SNMP Trap Monitoring With Zabbix - "It's a (SNMP) Trap !" So this post is the result of spending some time (more than I care to admit) working out how to get SNMP traps sent by an application (Veeam Backup & Recovery) inside my homelab into Zabbix monitoring. Why would you do this ? Well, there are a couple of reasons you
Home Assistant - Tasmota & ESP Sensors (Part 3) Download the ESP Flasher Tool from https://github.com/Jason2866/ESP_Flasher/releases. We'll start off with an ESP32, there is a good comparison of the differences between the ESP8266 and ESP32 here https://makeradvisor.com/esp32-vs-esp8266/. Download the latest Tasmota firmware binary from https://tasmota.github.io/
Home Assistant - Install MQTT (Part 2) Okay, assuming you've got Home Assistant installed and working, lets install the MQTT message broker. This is the heart of the system used for communicating messages and data between the IoT devices and the Home Assistant system. First open the "Settings" from the bottom left and
Home Assistant Installation - Raspberry Pi (Part 1) This covers the basic installation steps to get Home Assistant running on the Raspberry Pi. Head ove r to https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/ and get the Raspberry Pi Imager installed for your OS. At the time of writing the latest version is 1.7.5. Run the application and
