Automation on John Kuruvilahttps://blog.akjohn.dev/tags/automation/Recent content in Automation on John KuruvilaHugoenFri, 02 Aug 2024 09:28:07 +0530Home Assistant Sleep Trackinghttps://blog.akjohn.dev/novelty-projects/home-assistant-sleep-tracking/Fri, 02 Aug 2024 09:28:07 +0530https://blog.akjohn.dev/novelty-projects/home-assistant-sleep-tracking/I use the Sleep as Android App to track my sleep every day. It’s an amazing app with a great UI and integrates with a lot of stuff like Tasker and Home Assistant. Since I run a Home Assistant instance at home, I decided to go with the later. Integrating Sleep as Android with Home Assistant is done using MQTT. We setup an MQTT server in Home Assistant. If you’re running HassOS, it’s as simple as installing the MQTT add-on from the Add-On store.WhatsApp About Automationhttps://blog.akjohn.dev/novelty-projects/whatsapp-status/Wed, 31 Jul 2024 23:55:12 +0530https://blog.akjohn.dev/novelty-projects/whatsapp-status/This is a fun little script that I wrote one evening. It makes use of whatsapp-web.js. The script will update your ‘about’ to Day <number_of_days_since_you_were_born> every day at midnight. Here’s a link to the Github repository: https://github.com/JohnKuruvila/whatsapp-about-automation Displaying the number of days I’ve lived seemed like a cool idea. But I did have a few other ideas too: Display my current real life status. I could fetch data from my Home Assistant instance and dynamically change my WhatsApp about based on my location, current activity or something similar.Creating a CI/CD Pipeline using Jenkins and Docker for this Bloghttps://blog.akjohn.dev/blog/creating-a-ci-cd-pipeline-for-this-blog/Wed, 10 Jul 2024 18:01:13 +0530https://blog.akjohn.dev/blog/creating-a-ci-cd-pipeline-for-this-blog/This is part of a series of blog posts I’m writing about hosting this blog from my homelab. You can find part 1 here: Hosting a blog from your Homelab My current workflow for creating a new blog post is this: Run a Hugo command to create a new markdown file. Write my content in the file. Run the hugo command to generate the build files. Run a command to create a new docker image based on httpd which will serve the build files.