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Oct/24

Exposing Homelab

Filed Under Infrastructure, Linux at 7th October 2024 0:01 by

Overview Opening home services to the world wide web is a security concern and technologies such as VPNs have gotten a lot easier to setup. However, there are times where you cannot install a VPN client and I haven’t had … Continue reading →

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Dec/22

Zigbee Firmware List

Filed Under Home Automation at 9th December 2022 17:17 by

A useful list of Zigbee published firmwares are available from: OTA Image Types Firmware versions

06

Dec/21

Raspberry Pi Connect To Hidden SSID

Filed Under IOT, Networking at 6th December 2021 0:01 by

Turns out the Raspberry Pi won’t automatically look for hidden WiFi networks. CLI To enable this edit the file /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf and add scan_ssid=1 inside the network declaration: SD With the SD plugged into another computer other than the Raspberry Pi, … Continue reading →

07

Jun/21

Home Networking Future Plans As Of 2021

Filed Under Networking at 7th June 2021 0:01 by

Overview The setup is fairly stable so anything beyond what has already been achieved are enhancements to our lives better. Multigig In performance category, Wifi is the predominant way home devices are connected. In order to support the increasing speeds, … Continue reading →

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Jul/20

WiFi Features To Consider

Filed Under Networking at 1st July 2020 0:01 by

Overview Here a few considerations I think are worth looking into in your next networking setup. I tried to list things that are less commonly known and marketed but makes living the wireless lifestyle easier. Fast Roaming The ability to … Continue reading →

02

Mar/20

Filtering Websites With Ubiquiti Security Gateway And OpenDNS

Filed Under Networking at 2nd March 2020 0:01 by

Overview The Unifi Security Gateway (USG) can be setup to assign a custom DNS server. The DNS server itself will perform the blocking based on the sites people/devices access. Pre-Requisites In order for everything to work beyond a working Unifi … Continue reading →

02

Dec/19

Pi-hole DNS Filtering

Filed Under Container, Infrastructure, Linux at 2nd December 2019 0:01 by

Overview Pi-hole is a very light weight, DNS filtering server. It’s so light that there are reports it can even run on a Raspberry Pi 1! Example reasons for filtering DNS include blocking ads to filtering out harmful sites (content … Continue reading →

02

Sep/19

Low Signal After Ubiquiti Access Point Firmware 4.0.42.10433

Filed Under Networking at 2nd September 2019 0:01 by

Upgrading from 4.0.21.9965 to 4.0.42.10433 (and beyond) on UAP AC Lite the signal was very poor and kept getting failed to obtain IP address error on multiple devices. It turns out the “Auto-Optimize Network” setting was having the opposite effect … Continue reading →