Power & ISP Outages While at work, I received a notification at 14:35 local time from my power company that there was an outage in my area. I then received a notification at 15:50 that the power was back up. I also received notification from my ISP reporting an outage at 15:45 local due to the power outage, which is weird, but after I got home, I could see multiple occurrences of losing connectivity to my ISP in the UDM. ...
There is a lot of data that I want to collect that my sensors can’t. With automation and machine learning application being the goal, I want to gather as much data as I possibly can to really create a complete picture of events in the yard. Snow events are one example of that, so that’s where I started. I again used Python, FastAPI, and uvicorn to define some API endpoints on the same Pi that runs my Ecowitt ingest API. Just like the Ecowitt ingest, I’ll make this API a service also. The difference with this one though is that when the endpoint is requested in the browser, an HTML form is presented. ...
Grafana is a tool that allows you to build dashboards to visualize data. I haven’t gone too deep into the full capabilities yet, but I wanted a way to display the weather data from my database without reinventing the wheel and building dashboards manually myself. Install & Config Grafana is available as an app on TrueNAS SCALE, which is the OS that runs on my NAS. In the configuration, I’ll select “Publish port on the host for external access” for the Port Bind Mode in the network configuration so other hosts on my LAN can access the Grafana web UI with the default port 3000. Timescale and Portainer are using different ports, so I’ll have no conflicts between the three services and all can be accessed via their respective ports on the NAS IP (and hostname down the road when I get around to setting up Pi-hole). For the host IP, I’ll select ‘0.0.0.0’ (aka any) IP address because TrueNAS isn’t allowing me to select the host IP, but I’ve got traffic locked down pretty well with my VLAN and firewall rules setup. ...