home automation

I run nginx as my reverse proxy of choice from the folks over at linuxserver.io with automated Let's Encrypt functionality. It plugs neatly into the 20 or so containers I run on my primary server VM and the thought of migrating over the in-built Home Assistant plus reconfiguring all my configs made me go weak at the fingertips. My fully Ansiblised home infrastructure is open sourced at github.com/ironicbadger/infra including all my reverse proxy configs I was running into an issue for a while

HASSIO is probably the easiest way to run Home Assistant. It's a pre-packaged appliance aimed at a few key devices such as Raspberry Pi and so on. Being an appliance has pros and cons. The primary con is that installing software and advanced system configuration is not possible, though this is conversely also the primary advantage! You spend time with Home Assistant not administrating the system. Bad things happen and backups are your last line of defense in the event of hardware failure, theft

On Black Friday the Roborock S5 was discounted heavily enough that I bought one. I gave the Home Assistant Xiaomi Mi Robot Vacuum integration a look over before I did and browsed some reddit posts suggesting it was supported. Approximately 6 hours of frustration later, I finally got my API token. Here's how... Being no stranger to API keys, Personal Access Tokens and what have you I didn't really think that getting the token required for Home Assistant to connect with the Robot Vacuum could pos