Matt The Horwood

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  • You need some automations to run if any of the exterior sensors change state, if they do save snapshots of exterior cameras and send you an alert. Once you get the alert you can then call the police if you think you need to, or in most cases just see that its the postie.

    I have an automation run when both me and my wife are away that will turn off all lights and turn on 2 automations, the 2 automations are if motion on the drive send me a photo and if the exterior door sensors change state send an alert




  • I would echo that, I’ve been a generalist computer whatnot for over 10 years. I have had to learn to network, virtual network with VMware. Manage Linux servers, then virtual servers. Switch from VMware to aws and understand basic terraform, with ansible learning as well.

    Where I work we are on ansible repo 3 I think, as we have matured in how we use it and what works and what doesn’t.

    When homelabing, you get to be all the things a big company would have job roles for.