One less Raspberry Pi, one more FreeBSD Jail for my home automation!
February 02, 2024 —
Nico Cartron
As part of my willingness to simplify my home setup, and also use more of FreeBSD goodness, there was a Raspberry Pi I was only using for controlling my Velux stores (see this post for more details).
This RPi was serving as:
- MQTT server (running Mosquitto)
- Node-RED server
Since I didn't want to have yet another failed Raspbian upgrade, I decided to move that setup to a FreeBSD Jail running on my TrueNAS server.
That was in fact really simple:
- Install Mosquitto with a
iocage pkg <jail> install mosquitto - Install Node-RED following that article
- Restore the Node-RED configuration (just a .json file in fact)
- Modify my Domoticz hardware setup to point to the new Mosquitto server
And voilà! That was it!
I now have one less Raspberry Pi to deal with :-)
Tags: IT, Automation