In a new area of info for this blog bellow is a comparison table of the run time differences across the different releases of Peter Jacksons the Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Something I went looking for online a few…
Home Automation, Unifi
UniFi Protect G4 Doorbell – External Chime
ENV: Unifi Cloudkey Gen2 Plus running Protect; Unifi G4 Doorbell; Node-RED; old 433 mhz doorbell and chime box, old shelly1 smart relay. An Australian alternative to the UP-Chime (Unifi Protect Chime Box) / cheaper alternative especially if you replaced your…
VPN, WireGuard, iOS, pfSense
Road-Warrior Style WireGuard VPN – iOS to pfSense 2.6 (ipv4/ipv6)
ENV: pfSense 2.6.0-RELEASE (amd64) as a KVM Guest on Proxmox 7.2iOS 15/16 with the Official WireGuard App Install On the latest pfsense install WireGuard through the System > Package Manger Menu. Package is “WireGuard”. pfsense package version used in this…
Limiters, Traffic Shaping, pfSense
Class-Based Weighted Limiters in pfSense 2.6.0
ENV: pfSense 2.6.0-RELEASE (amd64) as a KVM Guest on Proxmox 7.2Goal: Class-Based Limiters to manage traffic shaping on the WAN. Attempting to set priorities for each class whilst still allowing any-one client to use the entirety of the WAN Bandwidth…
Info, Pi-hole, pfSense
Home/Business DNS Resolving in 2022 aka Modern DNS Security
DNS Security Modern DNS Security on a small network can be divided into two areas of defense.The first is DNSSEC (DNS Security Extensions) used to ensuring that resolved results can be trusted and the second is DNS Transport security, usually…
CentOS, Pi-hole, Proxmox, pfSense
Pi-hole on a business network
(Or a home network.) ENV: Pi-Hole 5 on a Centos 7 LXC Container on Proxmox VE 6Skipping the original home of Pi-hole here (RPI) and going straight to desktop series processors on proxmox for reduced latency and better performance when…
Zabbix
Zabbix Proxies (Proxy’s?)
Zabbix Proxy Servers are a useful addon to zabbix that extend the monitoring capabilities of a server to remote sites.The three main reasons I believe they are useful are: WAN/Link Efficiency. Instead of having say 10 zabbix agents at a…
Auto Electrical
Narva 54427 (54427BL) Battery Fuse – Some Photos and a Description of the Operation
After some research into battery fuses for a pair of new 12v lithium (LiFePO4) batteries I couldn’t decide between an ANL fuse system or what Narva refers to as a “Bold Down battery Fuse” (Also know as a Marine Rated Battery…
Solar Systems, Zabbix, pfSense
Monitoring a solar system with Zabbix 5.2
ENV: Zabbix 5.2.6 (edit: now 5.4.4 with recent release) Server on rhel8 eq, Zabbix Proxy 5.2.6 on rhel7 eq, Zabbix Agent 5.2.6 on same host as proxy. Sungrow SG8K-D (AU) Solar Inverter. With a heavily modified solariot script for querying…
Unifi, VR, Wifi
[Fix] Unable to Cast Oculus Quest 2 on Unifi Wifi
TL;DR Enable “Multicast Enhancement” in Unifi under Wifi > Network > Advanced Ubiquity Unifi Wi-Fi Access Points with Oculus Quest 2 VR Headsets. Since purchase I have only bee able to get casting working once and I’m now assuming it…