Home Assistant

Home Assistant deployment and management notes using Docker. The main limitation for the Docker version of Home Assistant is that additional application aren’t installable through the GUI and must be installed separately. ...

October 25, 2026 · 2 min · m0nkeyc0de

WLAN access point with hostapd

With hostapd you can quickly and easily run an access point. Sometimes it can be useful to diffuse a temporary SSID and/or analyze the traffic from a specific device with Wireshark. ...

March 19, 2026 · 2 min · m0nkeyc0de

OTA WLAN packet capture

Capturing raw WLAN frames Over-The-Air isn’t the most straightforwad thing to do. This articles paves the way for achieving that easily on Linux with cheap hardware. Cherry on the cake : full 6GHz spectrum is supported (up to Wi-Fi 6E). ...

March 12, 2026 · 2 min · m0nkeyc0de

Windows 11 IoT in QEMU

Sometimes you absolutely need Windows to run a piece of software. This page explains how to install and run Windows 11 IoT LTSC into QEMU in less than 30 minutes. ...

March 8, 2026 · 2 min · m0nkeyc0de

Raw data copy with dd on Linux

dd is a great tool to do a raw (or binary) copy of a storage device or a file. ...

January 24, 2026 · 1 min · m0nkeyc0de

Wiping storage devices

Before giving or throwing devices away, you should better wipe storage drives properly. Otherwise your data may be recovered and who knows what happens next… ...

January 21, 2024 · 2 min · m0nkeyc0de