Uploading installers to Azure Blob for NinjaOne Remote Deployments

This guide will show you how to upload software installers to an Azure blob, which we then use with our RMM tool NinjaOne. The reason we are doing it this way (instead of uploading the file in NinjaOne directly), is because some software is larger than the max file size limit in NinjaOne. By putting…

Display Picture-in-Picture Live Camera Feeds on Nvidia Shield using Home Assistant

Display Picture-in-Picture Live Camera Feeds on Nvidia Shield using Home Assistant

In this guide, I’m going to show you how to display a live video feed of your doorbell in a picture-in-picture (PIP) window on your Nvidia Shield using Home Assistant. This should also work on your Google TV’s. This guide is fairly complex. I spent an entire day piecing together several guides/posts before I could…

Lock Manager: Home Assistant Notifications for User-Specific Pin Codes

Lock Manager: Home Assistant Notifications for User-Specific Pin Codes

So, you’ve made the switch from Keymaster to the Lock Manager integration in Home Assistant. You can now sync your various door locks and their pin codes, without all the bloat of the Keymaster integration! The next step? You probably want to receive a notification whenever a specific person unlocks the door. For example, get…

How To Install Lock Manager in Home Assistant

How To Install Lock Manager in Home Assistant

Chances are, if you’ve been using Home Assistant, you’ve came across Keymaster, which is an integration that lets you configure/sync door lock codes between multiple devices. In fact, I’ve used Keymaster for years and it has been (mostly) rock solid! However, the Keymaster integration creates tons of scripts, automations, and entities that really clutter up…