Configure Homebridge as a Service on Debian

Homebridge is a fantastic mechanism for getting non-HomeKit-certified smart home tech talking to Apple. It’s nerd tech written for nerds, so it’s not the easiest thing in the world to get running. Here are some instructions to make things work on Debian and friends (including Raspberry Pi and Ubuntu): Note that these instructions are going … Read more

Auto archive in Matomo

As I’ve discovered, setting up auto archival of Matomo reports makes Matomo faster (and also helps automate downloading of the geolocation databases). Generally speaking, follow the official auto-archiving guide .. BUT the cron job instructions don’t put things in the “correct” cron.hourly folder, and my OCD needed to fix that. 😉 Create the following file: … Read more