I like the idea ! And looked at the project on github. But … snap disgust me so much more than searching the right source, i’m not adapting to it. But still nice thinking!

True, but in my defend, most are sliding panels 😜 , so half-outdoor-ish. Looking fo a kind of “best of both worlds” approach. Just want an outdoor kitchen I can use year around, not limited by the weather (cold doesn’t count, just the possibility of a bit of rain and snow protection (and maybe a bit of wind which is good during long smoker sessions)

I’m becoming more and more a fan of automated lighting. Partly motion detectors, but also home assistant that is monitoring the light levels from a nearby weather station and turns on the lights in the living room (and turns them off 22.30). The same goes for my home office. HA turns on the music when I start my laptop and turns off the music and desk (docking, monitors etc) 5 min after I turned off my laptop.

I found graylog and the likes nice but as you said heavy on resources. I now have a central rsyslog server (on debian 12) that first does some filtering of log lines I don’t care about and then stores log in postgress. Grafana lives on that same host and I’m very happy with it. It performs quite well with just a fraction of resources graylog had as bare minimum. (The server has 4 sockets and 8Gb mem, storage to SSD while 4 firewalls, 3 switches, 4 AP’s and 20 servers logging to it) In the proxmox console I see 2Gb mem is used and the cpu is bored (<5%)

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