Lets make a first start of the VanAssistant today. What are going to do? We are going to prepare a Raspberry Pi (4 or 5) to become a VanAssistant server. I call it VanAssistant now because we will adapt some settings on the hardware to make sure that we can control a lot of stuff in our CamperVan/Mobile home or RV or whatever we call them. This setup will also work in various other situations where your Home Assistant must run independent of where it is.

A short one today. I have had a non humourous last year. My family and me went through some deep holes as we call them. Real friends know what all happened and I would like to keep it that way. Time to leave that behind. I want to start something new. Last year I switched teams. Now I am in team that does a lot of Azure related services around Data and Analytics.

As some of you know I decided to move teams within Rabobank. This is something I have been working on for a long time. In my life as a SQL Platform engineer (automating the full stack of SQL Server deployments in the bank), I started to gain interest in the vision of their product Trident (yes.. Back in those days). The product is now named Fabric. For Rabobank I went to Seattle to attend SQL PASS Community.