Corn Fritters

Posted on June 10, 2025 by admin

These fritters are delish. Eat with sweet-chili sauce.

Ingredients

1 egg (egg replacer)
3 TBSP water
1 tin corn (creamed) – otherwise blend with stick mixer
1 onion (small)
1/4tsp salt
Pepper
1c Gluten Free Flour
1tsp Baking Soda

Method

Mix egg replacer. Finely chop onion. When egg replacer ready, mix all ingredients into a bowl.

Place dessertspoon size blobs into a frypan (use olive oil to prevent sticking). Fritters will rise during cooking. Flip over after a few minutes, or when appears to be half cook and continue to cook on the other side. Place onto plate to cook when cooked.

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Home Assistant – Garbage Reminder

Posted on January 1, 2024 by admin

Overview

This post describes how I made a garbage reminder that changes every week. In my area, rubbish collection is on a two week cycle as per the following table

	Week 1	Week2
Monday	Recycling / Council Rubbish
Tuesday	Glass	Green waste / Rubbish Bin

Table showing what is picked up when

There has been some changes to what Home Assistant (HA) can provide, so this is all being done using the native options, without relying on third party plugins. This solution allows for an image to change depending upon the week. There are three components to make this solution

Toggle switch is the brains of the system
Picture card – displays an image depending upon the position of the toggle switch
Calendar event – toggles the switch when an event occurs.

Toggle Switch

Lets get the brains of this solution configured first

Go to Settings > Devices and Services > Helpers
Create a new helper of type Toggle
I have called my Recycle Week and when turned on represents week 1 of my schedule
Make note of the entity ID as we will need this (input_boolean.recycle_week).
Set the toggle to on to represent the first week

Picture Card

Now we have our toggle switch, lets now get the picture card working, and then we can toggle the switch as required and confirm all works as expected. For this blog, I have used two random pictures to represent each week. Later I will update these to represent actual pictures of what I want.

I did this with XML code. Not sure if you can do this with built in editor.

Switch to a dashboard where you want the card to be displayed
Click the Add Card button
Select Picture Entity
Select the Show code editor entity
Replace the XML with the code below
Make modifications as follows:
1. Set the input_boolean value as created above
2. Change the photos URL (see below)
Click Save

type: picture-entity
entity: input_boolean.recycle_week
show_name: false
show_state: false
state_image:
  'on': >-
    https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1682686581551-867e0b208bd1?w=500&auto=format&fit=crop&q=60&ixlib=rb-4.0.3&ixid=M3wxMjA3fDF8MHxlZGl0b3JpYWwtZmVlZHwxfHx8ZW58MHx8fHx8
  'off': >-
    https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1703555508141-4397207fc6d2?w=500&auto=format&fit=crop&q=60&ixlib=rb-4.0.3&ixid=M3wxMjA3fDB8MHxlZGl0b3JpYWwtZmVlZHw1fHx8ZW58MHx8fHx8
tap_action: none

Testing Image Toggling

On the same dashboard

Press Add Card
Change tab to By Entity
Search or scroll and find Recycle Week entity
Put a tick in the checkbox next to it
Press Continue
Press Add to Dashboard
Toggle the slide switch of Recycle Switch card and the image in the picture card should change.
Once satisfied that this works, then delete the Recycle Week toggle card if desired.

Note: We are only temporarily putting this on the dash board for us to test with. Once working, then we can remove this card.

Calendar

Recurring event

If you do not have the local calendar integration installed, then you need to go into settings and install it. This will allow us to create a recurring schedule entry.

Create a new calendar (I have called mine Automations) where we are going to put into the repeating event.

Add a repeating calendar event, weekly. Since I have a Monday/Tuesday collection, I have made the event occur at 4:30pm on a Tuesday. I have chosen then, as by 4:30 on a Tuesday it is too late to put out the Rubbish, and then from Wednesday onward, it is correct. However, chose a time that suits yourself. Make a note of the name of the event you created, as we need this later – my event is called Change Recycling Week

Set the duration of the calendar event to 1 minute. We are only going to be reacting to the start of the event.

Automation

Now we have an event that is recurring, we now need to set up and automation that fires when the calendar event starts.

Go to Settings > Automations & Scenes
Under the Automations tab, select Create Automation
Select Create a new automation
Under Triggers, select Add Trigger
Select Calendar
Select the calendar that has the trigger event
Leave the rest of the trigger options as default
Add a condition
Select Template
add the following in, changing the value on the right hand side to equal what the calendar event is called: {{ trigger.calendar_event.summary == ‘Test Event’ }}
Add an Action
select: Call a service
Select: Input Boolean: Toggle
Select the entity we created: Recycle Week
Click Save
Give it a name, for example: Automation: Change Recycle Week
Click Save

Testing it all out

Change the calender event time to be > 15 minutes from now (HA only reads the calendar every 15 minutes). Make a note of the setting of the switch, and then see if it changes when the time elapses.

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Getting correct image size from Eagle PCB

Posted on October 7, 2023 by admin

So, having issues getting the correct print size from Eagle PCB on printer. These steps seem to work for me

Create the board in Eagle
Turn off all layers except those wanted, ie Top, Pads, Vias
File -> Export -> Image
- Resolution: 600
- Select Monochrome
- Give a file name
- Click OK
Open file in Gimp
- Image -> Crop to Content
- If need to invert image, ie Top mask overlay (Flip Horizontally & Flip vertically), Colors -> Invert
Save modified image
Print
- Page Setup tab
  - Ensure scale is 100%
- Image Settings tab
  - Draw Crop marks (if needed)
- Color Tab
  - Monochrome
- Advanced
  - Print Scaling: None
  - Print Optimization: Graphics
- Press Print

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Multi Battery Charger – WiFi enabled

Posted on August 19, 2023 by admin

Overview

This project is about creating a multi battery charger that is smart enabled. The circuit allows up to 8 batteries to be charged from a single battery charger. When the battery charger is started, it starts charging one battery at a time, until all batteries have been charged. At this point, the battery charger will turn off.

Features of the charger

Multiple batteries can be charged
Auto turn off when completed
Automatic changing to next battery when charged
Capable to handling 30A charge current
Simple interface
Voltage/Current display
Built with ESPHome
WiFi Enabled – allow to be integrated into Home Assistant
Bring your own charger – This device just switches between batteries, it is not responsible for the type of battery connected

Components

8 Channel WiFi enabled relay board

Inputs / Output

Inputs

On/Off button
Start/Pause button
Next/Stop button
Current – ADC connection

Outputs

8 Relay outputs
8 LED’s showing relay status
Running LED
Charger relay on/off
Unit on LED

Connections

Running LED connected to the Charger relay on/off output
8 LED outputs added as an extension on the built in HC595 serial/parallel converter
Current through the ADC pin
Unit On LED – on when power to the unit

Using the Device

The device is designed to be easy to control. There are only two buttons on the front of the unit that are required to use the unit. Not all configuration settings are available through the device interface, and require home assistant to configure.

To Power On the Device

The device uses soft-power on. Using the switch on the back of the unit will enable power to the unit. In this initial state, power is supplied to the unit, but the unit is not fully turned in. In the state, the unit can connect to Wi-Fi and communicate to Home Assistant. This will enable schedules to be executed as required, as well as over-the-air updates.

Pressing and holding the On/Off button for 2 seconds and then releasing will turn the unit on, if the power switch is on. The unit will go through a start up sequence:

All lights on
Display of the maximum batteries configuration option (and allow adjustment)
If the configuration option Auto Start Charging is enabled, the device will start charging battery one, otherwise the unit will be in Idle mode.

To Power Off the Device

Press and hold the On/Off switch for approximately 2 seconds.

To Change Current Selected Battery

Use the Next/Sel button repeatedly to change the selected battery to the desired battery. If a battery is currently charging, the unit will start to flash the charging LED. Once a timeout of selecting the battery has occurred, approximately 2 seconds, the battery will change to the selected battery and start charging. If you want to cancel changing battery selection if the charger is on, ensure to select the current battery that is charging.

To Start and Pause Charging

To start charging batteries, press the Start/Pause button. The LED on the Next/Sel button will illuminate showing that the battery charger is turned on. If the charger outputs are connected to the multi-battery charger, the Voltage/Current display will also illuminate. To pause the charging, press the Start/Pause button again. The display will turn off, along with the light on the Next/Sel button as the charger is turned off, and the battery relay of the selected battery is turned off.

Configuration

The device has a number of configuration options. Due to the hardware only have 2 switches, the device configuration on the unit is limited. The changes can be made through a home-assistant setup.

The following table describes the configuration options, and whether they can be configured on the device, or in home assistant.

Configuration Option	On Unit	In HA	Default Value	Description
Auto Start Charging	No	Yes	No	When power is turned onto the battery charger, it will automatically start the charging process
Calibration Value	No	Yes	918	Used to zero the current out. See calibration section.
Charger off when switching Battery	No	Yes	Yes	When the unit is switching to another battery, should the charger be turned off as well during the switch.
Delay when changing battery	No	Yes	2s	The number of seconds between disabling the current battery selected relay, and energising the new battery selection.
Max Batteries	Yes	Yes	5	The maximum number of batteries to charge
Restart Device	No	Yes	N/A	Used to restart the device remotely
Switch Current	No	Yes	0.04 A	The maximum current that the battery charger is supplying before switching to the next battery.

Auto Start Charging

When this setting is enabled, whenever the unit is turned on, it will automatically start charging.

Calibration Value

The calibration value is used to offset the current reading sensor of the microprocessor. When the unit is switched on, and not drawing any current, the current reading on Home Assistant may show current being drawn. This setting does not affect the built in display of the unit. The calibration slide switch is moved until the Charge Current reading is zero (0). The calibration value shown is the raw A/D value read by the microprocessor.

Adjust procedure

Connect the charger to the unit.
Turn on the multi-battery charger.
Note, and adjust the Switch Current configuration sensor to 0.
Press the Start/Pause button to start the charging process.
Wait 30 seconds, and make note of the charge current sensor value.
Work out the new value of the calibration value: calibration value – ( charge current / 0.04).
Adjust the calibration value configuration slider to the new value.
Wait 30 seconds and confirm that the charge current now sits at zero. Adjust slider as necessary.
Once satisfied, adjust the Switch Current to the desired amount.

NOTE: Adjust the value just enough so that it continuously displays 0. The software will not display negative numbers, so it is possible to set a value such that the current read is a negative value. However the display will only show 0. If the unit is configured like this, the current reading will not show current draw until the negative difference has been exceeded, as which point the display will register. In other words, the negative value of current reading is the error amount in the current reading.

Charger Off when Switching Battery

When the current has fallen below the Switch Current value for an extended time, the unit will switch battery. The relay for the selected battery will turn off disconnecting the charger from the battery. This option enables the charger relay to also be turned off at the same time. This setting will depend upon the battery charger. Some smart battery chargers, when a fault is detected with the battery, requires that the charger is turned off to reset, instead of just disconnecting the battery. Should the option not be set, and a charger enters a fault condition, subsequent batteries will not be charged.

Delay when Changing Batteries

This options sets the time, in seconds between when a battery is disconnected from the charger, and when the next battery is connected. If the Charger Of when Switching Battery is enabled, this setting will also effect the amount of time the charger is switched off.

Maximum Batteries

This sets the maximum number of batteries connected to the charger. This settings will enable the device to turn off quicker, as it does not need to try and charge batteries that are not connected. This can be changed anytime from Home Assistant, but can only be changed during power-on on the device.

To change the Maximum Batteries on the device:

Turn the unit off if already on (not Battery lights displayed)
Turn the unit on.
The first stage of initialization is ALL lights are enabled.
When the lights on the buttons go out, the unit is displaying the maximum batteries.
Use the Next/Select button to change the number of lights on, which represents the maximum number of batteries. You have approximately 5 seconds to press the Next/Select button to start changing the number of batters.
After approximately 5 seconds of no button selection, the unit will move to the on state, where battery 1 is illuminated.

Restart Device

This enables the device to be reset from Home Assistant. This is best used prior to upgrading the firmware.

Switch Current

Sets the continuous value that the average charge current must be at, or below before the unit will switch batteries. This is in effect the maximum current that is drawn by a battery when it is charged. The average must be at or below this value for 3 consecutive readings of the Charge Current sensor.

Pin Outs for the Charger

ESP-12 Pin	Function
IO 0
IO 2	On/Off Start/Pause Button
IO4	Next Button
IO 5	595 Relay OE pin
IO 12	595 Relay Latch Pin
IO 13	595 Relay Latch Clock Pin
IO 14	595 Relay Data Pin
IO 15	Charger Relay
IO 16	Status LED
TX
RX
ADC	Current ADC

Relay control

The board comes with an HC595 controlling the relays. The pin-outs are hard coded. The following table shows the pins that are used on the ESP32, along with the connections to the chip

ESP-12 Pin	Function	74HC595 Pin	ESPHome name
5	!OE	13	oe_pin
12	RCLK	12	latch_pin
13	SRCLK	11	clock_pin
14	SER	14	data pin

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Updating code into ESP chip from factory

Posted on August 5, 2023 by admin

When getting a new module/board, you need to load code into it. After the code is created in ESPHome, download it for manual install, then use the following command to load it into the chip

esptool.py --chip auto -p /dev/ttyUSB0 write_flash 0x0 ~/snap/chromium/current/Downloads/file.bin

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Using AVR High Voltage Parallel Programmer

Posted on April 25, 2023 by admin

Purchased the below pictured AVR programmer from Aliexpress. Needed to use AVR Studio to get it going until I found the magic sauce.

Well, the magic sauce is this for linux, use the device type of stk500pp (parallel programming). Once this is done, works a treat. However, inside of Eclipse, cannot seem to read fuse values, or device type. Maybe there is a plug in update, but at least it allows to program devices.

For a command line option, this is what works

avrdude -p m88p -c stk500pp -P /dev/ttyUSB0 -b 115200 -U signature:r:file.bin

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Azure AD Roles and authentication methods

Posted on July 1, 2022 by admin

So, I was trying to improve the MS Security score, and the awesome feature of the admin users without MFA secure score item, is that it cannot tell you who exactly does not have it. It only gives you a number. So, I set about to create a script, using MS Graph to enable this to occur. This script provides

List of all roles that have users allocated to them, and the users that are assigned the role
List of authentication methods for all users who have Azure AD Roles

# Import the module
# If you need to install the module, use "Install-Module Microsoft.Graph".  Be prepared to wait 5-20 minutes for it to install though!

if (Get-InstalledModule -Name Microsoft.Graph -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) {
    Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Identity.DirectoryManagement
    Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Identity.SignIns
} else {
    write-host -foregroundColor Yellow "Sorry - need to install PS module.  Use Install-Module Microsoft.Graph (prepare to wait 5-20 minutes for this to finish!)"
    exit
}

# Connect with the rights needed
Write-host "Connecting to Tenant..."
Connect-MgGraph -Scopes "User.Read.All", "RoleManagement.Read.Directory", "UserAuthenticationMethod.Read.All"

# Get list of directory roles
Write-host "Getting list of roles..."
$roles = Get-MgDirectoryRole
$users = @{}

# Iterate through the roles showing who has what roles
foreach ($role in $roles) {
    $members = Get-MgDirectoryRoleMember -DirectoryRoleId $role.id
    if ($members) {
        write-host $role.DisplayName 
        foreach ($member in $members) {
            $user = Get-MgUser -UserId $member.Id
            $users[$member.Id] = $user.UserPrincipalName
            write-host "  $($user.UserPrincipalName)"
        }
        write-host 
    }
}

# Now we have a list of users, lets find out what authentication methods they are using
Write-host -foregroundColor Yellow "User authentication methods"
write-host "Gathering information: " -NoNewline
$userAuthMethods = @()
foreach ($userKey in $users.Keys) {
            $authenticatorMethods = Get-MgUserAuthenticationMethod -UserId $userKey
            $methods = ""
            foreach ($method in $authenticatorMethods) {
                $properties = $method.AdditionalProperties 
                foreach ($key in $properties.keys) {
                    if ($key -eq '@odata.type') {
                        $type = $properties[$key] -replace "#microsoft.graph.", ""
                        $type = $type -replace "Method", ""
                        $methods += " $type,"
                        
                    }
                }
            }
            Write-Host '.' -NoNewline
            $methods = $methods.Trim(',',' ')
            $obj = New-Object -TypeName psobject
            $obj | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name Name -Value $users[$userkey]
            $obj | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name AuthenticationMethods -Value $methods
            $userAuthMethods += $obj
#            write-host "  $($users[$userkey]) - [$methods]"
}
write-host
$userAuthMethods | Sort-Object -Property Name
Disconnect-Graph

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Cakephp JQuery Bootstrap and Modal forms

Posted on December 9, 2021 by admin

Wanted to create a pop-up modal form to edit, view and create database information. The default is, of course, to go to a new page. I thought that I would try and work through it to make it more HTML2.0 like. Here is what you need to do…

Set up the main view

First off, we need to set up the main view to hold the modal dialog code. So, in the index.php template, or whatever main view template you want to do, add the following code to define the modal dialog box…

<!-- Modal -->
<div class="modal fade" id="myModal" role="dialog">
    <div class="modal-dialog modal-lg">
    
        <!-- Modal content-->
        <div class="modal-content">
            <div class="modal-header">
                <h4 class="modal-title" id="modal-title">Popup Window</h4>
                <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal">&times;</button>
            </div>
            <div class="modal-body">

            </div>
 <!--            <div class="modal-footer">
                <button type="button" class="btn btn-default" data-dismiss="modal">Close</button>
            </div> -->
        </div>
      
    </div>
</div>

We also need to add some Javascript to the template file. We do this as blocks to ensure it is loaded after the JQuery library is loaded. The following shows two types of ways to include the scripts. One we load in, and the other is inline. Note, that we don’t need the `test` file in this blog, but shows how to load it in should you want to do this instead of being inline. Note: it is best practice to not have javascript inline any longer.

<?= $this->Html->script('test', ['block' => 'script']);?>

<?php $this->Html->scriptStart(['block' => true]);?>
$(document).ready(function() {
	    $('.openPopup').on('click',function(){
	    var title = $(this).attr('data-title');
        var dataURL = $(this).attr('data-href');
        $('.modal-title').text(title);
        $('.modal-body').load(dataURL,function(){
            $('#myModal').modal({show:true});
        });
    }); 
});
<?php $this->Html->scriptEnd();?>

To make use of this, we need to define two items in the button, or link to open the code. The first parameter is `data-title` which has the title of the modal box. `data-href` is the URL of the page to be loaded into the modal dialog box. Examples of this

Note that when using Cake, we don’t use the button type, as this triggers a connection to the backend server

<?= $this->Html->tag('a', __('Rename'), ['class' => 'btn btn-xs btn-outline-primary openPopup', 'escape' => false, 'data-title'=>'Edit Framework', 'data-href'=>'/admin/frameworks/edit/'.$framework->id]) ?>

<a href="javascript:void(0);" data-title="This is a title" data-href="/admin/framework-subcontrols/edit/04eff439-88be-4765-b6e8-aed6102f7e4f" class="openPopup">About Us</a>

<a class="btn btn-xs btn-outline-primary openPopup" data-href="<?= $this->Url->build(['controller' => 'FrameworkSubcontrols', 'action' => 'view', $frameworkSubcontrols->id]); ?>">view</a>

Ensure that you have the openPopup class element on each button that is used, to trigger the modal dialog box.

To close the modal dialog box, use the following code snippet in the view

<button type="button" class="btn btn-default" data-dismiss="modal">Cancel</button>

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Davmail and Office 365 MFA

Posted on February 21, 2021 by admin

Needed to set up getting email from Office365 for some DMARC reports through Elastic. Parsedmarc requires a connection to an IMAP server, so what do you do, then when the account is on Office 365, and you need to use MFA, and app passwords are disabled.

So, a program that can do this is DAVmail. It can run in headless mode, and do the bridge of IMAP from client, and EWS using MFA. I used Docker to run the application.

This is my docker-compose file

version: '2.2'
  services:
    davmail:
      container_name: "davmail"
      image: kran0/davmail-docker:latest
      ports:
        - 1143:1143
      volumes:
        - ./davmail/davmail.properties:/davmail/davmail.properties
        - /var/log/davmail365:/var/log/davmail
      restart: always

The davmail\davmail.properties file starts off list this. This will enable you to test the connection using standard IMAP, if you are able to do it (account without MFA).

# DavMail settings, see http://davmail.sourceforge.net/ for documentation

#############################################################
# Basic settings

# Server or workstation mode
davmail.server=true
# Exchange/Office 365 connection mode:
# - O365Modern Office 365 modern authentication (Oauth2)
# - O365Interactive Office 365 with interactive browser window, not available in headless mode (OpenJFX required)
# - O365Manual Office 365 with interactive dialog, not available in headless mode
# - O365 Office 365 EWS mode
# - EWS Exchange 2007 and later
# - WebDav Exchange 2007 and earliear WebDav mode
# - Auto WebDav mode with EWS failover
davmail.mode=EWS
# base Exchange OWA or EWS url
davmail.url=https://outlook.office365.com/EWS/Exchange.asmx

# Listener ports
#davmail.caldavPort=1080
davmail.imapPort=1143
#davmail.ldapPort=1389
#davmail.popPort=1110
#davmail.smtpPort=1025

#############################################################
# Network settings

# Network proxy settings
davmail.enableProxy=false
davmail.useSystemProxies=false
davmail.proxyHost=
davmail.proxyPort=
davmail.proxyUser=
davmail.proxyPassword=

# proxy exclude list
davmail.noProxyFor=

# allow remote connection to DavMail
davmail.allowRemote=true
# bind server sockets to a specific address
davmail.bindAddress=
# client connection timeout in seconds - default 300, 0 to disable
davmail.clientSoTimeout=

# DavMail listeners SSL configuration
davmail.ssl.keystoreType=
davmail.ssl.keystoreFile=
davmail.ssl.keystorePass=
davmail.ssl.keyPass=

# Accept specified certificate even if invalid according to trust store
davmail.server.certificate.hash=

# disable SSL for specified listeners
davmail.ssl.nosecurecaldav=false
davmail.ssl.nosecureimap=true
davmail.ssl.nosecureldap=false
davmail.ssl.nosecurepop=false
davmail.ssl.nosecuresmtp=false

# disable update check
davmail.disableUpdateCheck=true

# Send keepalive character during large folder and messages download
davmail.enableKeepAlive=true
# Message count limit on folder retrieval
davmail.folderSizeLimit=0
# Default windows domain for NTLM and basic authentication
davmail.defaultDomain=

#############################################################
# Caldav settings

# override default alarm sound
davmail.caldavAlarmSound=
# retrieve calendar events not older than 90 days
davmail.caldavPastDelay=90
# EWS only: enable server managed meeting notifications
davmail.caldavAutoSchedule=true
# WebDav only: force event update to trigger ActiveSync clients update
davmail.forceActiveSyncUpdate=false

#############################################################
# IMAP settings

# Delete messages immediately on IMAP STORE \Deleted flag
davmail.imapAutoExpunge=true
# Enable IDLE support, set polling delay in minutes
davmail.imapIdleDelay=
# Always reply to IMAP RFC822.SIZE requests with Exchange approximate message size for performance reasons
davmail.imapAlwaysApproxMsgSize=

#############################################################
# POP settings

# Delete messages on server after 30 days
davmail.keepDelay=30
# Delete messages in server sent folder after 90 days
davmail.sentKeepDelay=90
# Mark retrieved messages read on server
davmail.popMarkReadOnRetr=false

#############################################################
# SMTP settings

# let Exchange save a copy of sent messages in Sent folder
davmail.smtpSaveInSent=true

#############################################################
# Loggings settings

# log file path, leave empty for default path
davmail.logFilePath=/var/log/davmail.log
# maximum log file size, use Log4J syntax, set to 0 to use an external rotation mechanism, e.g. logrotate
davmail.logFileSize=1MB
# log levels
log4j.logger.davmail=WARN
log4j.logger.httpclient.wire=WARN
log4j.logger.org.apache.commons.httpclient=WARN
log4j.rootLogger=WARN

#############################################################
# Workstation only settings

# smartcard access settings
davmail.ssl.pkcs11Config=
davmail.ssl.pkcs11Library=

# SSL settings for mutual authentication
davmail.ssl.clientKeystoreType=
davmail.ssl.clientKeystoreFile=
davmail.ssl.clientKeystorePass=

# disable all balloon notifications
davmail.disableGuiNotifications=false
# disable tray icon color switch on activity
davmail.disableTrayActivitySwitch=false
# disable startup balloon notifications
davmail.showStartupBanner=true

# enable transparent client Kerberos authentication
davmail.enableKerberos=false

log4j.logger.org.apache.commons.httpclient=WARN
log4j.logger.httpclient.wire=WARN
log4j.rootLogger=WARN
log4j.logger.davmail=DEBUG

If the account has MFA then the above config will work if App Passwords are allowed. If they are not allowed, then it wont work. To get this working, you need to change the line

`davmail.mode=EWS` to `davmail.mode=O365Modern`.

Set the account to use the Microsoft Authenticator for MFA. Then connect to the davmail output, and you should see it pop up with a URL during signin

https://login.microsoftonline.com/common/oauth2/authorize?client_id=UUID HERE&response_type=code&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Flogin.microsoftonline.com%2Fcommon%2Foauth2%2Fnativeclient&response_mode=query&login_hint=useraccount&resource=https%3A%2F%2Foutlook.office365.com

At this point, copy the URL into a browser and authenticate. You will be prompted for MFA. Accept the permissions that are being added to the account for DAVmail. The browser will stay at a blank screen.

To continue on, but may not be accurate. I noticed that it was polling for MFA again, so accepted, and then away it goes – IMAP through MFA account.

DAVmail will keep the token renewed, so that is great.

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Cakephp DebugKit not working

Posted on January 3, 2021 by admin

I run cakephp in docker containers behind a reverse proxy. This means that there is common logging, Lets Encrypt certs when required etc. However, CakePHP is normally run on port 80 in a docker container, so that means when you try and enable debug kit, the browser will complain about mixed content and NOT display the debugKit panel.

As can be seen, unless you look for it, you will go down the ‘rabbit hole of pain’, to try and find the issue. To resolve, there are a couple of options

Set up the docker container to run on HTTPS – NGINX can handle a self signed cert so wont cause a problem
Force Cakephp to use a baseURL

Force CakePHP to use baseURL

This is the approach I took, as seemed easier, and since it should only be used in development, means locally its fine.

Edit config\app_local.php and add the following

/* 'App' => [
'fullBaseUrl' => 'https://url_to_site',
], */

This will tell CakePHP to use the BaseURL for any links that it generates, which as client is connecting to server with SSL, this all works out.

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