I worked with Greg for almost 20 years off and on as I would leave the company and return. There was a small group of us that implemented most of the new technology in the company. We were the one's that would stand up and fight to do things the "right" way and not how it had been done for the previous 30 years. We didn't always win but we put up a good fight and I know Greg put up a good fight.

RIP my friend.

The blog is for dated updates and notes. The tracker section holds current project status and next steps.

More soon.

Everyone knows about Home Assistant so I won't get into details about it. HA is one of the most popular and widely known systems. I started using it when it was still young and every update was a breaking change. I've used commercial systems (I'm a certified developer installer for RTI Control). I'll just list ones I've used.

• Home Assistant
• HomeSeer
• Hubitat
• RTI Control
• ISY / Polisy

I've gone through the devices from X10, Insteon, Z-Wave, Zigbee, Lutron, Shelly, Random IP devices, Aqara Zigbee, Aqara Matter, etc etc... you get the point.

I've learned a lot from all of these various systems. Mainly I've never been completely happy with any of them. There's always some quirk or feature missing or doesn't work or product team doesn't care. Well... maybe there's an alternative. Maybe.

Floccinaucinihilipilification is born. A mostly useless site where I can old-school blog and use as a scratch pad for notes and all version controlled. So now I have a Github and personal site.

First steps - Setup secrets​

Basics are needed for how to connect to the remote site. I'll add the following into a Github Environment -> Secrets

• SSH_USER
• SSH_PRIVATE_KEY
• SSH_HOST
• TARGET_DIR

Next in Github -> Actions I'll create a new workflow and not use any template just start from scratch and paste the following:

main.yml​

name: Build and Deploy Zola

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - main  # Set this to your main branch

jobs:
  build-and-deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout Repository
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          submodules: true  # Necessary if your Zola theme is a submodule

      - name: Install Zola
        run: |
          sudo snap install --edge zola
          zola build

      - name: SCP Transfer Files
        uses: appleboy/scp-action@v0.1.7
        with:
          host: ${{ secrets.SSH_HOST }}
          username: ${{ secrets.SSH_USER }}
          key: ${{ secrets.SSH_PRIVATE_KEY }}
          source: "public/*"
          target: ${{ secrets.TARGET_DIR }}
          strip_components: 1  # Removes "public/" from the path during copy
          overwrite: true

Now to fire this off and see what's broken.

• Run one was a fail with authentication issues. Take two....