A detailed walkthrough how I packaged Scrutiny, a S.M.A.R.T disk monitoring tool, for NixOS. Includes details of creating a NixOS module and using the NixOS testing framework to validate its functionality.| jnsgr.uk
A friend of mine recently had a solar panel system installed on his acreage. Besides being interesting because of the renewable/green aspect of the project, the system itself—from SolarEdge—is actually highly digital. A mobile app is used for commissioning the system. SolarEdge operates a cloud service which collects telemetry from the system and reports various performance metrics in a user-friendly dashboard. The inverters can connect to the IP network and provide a means to collect tel...| packetmischief.ca