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Over the past few years, I’ve developed a strong interest in home automation. For example, Home Assistant automatically controls the interior climate by managing the thermostats, opening and closing blinds, and running expeller fans to manage humidity. After installing a Fantech Hero HRV to improve interior air quality, I was disappointed to find there was no existing Home Assistant integration. My goal was to integrate the HRV into the automation system to optimize comfort and energy use: vent the minimal amount required to maintain air quality, while taking into account temperature set points, humidity, and outdoor air quality.

OVH provides a secondary DNS service for its VPS customers (docs), however you must enable zone transfers to their server (sdns1.ovh.ca)

When I was attempting to build a new RAID-1 array on a DSM-323, I was getting brutal performance. Tweaking speed_limit_min helped significantly.

I was getting the following error while creating a Cpanel WHM server with mod_ruid2 and mod_security2

Enable HHVM debugging in PhpStorm

Rather than adding a composer.phar file to each project it can be easier to install composer to your linux distribution’s bin folder.

How to hide author pages from authenticated users on a WordPress site.

Determine your GitLab version from the command line

zfc-user-doctrine-orm Is a Zend Framework 2 Module that enables Doctrine 2 support for the ZfcUser module.

If you are using the Zend Zerver Installation on the OpenShift cloud and happen to forget your password, you may find yourself wondering where gui_passwrd.sh is located.