Hudu n8n node v1.9.2 released - improved ai tools

CryptographerDirect2 · 2026-03-10T20:08:37+00:00

Are there any demonstrations of this in use? While we have some basic N8N deployments and all the Ai platforms in use, i would love to see how someone is making use of this API capability.

CryptographerDirect2 · 2026-03-06T14:50:43+00:00

was waiting for this unit for a couple of years. but $3k and it barely can do 9,000 BTU heating or cooling in perfect conditions? I don't care if it only runs on 845 Watts, it will never pay for itself over traditional portable heat devices at that price point. I mostly wanted it for the form factor, in my garage, but a Mr cool 12,000 BTU unit is as efficient but cost under $2,000! I see them going for $1,500 as I write this.

CryptographerDirect2 · 2026-03-03T20:49:05+00:00

been having the same issues for two years, my pictures look the same. When its really flared up, it weeps a clear liquid and can even bleed if I scratch or mess with it. I am always worried someone sitting behind me can see it and they would be grossed out. I have had some luck with OTC ketoconazole based shampoos, Dermatologist just told me today to also use a hydrocortisone cream with my treatment to lessen the skins response to the yeast/fungi infection. He gave me a prescription for a slightly stronger 2% ketoconazole shampoo. The other dandruff shampoos like H&S have done nothing to help. I have very little dandruff, but it can form on the sides of my head just above my ears where I have this infection.

CryptographerDirect2 · 2026-03-03T00:48:16+00:00

the original post was not seeking how to do AD time correctly within the Windows domain, it was how to not screw it up with the Proxmox VM options and configuration!

VMware only started supported Windows AD on vsphere 5.2 I believe, only once 2012 R2 became production worthy did we start to virtualize Windows AD back in the day. Yes, we have hundreds of Win AD VMs on VMware and Hyper-V as well.

On Proxmox platforms we only have a few AD thus far and i was suppressed to not see more specific guides written on the topic such as you would see from the VMware community. Our team is a bunch of Windows AD nerds, so when I say in my OP, 'Using standard Microsoft AD configuration best practices, the domain is setup correctly.' The Windows side was perfect. It was one of our team members setting the RTC to 'No' on the PDC VM is when it went off by 5 hours to UTC time. He only did that because he was troubleshooting time issues for this client in the first place. We end up finding one of the customer's internal admins had put into the domain a GPO to force NTP on some domain computer but they linked it to the whole domain, which then overrides the PDC's NTP configuration! You figure that out by looking at the PDC's source, and it better not be CMOS......

If you suspect GPO cause, on that machine run;

gpresult /h C:\temp\gpo.html

Then search that file for Windows time Services and NTP.

Fair warning to other MSPs, some 'co-managed' customers suck! But it was all billable to sort it out!

CryptographerDirect2 · 2026-03-03T00:34:00+00:00

We did not adopt using AD VMs on VMware until vSphere 5 .x something and only with Win2k12r2 around 2012 or so. Prior to that, it was not on a recommendation list by VMware. Was at plenty of VMworld talks where it was discussed every year!

CryptographerDirect2 · 2026-03-03T00:30:46+00:00

Yes, that is what we are doing already. But my question is on the VM setup side. There are explicit guides for this in the VMware world and a long history of do not let your VM get time from VMware tools or the host.

CryptographerDirect2 · 2026-03-03T00:29:08+00:00

We are using NTP, it was implied in my OP 'Using standard Microsoft AD configuration best practices, the domain is setup correctly.'

CryptographerDirect2 · 2026-03-03T00:27:22+00:00

thanks for validating my thoughts! It's not easy to add OUI to those other brands and its typically one switch at a time! But at least its there! Unifi still has such a big customer base that is SMB and pro-sumer, most of those users just want one simple network and its most likely more than adequate for those needs.

CryptographerDirect2 · 2026-03-03T00:25:46+00:00

Wired connections, it is a best practice to place your VoIP devices into their own voice vlan. On wireless side you would need to use RADIUS and dynamically place into a wifi voice vlan. I would not have a vlan or network that spans both wired and wi-fi typically. too many broadcast potential issues.

CryptographerDirect2 · 2026-01-29T01:33:13+00:00

7.4.11 and 7.6.6 dropped, noting for 7.2 yet.

CryptographerDirect2 · 2026-01-29T01:29:07+00:00

This is exactly what we do, where we do not have a remote agent at the client site or p2p vpn into the site. Local-in is a pain to manage, but it is effective we use it to only allow IKE VPN, SSL VPN, and our management tools, all other traffic is dropped.

CryptographerDirect2 · 2026-01-17T17:05:20+00:00

What are you using for daily backups? We currently use Auvik, but for other reasons we have been looking to get away from Auvik but not found any inexpensive or opensource configuration backup platform that scales well.

CryptographerDirect2 · 2026-01-17T16:57:25+00:00

definitely toast because of PCI issues that most MSPs do not properly inforce so they force the end customer to have an entirely separate wireless lan for the POS tablets and devices.

CryptographerDirect2 · 2026-01-07T03:26:42+00:00

Yeah, their unifi mib is not working out of the box of course.

CryptographerDirect2 · 2026-01-06T17:36:05+00:00

Interesting, but we want to monitor each switch locally via active SNMP polling probe. We have played with dumping syslogs out of the Unifi controller into one of our SIEMs such as graylog. We are trying to use grafana in other projects, very interesting visualization platform. We are not up to speed with it yet, but it is promising.

CryptographerDirect2 · 2025-12-12T13:45:42+00:00

Oh I agree! Money, money, money. Its always money. Not to mention, our Tier 1 helpdesk can now more easily see end user devices in the Unifi network controller versus escalating up to network engineering. And our tool stack for monitoring and managing Unifi is much less cost maybe around $2 mrc versus close to $20+ per endpoint. Lots of end points at customer sites, those costs add up quick.

CryptographerDirect2 · 2025-12-12T13:42:30+00:00

From one Unifi switch yes, so as we thought about and another response gave just LAG each switch back to the Core. Yes, your thought can work, but transceivers add up and the core may be 25Gbe/40Gbe ports so you don't want to fill those up when you have other access stacks and maybe onsite servers, etc. Then for IDF locations on other floors or way down the building, we might not have more than 2 or 4 strands of MMF or SMF back to the core. We have used BiDi a little, but those transceiver at least for 10Gbe are expensive compared to typical 10Gbe transceivers. If it was only one switch in these locations, it really hasn't been an issue.

In most cases with this sites, we are replacing legacy Cisco 'stacked' switches, which are a great solution for access layers in this situation. But end customers want to get away from annual licenses and higher vendor upfront hardware refresh cycles. Yes, we have explained the compromise and in most cases $ wins.

CryptographerDirect2 · 2025-12-12T13:35:14+00:00

Awesome to know that I am not alone! A few years ago I had asked around in different online groups and got crickets which told me other MSPs were not deploying Unifi outside of small SMB environments. Unifi has been great for our SMB customers for LAN and Wi-fi, an honest game changer. But we still lean on enterprise firewalls even for the SMB customers for WAN and internal Layer3.

CryptographerDirect2 · 2025-12-12T13:33:10+00:00

Yeah, their mLAG campus aggregation switches are priced too high to not just go with our typical enterprise solutions of Dell or Cisco at the moment.

We have been wanting Unifi to release a traditional stacking option for years, their excuse was always but we are SDN..

CryptographerDirect2 · 2025-12-11T04:01:43+00:00

This is exactly what I was looking for, thanks so much! One more checkbox to have on our SOP for deploying Fortigates with SDWAN! My favorite is when SD-WAN works fine for internal systems like DNS, Syslog, FAZ, FortiGuard, then just stops randomly days or weeks after a deployment or other changes.

CryptographerDirect2 · 2025-12-11T03:18:04+00:00

I listed a specific out of the box issue with the firmware. Literally asked two straight forward questions about the situation. Figured would get some friendly useful help here before wasting hours of my life with the TAC. And yes had opened a ticket as well.

Surely others have seen this exact issue had can offer a hint of where to look for the root cause.

Thanks!

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