beutler.nl

An old Kindle as a Home Assistant wall calendar – and the battery bug that took two weeks

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

A jailbroken Kindle Paperwhite 2 that draws our calendar and weather itself, wakes twice a day and lasts weeks on a charge. Built with Claude over SSH – including three wrong theories about the battery.

AVD – Show total sessions across all pools / subs

Sun, 21 Aug 2022 17:48:23 GMT

The AVD workbooks coming from Microsoft and other sources like the ITProCloud are nice but are based on individual hostpools. But what if you need to know…

Power Automate – Combine multiple JSON objects for Response

Tue, 07 Jun 2022 07:05:39 GMT

Today I was looking at running multiple HTTP requests and combine all of the data into one JSON object in Power Automate to respond back to my PowerApp.

Powerapps + Gitlab + Terraform + AzureVirtualDesktop

Sat, 28 May 2022 20:31:29 GMT

Welcome to Part 1 (Frontend) of my multi-part series of automating your project intake request process. This article describes how to automatically roll-out…

Assign RBAC Custom Role on Management Group Level

Tue, 04 May 2021 06:17:10 GMT

Recently i had to add custom roles to our management group and since this is not supported through the GUI i had to go through powershell.

(FPV) Quadcopter X Setup

Mon, 01 Jun 2015 05:03:37 GMT

So as of yesterday i finally finished something that i had in my mind for such a long time.

Mail Server Tutorial Debian Wheezy

Tue, 19 May 2015 15:36:12 GMT

Note to me: Awesome mail server tutorial that works out of the box.

:: PowerCLI | Remove VMs

Wed, 13 May 2015 10:34:49 GMT

Just a quick script from me that will help delete a bunch of VMs.

:: Debian 7 – Server crashed and rebuilt

Tue, 12 May 2015 12:30:15 GMT

Memo to myself: my Debian server broke during an upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie. These are the steps I took to rebuild it.

Infographic | Linux File Structure

Tue, 17 Feb 2015 14:56:42 GMT

Source: Blackmoreops

PowerCLI | Increase and Expand VM Guest OS Disk

Wed, 22 Oct 2014 08:35:50 GMT

Two scripts that increase and extend the guest OS disk of Windows XP and Windows 7 VMs with PowerCLI.

Tutorial for Git and Github

Fri, 26 Sep 2014 18:10:15 GMT

Insanely well written Tutorial for Git and Github.

Shellshock – Fix your security

Thu, 25 Sep 2014 19:05:17 GMT

Shellshock – A bug discovered in the widely used Bash command interpreter.

ViewCLI | Find users & assigned VM that did not login for more than 90 days

Wed, 24 Sep 2014 08:55:10 GMT

I didn’t find this anywhere else so i decided to create my own ViewCLI script.

Ubuntu | Watch Netflix on Linux

Wed, 24 Sep 2014 04:23:24 GMT

Hi everyone, i recently noticed that it’s possible to watch Netflix on Linux (Ubuntu 13+) and Chrome Beta.

Script/Commands | Find your local AD server

Tue, 23 Sep 2014 13:43:32 GMT

Pretty neat script/commands if you need to find your attached AD/DC server(s).

Powershell Script | Template (input from pipeline / error handling)

Mon, 22 Sep 2014 08:17:00 GMT

If you want to have a template that delivers some basic functionality just use this as and modify it to your needs.

PowerCLI Script | Find orphaned VMDK & Snapshots

Fri, 19 Sep 2014 09:41:36 GMT

If find this script really useful for finding orphaned VMDKs.

VMWare Tools Installation | Network resource unavailable (error1316)

Thu, 04 Sep 2014 07:48:50 GMT

If you ever encounter the problem that you can’t update or install vmware tools (uninstall is also affected) due to missing soure.

View Agent | The JVM has aborted

Wed, 03 Sep 2014 09:45:31 GMT

When HP QuickTest Professional software is installed on a View desktop, View Agent stops running and cannot communicate with View Connection Server. As a…

Win7/Vista – MSI Installer Safe Mode

Wed, 03 Sep 2014 09:13:10 GMT

Windows Installer does not work in Safe Mode – unless you add a registry entry for it. Here is how.

Win7 / Vista – Registry access denied

Wed, 03 Sep 2014 07:50:57 GMT

If you ever happen to be in the same position as me and your registry doesn’t let you change keys/values, check this article as it resolved my issue.

Storage | EMC X-Brick

Tue, 26 Aug 2014 09:59:23 GMT

What a nice storage system <3 🙂

Free WiFi Düsseldorf

Mon, 18 Aug 2014 10:19:04 GMT

Did you know about the 11 current free WiFi spots in Düsseldorf?

Site layout

Mon, 04 Aug 2014 10:28:23 GMT

I just changed some margins to lower values as i had the impression there was too much space in between the elements. Let me know what you think of it.

Report Guest Disk Sizes | PowerCLI

Thu, 31 Jul 2014 06:29:06 GMT

I already explained in my previous post how to grow/extend Guest OS disks with PowerCLI.

View | Unassign User PowerCLI

Wed, 30 Jul 2014 16:06:06 GMT

If you dont want to unassign all users by hand simply provide this script a .csv file with desktop names and it will do it for you.

Users Last Logon Time to Computer | WMI > Win32_UserProfile

Wed, 30 Jul 2014 11:50:39 GMT

If you want to see a specific users last logon time to a machine use:

Change & Grow VM Hard Disk

Wed, 30 Jul 2014 11:22:20 GMT

We are right now in the need of resizing all of our Hard Disks on the Virtual Desktop VMs from 40GB to 60GB.

New Job

Thu, 03 Jul 2014 08:44:27 GMT

Since the 1st of july i finally got into a very interesting position in my company.

Apache 2 & SSL

Tue, 25 Mar 2014 07:05:45 GMT

Just activated SSL on my apache2 VirtualHost for this page.

Roundcubemail

Mon, 24 Mar 2014 22:32:18 GMT

Just added roundcubemail to my dovecot imap server.

Dovecot & imap

Mon, 24 Mar 2014 20:08:17 GMT

Just wanted to install dovecot-imapd when i noticed my dovecot-core installation was somehow corrupt. Got error message like these from top to bottom:

[Apache] Name based virtual host

Mon, 24 Mar 2014 10:21:13 GMT

So after quite some time now i became annoyed of my FQDN and wanted something easier to read/share. I’ve bought a domain from godaddy.com (anyone knows…

New Blog

Mon, 24 Mar 2014 07:37:56 GMT

Hi all,