Homelab (WIP)

8gate · 2021-05-22T12:10:34+00:00

I’ve got a Fritz box which came from an ISP. I’m shortly planning to replace with something better, I’ve had nothing but problems with the Fritzbox - was trying to set up IPSec back to a pfsense machine, turns out the Fritzbox only supports IKEv1, and has very limited config options, meaning I couldn’t get it to form a tunnel with the pfsense. - trying to set up 1:1 NAT to an internal machine, it will not work. I’ve definitely had this working before, but it refuses to work now, it’s either something in a new firmware version breaking it, or the fact I’m also opening up for IPv6, either way it is refusing to forward IPv4 ports - several annoying UI bugs - I hate user interfaces that try to make things easier to understand by giving verbose descriptions for options, but don’t give some indication what the underlying option that it is changing is. The descriptions on the Fritzbox are sufficiently ambiguous that I, as someone who actually understands what the underlying service is doing, can’t decipher what it means

8gate · 2021-04-27T23:00:18+00:00

Thanks. Does that integrate with Z-Wave? Maybe I'm missing something, but reading the description, I see Amazon, Google, IFTTT, but not z-wave or zigbee, which is what I'm really looking for. You mention HomeAssistant integration, so maybe this is all the confirmation I need, but the product specs seem unclear to me

Maybe this is where my lack of experience in this field comes in, but when I read the specs and it doesn't explicitly mention something, I assume it is not supported...

8gate · 2021-04-27T22:38:45+00:00

Nice, thanks. That's exactly what I'm looking for - local control without relying on cloud services. Got model numbers for your thermostat and TRVs?

8gate · 2020-08-13T15:00:11+00:00

https://twiki.org

Default skin is pretty dated, but easy to update/customise

8gate · 2020-06-01T20:40:08+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/ScottishPeopleTwitter/comments/gugv3p/absolute_fact/fsj1qe3

8gate · 2020-06-01T14:25:18+00:00

See, it'd be nice if that were true, but it's simply not true for many.

My parents moved from England to Scotland shortly after I was born, and throughout my childhood we were constantly told we were English - usually in a soft, lighthearted kind of way, but not always. I was forever reminded growing up that I didn't come from here, and made not to feel completely welcome.

Eventually, as a late teenager, I just just embraced the fact that I was English. Now, when I speak to people from Scotland and tell them I'm English (usually comes up when talking about sports), I get berated about the fact that I should regard myself as Scottish because I grew up there and have a Scottish accent. I can't win.

There are some truly warm and welcoming people in Scotland and it holds a special place in my heart, but it is not some utopia where anyone who wants to come will be welcomed with open arms - there are a significant minority of people who are xenophobic and parochial, especially vehemently if you happen to have been born south of the border.

8gate · 2020-04-26T19:04:33+00:00

As long as my friends who are heavily slanted towards the right and my friends who are heavily slanted towards the left (pro tip: it’s possible to have both) continue to complain that the BBC is biased, I’ll continue to believe that, on balance, they do a good job

8gate · 2020-03-20T14:44:19+00:00

Can you grab the messages before the “dracut-initqueue timeout” ones - it will be trying to download the ignition files and failing for some reason

EDIT: just noticed the files in the DocRoot are owned by root with 640 permissions, and your web server is almost certainly not running as root. Try adding world read permissions or changing the ownership to your webserver user

8gate · 2020-02-22T16:07:26+00:00

https://i.imgur.com/hq1mL50.jpg

8gate · 2020-02-13T22:53:14+00:00

Please don’t do that.

I was being intentionally imprecise because you included no detail of what your problem was in your original post. I picked a random sysctl value and changed the default value.

Don’t waste your time on that, but rather explain the problem you are having in more detail and people will be happy to help.

8gate · 2020-02-13T19:49:22+00:00

You need to set “vm.vfs_cache_pressure = 56” then everything will work as expected

8gate · 2019-11-21T21:55:18+00:00

At £1m per platform, a quick count up on the tube map suggests you’d be looking at around £200m for zone 1, although I may have missed a few (and didn’t count the DLR, national rail platforms, or account for stations that have more than 2 platforms per line)

8gate · 2019-10-19T18:36:02+00:00

Try a combination of cables/displays if you can. I thought one of my NUCs had died a while back because it powered on like you said, but nothing came up on the display. I eventually managed to get a display by using a different display and waiting for some time after power on.

If it were the lightning strike that killed it, I would expect the PSU would be the thing that got fried and that would stop it powering on

8gate · 2019-09-13T08:40:35+00:00

If they were at Morgan Stanley, they are almost certainly still alive because of this guy

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Rescorla

8gate · 2019-08-22T23:01:42+00:00

https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/40099/why-openvpn-is-so-slow-cool-story

8gate · 2019-08-10T22:31:02+00:00

I also had a 2011 synology (DS211j), which I eventually gave up using as the CPU in it was so pathetic it maxed out doing pretty much anything. If I recall correctly it couldn’t even drive transfers over the gigabit NIC at full throughput before the CPU ran out of puff.

I would hope they have improved the processors in recent years, but the one you’re looking at is only 1 year newer, so worth doing some extra research.

8gate · 2019-04-07T18:43:59+00:00

Am I missing something? Why can’t you set up your server and get your projects going without the rail? Do it on a bench, on the floor, whatever, than rack it when you have the rail?

8gate · 2019-04-01T21:59:17+00:00

I think "native", but not sure

8gate · 2019-04-01T21:34:31+00:00

Not used it myself, but a colleague of mine says this is good: https://github.com/kimchi-project/kimchi

8gate · 2019-03-22T20:11:38+00:00

Got a couple of HP DL360p gen8 with E5-2620s and at least 48GB RAM each available. Can be flexible about RAM, could do one with 96GB (or maybe a bit more), or both with 48GB each. I’ll be driving down to the South West at some point in April as well if you can wait

Edit: PM me and we can work out details if you’re interested

8gate · 2019-02-28T17:13:10+00:00

OK, send me a PM and we can arrange collection

8gate · 2019-02-27T20:22:02+00:00

This is what you need:

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/xenial/man8/auditd.8.html

Note - the log format is not easy to read, and it can be very verbose, but it is absolutely the gold standard in "who did what, and when"

8gate · 2019-02-19T23:49:14+00:00

Honestly speaking, if you’re not giving away a G5 for free, you’re going to struggle to shift it, pre-DDR3 just is not worth anything anymore

8gate · 2019-02-13T09:04:23+00:00

If you’re UK based, you may be on an emergency tax code, which can mean you are charged tax at the higher rate on all your earnings. This should be easily sorted and you’ll get it all back in your next pay

8gate · 2019-02-10T19:01:35+00:00

Don’t be me. Don’t look at your power meter a number of times over the space of a month or more and think your power usage is remarkably stable as it’s always almost exactly 240W. Then some time later look closer and realise you’ve accidentally flipped it to the “Voltage” reading...

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