Jean-Paul van Ravensberg

Jean-Paul van Ravensberg

Use Smart Energy Meter with Home Assistant

The Dutch Government is aiming on providing smart meters to every household before Q4 2020. All the smart meters need to comply to DSMR (Dutch Smart Meter Requirements). DSMR allows us to read data from the smart meter by using a cable. In this guide, I will explain how I got this to work with Home Assistant. Prerequisites Home Assistant (Hass.io) running on a Raspberry Pi One of the supported smart meters.

Configuring the new Home Assistant Hass.io 64-bit image on a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+

My last blog post was all about getting Hass.io (or HassIO) installed on the new Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+. This guide starts right where we left off: configuring Home Assistant to work with the configuration files we already have from Home Assistant running on Raspbian. Below are the steps I took in a nutshell. Install and open the Configurator Add-on on Hass.io to make sure you can always open the web UI to change your configurations.

Windows Servicing Plans vs Task Sequences

On Twitter I asked the following to David James (Director of Engineering, ConfigMgr, Microsoft) and Johan Arwidmark (CTO @ TrueSec): https://twitter.com/DevSecNinja/status/1024927840138145793 For example, I have 3 device collections in SCCM that I call: “Windows 10 Feature Updates - Test” “Windows 10 Feature Updates - Pre-Production” “Windows 10 Feature Updates - Production” With ADRs, that’s quite simple. Just add the deployment to the Software Update Group in SCCM and you’re done. But I was wondering if that is supported in the Servicing Plan scenario too, as with a Servicing Plan you define the amount of days it will take after a build release, before SCCM will deploy the feature update to the collection.

Use PowerShell DSC and Azure Automation to Create an Active Directory Domain

Because of the recent domain change of my blog, I decided to completely start over again with my lab in Azure. I’ve been working with Desired State Configuration Configs in Azure for quite a few years, but never used them for my own lab environment. It felt a bit overkill to do that, but now I wanted to start over and do everything right. This step-by-step installation guide explains how to create a DSC Configuration in Azure Automation and how to apply this on your domain controller in Azure.

Installing the new Home Assistant Hass.IO 64-bit image on a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+

Home Assistant recently announced a brand new image of Hass.IO running on HassOS. I instantly ordered a new Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ to replace my older Raspberry Pi Model B, which was running Raspbian and Home Assistant. The guide below helps you with installing your new Hass.IO instance! Prerequisites Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ 32 GB **Micro-**SD card (I ordered a SanDisk Micro-SDHC 32GB Extreme U3 100MB/s) Ethernet cable (if not using WiFi) Micro USB power supply (2.

Welcome to Cloudenius.com!

Today I’m happy to tell you that my blog is now on the Cloudenius.com domain! Switching again? Less than a year ago, I changed the domain name of the blog from jvrtech.net to jvr.cloud. Unfortunately the domain name (jvr.cloud) has never been greatly accepted by Google. Searching for jvr cloud shows the JVR Cloud iOS app which hasn’t been updated for a while: Searching for jvr.cloud gave the following search results, which are better but still not good: What about the old domain name (jvr.