The challenge

Living in Japan we generally default to using LINE for our messaging needs. At the time of this writing there is no integration for LINE within Home Assistant. Currently I use PushOver for some of my Home Assistant notifications. I also use Zapier with email to trigger notifications to my family LINE group. You can see how I did this here and here.

As of Mac OS 10.4 crontab has been depreciated but not ended. So its a good idea to know how to use its replacement under Mac OS. Welcome to Launchd.

This will be a short guide on how to use launchd in a simple form to replace a crontab job. In my case I am automating the backup of my Plex server. You can see my previous article here

Launchd has a lot of other features. I will not look at them here.

The Challenge

I wanted to be able to publish a new post that has already been written at a future date, without needing to manually publish the article.

The Challenge

How to automate the backing up of my Plex Media Server

Solution

A Bash Script

I wanted to automate this process. If I didn’t, it probably wouldn’t get done.

The Challenge

How to give Drobo time to mount before processes that need access to it begin and hence block it’s mounting by having the mount point in use.