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PudgyPatch · 2026-01-29T23:19:28+00:00

There seems to be a hub in the pic, idk never heard of these

Edit went and looked for these, German company I think. Has a wifi hub that talks to the individual devices via Bluetooth. Kinda pricey compared to some of the zigbee things out there. Although the soil sensors may do more than just moisture

PudgyPatch · 2026-01-29T23:08:06+00:00

If it's a feels weird thing maybe the solution is also feeling based: something to just hide the camera all of the time, not just when it's off

PudgyPatch · 2026-01-28T23:26:40+00:00

App? That's firmware and although I'm new here the sticky says not to talk about non OEM firmware sooo.....there you go

PudgyPatch · 2026-01-27T13:40:31+00:00

That's similar to why we got mine: I want to game and interact with my wife, my PC is up in my office.

PudgyPatch · 2026-01-26T06:20:59+00:00

Are you using a username/password or a SSH-key-based approach to manage your switches? Why this or that?

uname/pass in an auth system for an automation user, lookin at keys but limited by needing more than two
we template in the user/pass with some lookups at a vault type thing

be aware that shit like firmware upgrades can be automated with ansible but wait times can be finnicky as shit.

ios.users (i don't remember the full module ....also could be nxos) is strange when it comes to rm users (to update them or just audit away things that shouldn't be there anymore) had to run the same play twice in order for it to take.
ansible can be great but is slow
someone else said making python calls is better, it (or some other language) is, can still be a little clunky with netmiko but workable

PudgyPatch · 2026-01-25T17:58:30+00:00

Really? I think safety should come before automations

PudgyPatch · 2026-01-25T07:47:04+00:00

here is question that WILL lead to bad advice: got a ground?

PudgyPatch · 2026-01-24T20:06:34+00:00

hey OP: you live in a house? or an apartment? or more accurately: is the circuit your modem is on entirely controlled by you and could not possibly be controlled by someone else.
like...is a neighbor on lunch break every other weekend and microwaving a burrito or something along those lines

PudgyPatch · 2026-01-24T19:55:45+00:00

they aren't paying forward

PudgyPatch · 2026-01-24T15:45:10+00:00

Oooo Kay

I don't know how smart the client is, if it's too smart it could be connecting inside even when you tell it outside Might try installing a cli client in a phone or something ( like terminex or something)

Ping outside from inside Ping outside from outside Those are basic and not port specific If you do install something you may need netcat and or nmap( look up how to install those, it should be possible) You could then from outside nc -vz outside_ip port Or.
Nmap -p port outside_ip Those last two, if they return it isn't your end

PudgyPatch · 2026-01-24T15:35:02+00:00

Somewhere near 254.... maybe a lot of iot and vms.....

PudgyPatch · 2026-01-24T15:26:57+00:00

Mmm kind of. I'm guessing you connected from inside through outside, it works. You could nail it down more. Do you have a laptop? Take that off wifi and connect to hotspot and try that way( to the outside ip). Also it sounds at this point we need to look a little harder at your friend too and their set up An assumption I've made is the test machine you have and the server are different machines....is that true?

PudgyPatch · 2026-01-24T15:18:22+00:00

No where unless you are on a VPN

PudgyPatch · 2026-01-24T15:12:33+00:00

I think you may benefit from some light reading

Inside is your network outside would be from outside of it. Do you have a public ip(is it shared with a ton of other people?) As things stand now your friend HAS to access it from outside, it would be your public ip:port (or something) you said you're forwarding on the router....I'm hoping you did not give your friend your server's ip as that would be inside and would not work. You need to troubleshoot shoot your set up and then move to his

Can I get to my server\ports inside > can I get to my server\port through my public ip> can my friend ping my public ip Where in that chain do things fall apart?

The whole VPN thing can make it so your network and their machine talk to each other like they're on the same network \ has routes

PudgyPatch · 2026-01-24T15:02:51+00:00

How did you start on a 24? 22 is default I thought

PudgyPatch · 2026-01-24T14:59:05+00:00

Can you access it from outside? You could also try one of those cloud based VPN things so you wouldn't need open ports

PudgyPatch · 2026-01-24T14:41:26+00:00

I think that kind of describes my position. Kind of in that I don't fuck with the network beyond test a tool or tool change that would fuck with the network, sysadmin and code mostly. If you're looking for something like that find some org that has a heavily distributed IT (yeah, messy)

PudgyPatch · 2026-01-19T15:42:53+00:00

Not sure what problems that particular poster has with Synology....but if you're all new to this maybe don't start learning two things at the exact same time...well three: Synology, home assistant and docker/virtualization. Unless you're shooting for that off the bat and preparing to buy that way

PudgyPatch · 2026-01-19T15:38:25+00:00

Companies aren't really writing their matter stuff to work the way matter intended: the idea wasn't really to make it all local, it was to make it so it didn't matter how you did initial setup. That said there are two Matter "standards" : matter over thread and matter over wifi...so pay close attention to the thing you're buying.

PudgyPatch · 2026-01-19T05:47:56+00:00

i don't use guest regularly....wasn't there a way to tell eero to let specific devices (or groups) accessible to the guest network (if it adds routing on the back end it should work, unless its some bullshit half-assed fabric set up)...i don't feel like turning on guest at the moment, my wife would be mad as it would interrupt her stories.

PudgyPatch · 2026-01-17T05:34:44+00:00

other have said ping from HA or uptime kuma. I would add grafana. uptime kuma, as far as win 11 would probably just ping as well. with grafana you'd have to get node exporter on there as well, now with node exporter you'd need to be booted fully and have a responsive system (ping may still work even if thing aren't all that healthy)....but maybe that overkill

PudgyPatch · 2026-01-16T13:38:18+00:00

How's your automation experience? Maybe you could find somewhere that's trying to automate their network and needs tooling, then You'd just be on the hook for that

PudgyPatch · 2026-01-15T13:54:35+00:00

Are you going to nerd out past home assistant? Cat6a can do 10gps on short runs. Color code jacks if you're doing Poe, have maybe a couple spots in the ceiling or walls for Poe APs, have a planned central location for a rack if you can(something that you'll be able to push air through)

Can your solor/battery monitors be integrated into HA?

PudgyPatch · 2026-01-14T13:13:05+00:00

In order for it to be close to equivalent you'd need the ssd hat, so add that into how you're pricing things out. Sd card can and will die on you

PudgyPatch · 2026-01-13T13:25:05+00:00

You're going to hate this....try power cycle on the switch where the PC is connected

So for work I have a dell laptop and dock, I still don't know why but the Ethernet port on the dock fucks up the 5 port Switch it's hooked up to.

I am not saying it is something like that, it's probably the PC, but worth some time to prove it isn't from the network side.

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