Query the hidden API of your SENEC photovoltaic appliances

For a personal project I wanted to show the current status of a photovoltaic system made by Senec on a small display in the living room. Till then I used an old Android smartphone with a disabled screensaver, which showed the local webinterface. To get to the webinterface in a…

Stop HDDs spinning up on ssh login in Ubuntu server

Please see Update at the bottom! (04.01.2023) Ever wondered why your harddrives are spinniung up nearly everytime you login to your homeserver over ssh? fsck is the culprit! Well kind of. Everytime you login to Ubuntu via ssh, you get a nice overview of your system. (example below)…

librespot: headless Spotify Connect client in docker

Since I am also using my small homeserver as a Media Player for my TV with Kodi I always wanted it be able to act as an Spotify Connect client. This way I could just use any device (smartphone, notebook, browser,...) to control my music. The server is running 24h…