Markus Lippert

As Helm just released the first stable version of Chart Releaser, it’s worth to take a look at how it helps you to easily host Helm Charts using GitHub Releases, GitHub Pages and GitHub Actions. [Read More]

Let’s Encrypt offers free certificates for securing your website with TLS. It uses the ACME protocol to fully automate the certification process. There are many different clients supporting the ACME protocol and also Synology provides a client to automatically issue and renew Let’s Encrypt certificates via DSM for your NAS.... [Read More]

As consumer products for multiroom audio solutions are either expensive, limited in their functionality or sooner or later won’t receive further updates, like recently the legacy Sonos devices, it’s worth to have a look at more flexible solutions. [Read More]

I already quickly introduced openHAB in a previous post and over the past years it evolved a lot. Next to the support for a lot of smart devices it also enables the integration with various assistants, making your Smart Home even more convenient and fun. [Read More]

There are a whole lot of instructions on how to set up a DIY ambilight for your TV. However, most of the instructions grab the video signal via an HDMI splitter in combination with an HDMI to RCA/AV converter. This means that you can only use the ambilight with external... [Read More]