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Setting up a guest network with the EdgeRouter Lite
I recently purchased a Ubiquiti Networks EdgeRouter Lite
to act as the router to my home network. As this box is only a router and not a WiFi access point, I'm using my Apple Time Capsule as an access point. By doing this and not using the Time Capsule, I lost the ability to have a separate guest network that wouldn't interact with my main network and wouldn't have access to my internal resources. After a bit of searching, I found out that the Time Capsule (and Airport Extreme)'s guest network uses a VLAN tag of 1003. A VLAN is a virtual LAN designed to separate traffic without physically separating it. I knew that the EdgeRouter Lite was extremely powerful and could do all kinds of wacky things with a VLAN; the question was just how could I do it.
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Dipping my toe in the world of Docker
A former co-worker of mine has talked about Docker for years and I've taken a look at it a few times, but have generally been uninterested in it. Recently with my interest in Home Assistant, I've decided to take another look as many of the installs of Home Assistant as well as Hass.io are based on Docker.
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Setting up a Leviton VRCZ4-M0Z for use with Home Assistant
I've been so pleased with Home Assistant that I decided to see if I could migrate completely away from Vera and run all my Z-Wave devices on Home Assistant. Currently Home Assistant uses OpenZwave as the base and has basic support for a lot of Z-Wave devices. While OpenZwave isn't as mature as Vera in its implementation, I found that with the exception of 4 Leviton VRCZ4-M0Z zone controllers, everything worked well. I've read that some people have had problems with Z-Wave on Home Assistant, but so far things have been going quite well for me using an Aeotec Z-Stick Gen5 as the controller. I suspect that my success is due to the type of devices I have (only outlets, switches, 1 light bulb, 2 portable MiniMote controllers and these VRCZ4s); I don't have any sensors and only 2 of my devices are battery powered.
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Auto Layout in a UITableViewCell with an image
Auto Layout is an amazing concept for developing iOS apps as it allows for an application to more easily look good across different devices. In addition it makes using dynamic type so much easier; as someone that wears glasses I always increase the type size on my devices and when apps don't take advantage of it, I get kind of annoyed. So when I develop apps, I try to use dynamic type and using auto layout makes things so much easier.