Put the entire household on the pihole, hope I don't get too many complaints, LOL (maybe overkill for the entire household, but... worth the experiment) #pihole#cybersecurity
@ai6yr I've had a #pihole on the entire house for four years now and it's rare that I get a complaint. Have four separate VLANs and several Pihole groups to keep things nice and segregated. Small kids and guests get a highly filtered experience.
I'm also running a #Ubiquiti#Unifi Dream Machine Pro so I've got traffic rules in place and flat out block some applications and several countries entirely.
Upgraded the homelab’s 10gb switch to the UniFi EnterpriseXG. Not only do I have more 10gb ports now, I also have far fewer SFP+ modules in use, and the switches are all matchy matchy.
Also, I swear the whole rig has less latency now. I can’t prove it, but it sure feels snappier.
It's been a steep learning curve but it's cool that most of the stuff just works (TP-Link #Kasa and #Tapo, #Ikea Zigbee, #Philips#Hue (using the Hue Bridge, not directly connected to my Zigbee coordinator). Some stuff this uses the cloud (but can be used locally), other stuff takes out the cloud entirely. (1/2)
#Ubiquity's #UniFi system has been expensive, true. But that's been one of the best purchases I've made in years. It's easy to use, looks nice and just works stable as a rock... 😍
Both my wife and I have a #LEGO set with a light kit hooked up to our #gaming#PC's. So that when our PC's are on the light kit in the hooked up set is on. Due to the motherboard during #WoL the #USB ports those sets are hooked into are always supplying power. As a result they would always be turned on. So used #nodered with information from a #ESP presence sensor, and information from the #unifi#switch the PC's are connected to to determine if they are on. When they are off the NIC speed is
#Ubiquiti never ceases to amaze me with how simple yet powerful it can be. I needed to route specific traffic from a specific device on the local network over a VPN. In #Unifi Dream Machine Pro, the VPN and routing setup was done in 5 minutes and very intuitively. 👌
Why multicast enhancements cause wired devices to sometimes not see WiFi devices:
“Because when a wireless device roams, it will no longer receive multicasts on the new AP until the next time it subscribes.
Multicast enhancement blocks multicast traffic from being transmitted on APs with no multicast subscribers. (…) losing things like MDNS updates, in some cases for many minutes.”
Just deployed two new #Ubiquiti#unifi#U7-Pro access points to my home network to replace a #UAP-AC-LR and a #UAP-FlexHD. So far they seem to be working well.
I'm doing wireless mesh between the AP connected to the router and the AP in the back of the house. The connection isn't amazing (only getting 70mbps down from the meshed AP) but that's better than before.
These new AP are quite a bit bigger and heavier than my old ones.
I just can’t run things normally… Just updated my #UniFi Network app on the #DreamMachinePro gateway to release candidate version 8.1.113. Everything has to be running slightly unstable, otherwise it’s getting boring…😂
Sooooo... I just couldn't wait and ordered the rest of my new #UniFi home network. Dream Machine Pro will be joined by USW-Lite-8-PoE switch and 2 U6+ access points...🤡
The router was a breeze to set up and it actually took more time to deal with the media center cabling mess than to configure the thing. Hoping the rest will be as easy.
#UniFi#DreamMachinePro is one expensive toy, but I’m mostly happy with how it works. The setup is very basic, as for a wife reason I couldn’t buy all of the toys at once… We will have to live with basic TP-Link AP setup for a month. Like animals…🤡😱
Had one issue with #Ikea#Tradfri gateway, not working well with vlan tagging but I’ve found a solution!😁
#GoodMorning! It’s #Monday! On one hand I’ve got up at 5, have to deal with sending kids to school and go to work… But on the other hand, the #UniFi#DreamMachinePro will arrive today…😂
Guess who did an emergency secondary #DNS server rebuilding today after something between #flannel, #unifi, and #metallb took out their primairy #DNS cluster. Yup this guy 🤬
I know it’s getting boring and I should be reasonable and go with #Mikrotik… But I guess #UniFi has this Apple-like bling and I’m gonna suffer a bit more with the old setup and eventually cash out on overkill #DreamMachine and some matching APs…🫣
It’s boiling down to #Ubiquiti vs #Mikrotik. #UniFi has more appeal, the app looks nice but I don’t need WiFi router (I already have 3 TP-Link Deco in a mesh) and the prices are hell. #Mikrotik looks about right, but man… WinBox looks like shit and the learning curve is probably steep… SEND HELP!🤡
ich war ja bislang recht zufrieden mit den #unifi accesspoints und auch dem server dazu (auf debian), aber der upgrade von v7 auf v8 lässt mich doch sehr stark zweifeln:
dependency auf unsupported version von mongodb, die in keinem repo ist
die eine libssl1.0.0 voraussetzt, die man sich als *.deb aus einem ubuntu-repo kletzeln muss
dann noch schlecht dokumentierter upgradepfad von der vorigen mongodb-version
im community-forum gibt's ein 3600 zeilen langes shell-script für ./
@technotim is back with @adam to discuss the state of homelab in 2024 🧑🔬
They discuss homelab environments providing a safe place for experimentation and learning, network improvement as a gateway to homelab, trends in network connection speeds, to Unifi or not, storage trends, ZFS configurations, TrueNAS, cameras, home automation, connectivity, routers, pfSense, and more.