus 4tb drives at Walmart for an incredible price the other day. My plan is to replace the 2tb drives in my fileserver so I needed to remove the case. I first did some testing to make sure it wasn’t DOA before I started to take it… Read more »
Rainmeter Google Traffic Estimation Skin
For anyone who has wondered how to have a meter on your desktop to estimate time in traffic to a set destination, its actually very easy. I have created a demo on how to do this in the attached ZIP file. You need to fill in the configuration with a google maps API key as… Read more »
How to Add/Remove Additional Users to OpenVPN
To continue on from the previous tutorial on setting up OpenVPN on Ubuntu we will now see what is required to add and remove users on our server. Adding Users A lot of the steps are the same as creating the initial installation so it should look pretty familiar. Lets assume our new client is called… Read more »