How to Toot Trending Topics With Node-RED and Mastodon API
How to toot out the trending tags on the Fediverse with the Mastodon API and Node-RED. We can call the API and send back a toot of the top tag
12/04/2020Using MotionEye and Node-RED to Send Images and Video to Mastodon
One of the easiest ways to take advantage of the automation that MotionEye gives you is to call a webhook when MotionEye senses motion on one of the cameras.
11/30/2020Using the Yi Cam Outdoor with MotionEye and Home Assistant
If you have hacked the Yi Cam Outdoor you can setup RTSP streaming to MotionEye for motion detection and view RTSP in the Home Assistant’s UI
11/28/2020The Easiest Path to Home Automation – Part III – Making Your Smart Home Smarter With Sensors
I want to jump into a more advanced topic, but bypass some of the arguments that come with a lot of home automation setups. We’ll forgo the discussion of Zigbee vs. Z-Wave, and furthermore we’ll not even go down the path of discussing the best zigbee, z-wave or other home hub integration setup with Home …
11/28/2020The Easiest Path to Home Automation – Part II – Configuring Home Assistant
Now that we followed the guide in Part I we have Home Assistant running with Docker and at this point can visit the running container in our browser. This is the fun part, when we get to start setting up and configuring Home Assistant. And it couldn’t be easier, we just point out browser to …
11/28/2020The Easiest Path to Home Automation – Part I – Getting Started With Home Assistant
There was a time in my life where I had a lot of down time and needed a new hobby – and no, this wasn’t because of COVID-19. Because I like to tinker with the Raspberry Pi someone suggested to me a Pi distribution that promised to give me home automation. That, however, didn’t work …
11/27/2020
Lame: World of Warcraft Shadowlands
Good job Blizzard on more of the same. Each time I log into World of Warcraft it just feels lame. Shadowlands is the newest expansion and after 16 years this is no exception to what they’ve given us with prior expansions. World of Warcraft is lame and so is the Shadowlands expansion. What’s broken? The …
11/26/2020
Hosting Your Own Wiki With MediaWiki and Docker
Here at Kinda Lame, we like self hosting things – being in control of our own software. There are too many cool projects out there to not take some time to play with and get your hands dirty. And one of the coolest projects out there is the ability to self-host MediaWiki software that lets …
11/25/2020
Not Lame: Mastodon & The Fediverse
For full disclosure, I should say that I run three social networks now and they all run on the Mastodon platform, I’ve installed all three. I am biased, I’m not running Diaspora or anything else and I’m not running a forum on an established commercial website. And frankly on Mastodon all I do is run …
11/23/2020
The Fictional Wiki
Announcing the 4QQ Wiki, an investigative and fictional wiki meant to tell a story about time. The focus of the wiki will be on a fictional story told from the perspective of John Lamar an enterprising and young scientist exploring archeology and stories of a hidden past.
11/22/2020